Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
One view, four seasons.
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, [...]
After Christmas, Who Else Decorates the Garden for Winter?
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 [...]
New garden video: after 9 years of co-op rules and bad ideas, a happy ending
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 [...]
Garden light
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 [...]
Weepers Are the Pedal Steel Guitar of the Garden
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.
My New Video of Lakeside Garden in Spring
I recently wrote about the Horticultural Society of Maryland visiting my garden and two others near me, and included the link to a video of one of them. Well, I'm [...]
More Beach-Town Garden Hits and Misses
We've come to Episode 3 of "Judging the Gardens of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware," apparently a regular feature since it started in 2013 and continued with more hits and misses in 2017. [...]
Maryland Hort Society Comes to Visit. Now Check out their Virtual Talks.
Mary Jo, Diana and Nancy in my front garden In June of 2019 I reported on the Horticultural Society of Maryland's latest garden tours in Baltimore, including one [...]
Gardens, Homes and Monuments of Richmond’s Monument Avenue
Nowhere in the country has the existence of statues honoring the Confederacy been more hotly debated than in the former capital itself - Richmond, Virginia, with its iconic statues along [...]
On Video – My Spring 2021 Townhouse Garden
Last fall I made this before-and-after video of my "Front Garden Make-Over with Vines and Paint." I submitted it to my town's local access TV station and won second prize [...]
Be Gentle with the Land
Garden Making: - For some people in the UK making a new garden means getting a designer in, or at least thinking radically about what to keep and what to [...]
Losing a Garden
Some close friends of ours have sold their house. Well, yes, of course, they are entitled to, it’s theirs. But we are finding it very sad. How many gardeners [...]