Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Robyn Brown, a Nashville buddy and talented gardener, told me last week that her garden is under siege by armadillos. I was all ears. The nine-banded armadillos are rooting [...]
Landscape architect/blogger Thomas Rainer is one of my favorite designers, something I may have mentioned before on this blog. Gardenblogger Margaret Roach is a Rainer fan, too. She sought him out for [...]
Happy Independence Day, Americans! Have fun, stay safe, et cetera. Now on to our topic - flags in the garden and their impact on others. Take my neighbor's Old Glory [...]
Last Saturday it suddenly occurred to me that after weeks of moving plants around and the construction of a privacy screen, my garden was finally looking good. And it would stay [...]
Kurt Bluemel, Panicum Warrior Sorry to deliver sad news. Kurt Bluemel Der Gras König -- The King of Grasses -- died yesterday evening after a brief illness. The [...]
Last weekend I returned to my former home town, Takoma Park, MD, for their spring tour and left with one big take-away - that good-looking gardens are easier to achieve [...]
As the garden wakes up, I find I spend more time in that stock-still, mesmerized state that, let's face it, is the point of all this garden work. Though planting, [...]
Image from the Archive of American Gardens I'm not sure I totally grasp the content of the Smithsonian's Archive of American Gardens but here's what I gather so [...]
Since I moved to Idaho, my sister and mom and their friends and my friends have been generously donating plants to fill my new garden beds. (Gardeners are the nicest [...]
My understanding of a place dawns slowly. Occasionally I design a garden, and it is a ponderous and effortful activity because it doesn't come easily to me. This has been [...]
This is the dominant native plant community in Southern California. It is beautiful, but it is not a garden. I am ruining the world. Because I like pretty [...]
Big rock adding textural interest (and diverse lichens) to a xeriscaped parking strip. Not the kind that goes on your finger. We're talking boulders here, folks. Specifically, one [...]
