Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Recently, Ranter Allen Bush drew our attention to an NPR segment on the problem with palm trees in Florida. In Miami Beach, they make up almost 60% of the tree [...]
It is winter now. Not yet snowy, though. When I go out in the garden with my camera I find that there are several photographs that I take, [...]
Harry watches through the screen door. I may have mentioned that I'm not into Christmas, but I am saddened in early January to see decorations taken down and [...]
In my latest garden video I bare it all - my years of really bad ideas for screening a really bad view, and some mistaken plant choices, too. But you're [...]
Autumn may be the most wonderful time to enjoy the effects of light in the garden. The sun is lower and softer, and the result can be amazing. We have [...]
Any weeping katsura is not only proof that God exists but one will also answer any other hard questions you might have. ‘Amazing Grace’ weeping katsura, however, does all that and also makes you rich.
I recently wrote about the Horticultural Society of Maryland visiting my garden and two others near me, and included the link to a video of one of them. Well, I'm [...]
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 [...]
