Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
My favorites of all the gardens we saw on the Gardenblogger Fling in Toronto weren't grand - anything but. They were the small funky ones on the just-offshore islands known collectively as Toronto Islands, which [...]
I recently attended the Georgetown Garden Tour in DC's toniest neighborhood to find out how the other half gardens spends money on their yards, and naturally I have some comments [...]
It would be a stretch to call our reconstituted former hay field a prairie. What we have is a beautiful contrivance—a make-believe prairie. July 1, 2014 Contrary to [...]
Spring is always a whirlwind. Here are some things I've been doing lately in my 2-year-old garden. Feeling grateful and extremely lucky that the previous owner of this land planted [...]
Guest Rant by Lori Hawkins Just as Dante identified the seven deadly sins in his Inferno, so we will explore the cardinal sins of the landscaping world. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, [...]
Mullein is one of my favorite plants to grow because it attracts seed-eating birds, including chickadees and downy woodpeckers, in winter. It also makes dramatic natural sculptures. Winter [...]
Why is it that, after a snowfall, the landscape looks so much better, even if nothing has changed underneath? Snow offers the opportunity to view your garden with new perspective [...]
Before I get to the confessions, a short tour of the four fabulous DC-area gardens open to the public through the Garden Conservancy's Open Gardens Program. (And thanks to local [...]
I confess: I keep a lawn. Call me heathen. I know lawns are environmentally suspect, but mine doesn't ask for much. I've applied nothing from the periodic table that screams [...]
It's time for an update on my courtyard garden. The thrill of saying that hasn't dimmed after a year, and I imagine I will still be delighted about it if [...]
I'm home from visiting Pittsburgh, where I attended the big Garden Writers Symposium, and thankfully I returned with a few photos to post here. (After posting here for eight years this [...]
Part of the fun of creating a garden is trying unfamiliar plants, like this silver-leaved horehound (Marrubium rotundifolium) mingling with winecups (the red-purple blooming Callirhoe involucrata, an old favorite) [...]
