Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Set for a small daytime NYE gathering Is there anyone else whose tolerance for frigid temps has risen significantly this winter? In the cold climate zones of the [...]
The symbolic promise of a new year is not enough for me this time around. Normally happy to raise my glass and cheerfully throw out The Old as the clock [...]
To walk through a young garden in winter is a courageous act when the garden is your own, and the budget, diminutive. We forget how much frosting the active growing [...]
These pots in my back garden used to contain bold-colored annuals that grew surprisingly large - particularly the red Iresine here with sweet potato vine. Then the deer found them [...]
Time to update my bird bath post, which declared the bath to be awaiting use by actual birds. I had temporarily moved it away from the house and close to [...]
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 [...]
