Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
This was the view of my back garden, where some recent shrub- and tree-buying was really paying off, small space be damned. My one perennial that still looks good is [...]
This is my third and last post about Salt Lake City, which I visited for the garden communicators annual conference in September. I live in a town that's famous in [...]
I'm here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op's [...]
This green and pleasant land (from the train) Whether or not you prefer British garden writing or the Stateside variety (I just like good writing wherever it originates), [...]
Think this is Little Quickfire If I wasn’t part of a huge garden tour every year, I wouldn’t make too big a deal of plants that don’t perform [...]
Back in 2013 I wrote approvingly of DC's "Phantom Planter" and his planting of flowers in public spaces without permission - guerrilla-style. But with his latest attempt to beautify the [...]
I’ll never consider attempting a rock garden again. Not after visiting the superb spaces of Denver, Fort Collins, and Boulder, all part of a recent garden bloggers’ trip that some [...]
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 [...]
