Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
One of the ways (there were many) I was initially stumped when I started turning two fields into a garden was how to make paths in it. It wasn’t [...]
Google images for "Garden Ornaments" Does a well planted, well designed, garden need ornaments? You could say that gardens are pretty enough. In fact, we refer to aesthetically [...]
It's a sombre time in the UK as most of you will be aware. Perhaps time for us gardeners to think about reflection in our gardens. Whatever various worthy people [...]
My Takoma Park, Md. home in 1985, the year I bought it. My recent post about the attractive fence my next-door neighbors installed included a gratuitous but ardent [...]
There was an illuminating Patti Smith Instagram post on August 19th entitled: “This is weeding.” The poet, musician, author, and activist had returned from a European concert tour and [...]
During the first years in my townhouse, this was the dull-dull backdrop of my front garden, with old grey siding, black shutters and metal chairs, and a forest green umbrella. [...]
In small townhouse gardens like mine, I've found that fences not only make good neighbors - they help create "garden rooms," the sense of enclosure that makes you want to [...]
Over the past couple months, I’ve been more of a garden gawker than usual. In June, I was one of a group of garden communicators touring private gardens in Madison, [...]
It took a while for me to realize that almost all the gardens we were visiting in and around Madison, Wisconsin, had one feature in common. It finally sunk in [...]
A while back I ranted about the inclusion of my alma mater, Ohio's Oberlin College, in its list of Most Beautiful College Campuses. So let's pause and ask what makes [...]
I'd venture to say the vast majority of Americans want their home landscape to be "low-maintenance." Indeed, as low as possible! When I was garden -coaching, at least 95 percent [...]
