Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Right now, here in fall, this is when all the many flaws in my garden are on glorious, full on, full frontal display. Proudly, they flaunt themselves, mocking me to [...]
In lieu of organizing an in-person garden tour this year, I've gone virtual, making or helping make 8 video "tours" so far, with just one more to go. At first [...]
Early February. Pam Spaulding photo. I squeaked by in high school chemistry doing little more than fiddling around with the Bunsen burner so it would throw flames like [...]
UPDATE: This is not what I had in mind: In a recent post I used this photo of what I declared was my final design for the little nook out [...]
My local informal gardening group WAS going to put on a garden tour, so when that couldn't I began experimenting with virtual tours - online but with the option that local [...]
As the gardening team at Buffalo’s Darwin Martin House—really a campus with seven structures on it—enters its second year of planting and maintaining the original landscape Frank Lloyd Wright planned [...]
Thank you all for your many color suggestions for my front garden, in comments to this post. I love those colors, too! But I had to choose, and for an [...]
Before and after in less than a week! Taking me away from the horrors of my newsfeed this week has been transforming the look of my Greenbelt, Maryland [...]
I suppose most suburban gardeners have some mammals to deal with in their garden - squirrels, rabbits and deer being the top nuisances in my area, so far. That is, [...]
The informal Gardening Boosters group that I helped launch in January planned to have all sorts of in -person gardening events here in Old Greenbelt, Maryland. When those ideas became [...]
Nook garden in 2012 Back in 2012, the year I bought my New Deal rowhouse in Greenbelt, I had no idea what to do with this space between [...]
Neither sorrow nor fear has diminished home gardening’s potential to heal during this pandemic spring. Chris Beytes of Grower Talks, the respected commercial trade magazine, has been keeping tabs [...]
