Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Just 10 miles south of D.C. in Alexandria, Va. is Hollin Hills, a 450-home community famous for its Mid-Century Modern houses. From its website: Winner of many design awards, Hollin [...]
Attendees at the 2008 Garden Blogger Fling in 2008. I'm in the front row at the far left. Ranter Elizabeth Licata is third from right in the front row. [...]
Here I am with another call-to-action post. This time, it’s for the Garden Bloggers Fling, held this year in Madison, Wisconsin, June 23–26. (Check out the link; there's plenty of [...]
As I labored last month to organize my 118,000+ photos, my love for one particular Eastern garden was renewed - that of Andrew Bunting, currently the VP of public gardens [...]
I needed a respite from doom-scrolling the news, and browsing my photos of gardens in Portland, Oregon actually helped! I was in that fair city for the GardenBlogger Fling in 2014 [...]
Back in 2009 I was in Los Angeles for my nephew's wedding and got to spend a whole day with Shirley Bovshow, who invited me to see her garden, feed [...]
Recently, Ranter Allen Bush drew our attention to an NPR segment on the problem with palm trees in Florida. In Miami Beach, they make up almost 60% of the tree [...]
It is winter now. Not yet snowy, though. When I go out in the garden with my camera I find that there are several photographs that I take, [...]
Harry watches through the screen door. I may have mentioned that I'm not into Christmas, but I am saddened in early January to see decorations taken down and [...]
In my latest garden video I bare it all - my years of really bad ideas for screening a really bad view, and some mistaken plant choices, too. But you're [...]
Autumn may be the most wonderful time to enjoy the effects of light in the garden. The sun is lower and softer, and the result can be amazing. We have [...]
Any weeping katsura is not only proof that God exists but one will also answer any other hard questions you might have. ‘Amazing Grace’ weeping katsura, however, does all that and also makes you rich.
