People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
I attended a talk by the amazing New Jersey meadow-maker Larry Weaner at the Annapolis Horticulture Society. I'd heard Larry talk on the subject years ago but this talk was [...]
Pat Sutton (L) with wildlife gardener Mildred Morgan. I bought one of these cool Monarch T-shirts while I was at the Cape May Bird Sanctuary. Many of you [...]
Garden suppliers’ sights are set on next spring. Last month, representatives from nurseries, greenhouses, independent garden centers and even Big Box Stores loaded up their cars, vans and trucks, heading [...]
Landscape architect/blogger Thomas Rainer is one of my favorite designers, something I may have mentioned before on this blog. Gardenblogger Margaret Roach is a Rainer fan, too. She sought him out for [...]
In a recent issue of the New Yorker I learned that the current head of the Nature Conservancy is a "new conservationist" who's butting heads with "traditional conservationists." Also termed "eco-pragmatism," [...]
Lambèrt Vrijmoed, a British Columbia nurseryman, once drove a Pontiac hearse as his get-around car. There was not a hint of Goth subculture about him, though there was a touch [...]
Kurt Bluemel defied the odds most of his long, illustrious life, so no one was ready for the inoperable, rare liver cancer that was diagnosed a few weeks ago. After [...]
Kurt Bluemel, Panicum Warrior Sorry to deliver sad news. Kurt Bluemel Der Gras König -- The King of Grasses -- died yesterday evening after a brief illness. The [...]
Poi, a traditional edible starch of the tropics, made from the ground corms of taro, can’t keep up with its popular starchy rivals—potato, corn and rice. But its ornamental qualities [...]
I had a fitful first day in Death Valley a few weeks ago. I felt like an apprehensive Spencer Tracy when he got off the train at Black Rock in [...]
Pat Haragan's book signing and lecture at Whitehall House and Gardens on March 26th. I have dozens of floras sitting on cluttered bookshelves: from China to the Caucasus [...]
A Pentecostal snake handler fell victim to natural selection in Middlesboro, Kentucky, on the same weekend I was attending a horticultural conference in Grünberg, Germany. Pity the poor pastor. The folks [...]
