Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
So, OK, I’m lucky; not every driveway offers 300 feet of "Welcome Home." I understand that. What I’m talking about here is concept; the need to plant something special at [...]
Yeah, that’s about describes my Spring. Yours? It all started with a misguided nod to appear on our Township’s Garden Tour. Did this sometime last Winter. I’d been drinking. When [...]
I've become a fan of the Maryland Horticultural Society, which attracts big-name speakers and puts on the very best garden tour in the Mid-Atlantic, if you ask me. So I [...]
Why not daylilies? They deserve daylilies. As soon as I see them pull out the cell phone, I’m on my guard. Sometimes that angst ebbs when it is [...]
It’s hard to say this, but I’ve been guilty of taking my Dad for granted. But, in all honesty, it’s his own fault. He has made it awfully easy. He [...]
Are they here yet? Are they here yet? Reblooming 'Major Wheeler' coral honeysuckle provides hummingbird attracting flowers from very early spring to very late in fall. [...]
Maybe I'm a control freak. Maybe I'm just not very smart. Quite possibly, I'm just too far down the tracks to back up and switch to another set of rails. [...]
Greenbelt's Roosevelt Center, by Alexis Beaver Seeing Elizabeth's snow photos of Buffalo made me want to share nice snow shots from MY part of the world, so here goes. [...]
Baltimore may be best known nationally for its murder rate and The Wire on HBO, but in horticulture circles it's known for plants and gardens. So I happily signed up for [...]
The townhouse I moved into 6 years ago came with a rather junky spot just beyond my back yard, marring my view from the house, porch and garden. So began [...]
My good luck began this spring with a three-year-old thoroughbred named Justify. I was smitten the first moment I saw the beautiful chestnut-colored horse walk onto the Churchill Downs track [...]
In the end it came down to a pair of ornamental tin chickens, both of them, no doubt, created in a distant and dangerous land soon to be confronting more [...]
