Yesterday was the Greenbelt Garden Tour that I’d worked for weeks to organize. About a week ago I remembered that I needed to get my own garden ready for the tour, too, so the weeding and mulching began and finally…
Fifteen unique gardens in Old Greenbelt will be on a FREE TOUR this Sunday, September 15 (2013) from 1 to 5 p.m. Thirteen are small 1930s townhouse gardens and two are larger, lake-view gardens just outside the now-cooperatively owned townhouses. …
Last week we looked at designers’ thoughts on high-maintenance gardens so as promised, this week we’re covering their ideas about gardening with LESS work, thankyouverymuch. First Mary Gray, a garden designer in Northern Virginia, who starts by ranting about this…
Summer is over and school is back in session, summer plants are starting fade away a bit, so that means it is time for fall mums!!!! I have always loved the fall; growing up in Pennsylvania in the month of…
One of the team blogs that I follow is called the Garden Designer Roundtable, where designers from the U.S. and U.K. weigh in on a common topic. Recently they tackled the issue of maintenance, which is a hot topic among…
While I was visiting New York City earlier this month I didn’t JUST visit the High Line. Also on my agenda was the Native Plant Garden at the New York Botanical Garden which I’d read so much about when it…
I recently traveled to New York City for the sole purpose of seeing the now-world-famous High Line Park – a mile-long elevated park on what was once a freight rail line running along the West Side from the Meatpacking District…
This shouldn’t be a hard thing to do – finding somewhere to volunteer my services in the Metro DC area. I’m hoping to put my knowledge of gardening to some good purpose, do it with other people, and be active…
Spring is long over and the long hot summer is slowly coming to an end. The children will be back in school before you know it and it will be time to prepare your planting beds for the fall. There…
My financial adviser is telling me to travel now, while my health is good. (As a young-old person I have to be reminded that it won’t be long before I’m plain old old and maybe not up to traveling the…
The American Horticulture Society’s book awards for 2013 are out, and here’s the one winner that I might just buy: A Rich Spot of Earth by Peter J. Hatch. The AHS notes that it’s “unquestionably a superb work of scholarship,”…
I can’t resist a “Top 10” list. I also can’t resist weighing in on their choices. So here are the plants, with Birds and Blooms explanation of why they love each plant, and my own assessment of each plant. 1. …