People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
Walking into Dotty and Berry Woodson's greenhouse is like walking into heaven, but thankfully you don't have to perish to get there. You do need to make an appointment or [...]
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane. Of the many types of gardeners a [...]
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. [...]
