People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
Millie Ellis, the quintessential avant-gardener When Mildred Rose Ellis was a girl growing up in the Village of Batavia, Ohio, her family lived in an old schoolhouse. [...]
Wild, cold winds are buffeting the garden today in one of spring’s temperamental fits of pique. It’s a good day to sit down with a book and enjoy some flower [...]
I have been piddling along on the Lenten rose slow lane for years. My garden is not well stocked with new breeding. Possession of my old hellebores—with downward facing [...]
Curious why there's a big feature in this recent issue of New Yorker magazine about garden writer Ruth Stout? Maybe it's because her three gardening books ("How to have a [...]
Honestly, I stopped reading gardening books years ago, switching to skimming when I needed to. But the new book Garden to the Max by writer Teresa Woodard and photographer Bob [...]
The Slow Flowers movement has finally arrived in Buffalo. I never thought it would happen. We love our gardens and our flowers here, but have always had a fairly traditional [...]
I have two Kentucky gardens. Both are a privilege and a burden. One is in the city, the other in the country. I can’t work either of them with [...]
Film festival attendees touring the PlantPop time-lapse studio; Clayton Leverett, Time-Lapse Photographer, is speaking. In last week's post about the PlantPop film production company and film festival I [...]
Screen shot of PlantPop's home page today. I recently attended the 6th Annual PlantPop Film Festival in Norfolk, Va. and I have a report! So first, I imagine [...]
I have had epiphanies in parks around the world, and, more than once, I have been blessed in the Gospel Tent at The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. I [...]
I had a very dear friend, Mary, who has since passed away. She was a chemist but her real love was botany. The reason I write about her here involves [...]
Our annuals first arrive at our house every spring as garden visitors, then became guests, even friends. They form the backdrop, the understory, in many a fine landscape, including ours. [...]
