People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
I go back a long way with the award-winning Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. My first experiences at Bernheim were grade school bus trips to the nature center in the [...]
Styrax japonica and friends in bloom in the front yard Guest post by Mary Vaananen After a recent Master Gardener tour came through my little city garden, I [...]
I’ve been reading book from 2018 that just recently appeared as a paperback, The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone. It’s a best-selling biography of one of the great plant explorers [...]
GardenRant posts this week have gone there - questioning the rarely questioned conventional wisdom these days about native-plant superiority and those bad "exotics." Today I'm adding to the discussion the [...]
Dear Kim, I need your help. I am impressed that a reality television star, like you, with star status as big as the President’s (I mean HUGE), can walk into [...]
Mary Vaananen When I retired from Jelitto Perennial Seeds at the end of last year, my desk was neither memorialized nor mothballed. Gone, however, are old coffee cups, [...]
Horticulturist Sam Bahr, like so many people who work at the University of Maryland, is someone I first met as a neighbor in nearby Historic Greenbelt. He got his coveted job [...]
Edith Eddleman and the Jekyll Border at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum. I arrived in Raleigh a few days before last week’s Perennial Plant Association (PPA) Symposium. I checked [...]
Debra Prinzing. Photo by Kathy Jentz. I'm a big fan of Debra Prinzing and her amazing Slow Flowers movement, which I generally describe as "local and seasonal flowers" [...]
My connection to Wollam Gardens, the cut-flower farm in the Virginia exurbs of D.C., starts with this ridiculously cute couple - Hillary Gottemoeller and Joe Harris. I got to know [...]
The documentary Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf opens with Oudolf pulling out colored pens and drawing, with his left hand, bright squiggles, slashes, curlicues and abbreviated Latin plant [...]
Cecropiamoth caterpillar at the Wildflower Center More than 90 garden bloggers got together for three days of garden touring in Austin last weekend. It is a return to [...]
