People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
Mid-January is not a particularly good time for an angry, my David Austin roses died, “Give em’ hell” Garden Rant. Our fallen leaves in Indiana have barely begun to [...]
I was saddened to learn of the recent death of Bob Weir, longtime guitarist of the Grateful Dead, at age 78. Yesterday I called my friend the raconteur, and [...]
What to make of our just-installed Christmas tree, and of memories carefully wrapped and stored away in cardboard boxes and plastic crates in a basement until dutifully hung on [...]
There was a time, not long ago, when there was an abundance of live garden radio shows. Listener call-in questions were a feature for those ready to dig in. [...]
My first encounter with the American smoketree came at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1978. The fall leaf color was so spectacular that it warranted an October [...]
The news got you down? Well, for the hate-filled times we're living in, this gardening story may help. It does for me. It's about gardening/farming entrepreneurs Kevin Graham and Dragan [...]
I was not ready for the news that came a few months ago of Janet Draper’s retirement. For 27 years Janet has been the magical conductor of the Smithsonian’s [...]
Timothy Morton is a professional gardener who doesn’t like being hemmed in. He is also a musician who doesn’t blow his horn, an accomplished actor who shuns [...]
Look who I found giving talks and webinars for the Wild Ones national website - Larry Weaner - horticulturist, top designer of meadows in the Eastern U.S. That's where I [...]
I have favorite gardens for reasons that include history, design, variety, enchantment, sense of place, purpose and sentiment. Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, in Crestwood, Kentucky, checks all the boxes, [...]
Plants for sale at Lillian Farms. Like most gardeners in my area, I'm still mourning the 2019 closing of our favorite garden center after 89 great years. (Its [...]
I own rather too many gardening books. In excess of 800 to be precise. Most are books about plants and practical gardening, although I have a healthy number of books [...]
