People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
Post-election, I wrote "First Lady Jill Biden and the White House Gardens," listing everything my research unearthed about Dr. Biden as a gardener or garden-lover, and speculating on whether she [...]
Joanne and Clyde on a slow-moving freight train in 2013. Proto-punk rocker Iggy Pop and gardening aren’t usually conjoined, but Pop’s song The Passenger could be a [...]
Johanna Dominguez of Put a Plant on It, planted this terrarium for me, my second. Happy new year! I’m celebrating by embracing a new terrarium. I’m somewhat confident [...]
Johanna Dominguez behind the counter at Put a Plant On it (summer photo) While it’s widely acknowledged that gardening exploded during 2020—as much a result of the safety [...]
Otis Knox in his 2018 sunflower field. I would not have batted an eye at Mr. Stripey if Otis Knox had not insisted it was the best [...]
As the gardening team at Buffalo’s Darwin Martin House—really a campus with seven structures on it—enters its second year of planting and maintaining the original landscape Frank Lloyd Wright planned [...]
There remains a certain snobbishness about annuals, partly because some perceive them as “common,” and partly because they’re, well, annual. (Many of us have seen the famous Plant Delights/Tony Avent [...]
In recent years I’ve learned to re-define “garden wildlife” to include not only butterflies and bees, but also the host of other pollinating insects. Recently, Christine Cook of Mossaics Ecological [...]
As a long-time podcast listener I just assumed that listenership would be on the rise during the pandemic, but apparently just the opposite - though they're now coming back. I wonder if [...]
During the lunch break Roy answered questions from gardeners, like Carole Galati here. Photo by Kathy Jentz. Way back (it seems) in February, I attended a popular winter [...]
Gardens in Old Greenbelt The obvious answer is that NOT starting a garden club is less hassle than starting one, but my local gardening friends and I want [...]
Lord Baltimore lobby before the arrival of 30+ boozy garden writers. GardenRant has covered the Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show several times, and I hope readers are ready for [...]
