People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
Ed Snodgrass is best known for the green roof plants he grows at his nursery in Maryland and his green-roof consulting around the world. After first visiting his "farm" in [...]
I am often grateful when I visit community gardens where there are generous gardeners willing to share and who follow a few rules. Where there is a scarcity of [...]
I am a bit player in the legacy of a nasturtium dynasty. My mother, Molly Bush, was our matriarch. She sowed annual nasturtium seeds devotionally every Good Friday. This [...]
I visit an artist at his home studio The bus you see above is one of several eye-popping pieces of vehicular art that I've been gawking at for years, whenever [...]
I recently visited the Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, not far from me in the Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge. What looks like a military bunker houses a project of [...]
Pam Harper died last week in her home in Seaford, Virginia at the age of 93 after a short illness; and the horticultural community who knew her and loved her [...]
I was happy to hear Allan Armitage a few weeks ago at Louisville’s wonderful Waterfront Botanical Gardens. Dr. A will take us on a journey, one that starts with [...]
I hightailed it down to Asheville a few weeks ago to catch up on lost time. I hadn’t seen Heather Spencer or Charles Murray for a few years. I [...]
The central Kentucky dogwoods had barely finished blooming in early May when horticulturist, author, and speaker Abra Lee tipped me off to Camille T. Dungy’s new book, Soil: The [...]
From model to chicken-raising houseplant expert. If our readers know anything about Summer Rayne Oakes, it's probably from her popular blog about growing 1,100 houseplants in her apartment. [...]
Prince Charles visiting Common Good City Farm in Washington, DC. It's coronation time in Britain and some of you may be getting up at 5 tomorrow morning (or [...]
Ah, April. Almost time to begin visiting other gardeners’ dreams come to life. Minding your manners when visiting another’s garden should come naturally to gardeners. After all, garden etiquette [...]
