Just one more – I promise. But looking at these photos has me questioning my own garden – Is it too tame? And other nagging questions, plus lots of fun ideas. In the home garden of designer/author Rebecca Sweet, I…
Greetings from California, or at least just off the (red-eye) flight from there. I was there for the 6th annual Gardenblogger Fling, held in SF for the first time. Having not been there since the ’60s (remember Haight-Ashbury?) I went…
Though no gardener ever thinks her garden is ready for viewing, under pressure from various sources I’m offering these mid-June shots of my brand-new back yard in Old Greenbelt. First, a “before” shot of the back yard, which which you…
I sure hope Brookside continues this new tradition, now in its second year, of organizing tours of the best private gardens in lower Montgomery County – because the gardens and the organization behind the tour are fabulous. Here are just…
If you’ve ever been on a European garden tour you know that for gardeners it’s the perfect way to travel – a great mix of cities, villages and glorious gardens, with garden-lovers as your travel companions (hardy souls that we…
When I reported on my new back garden in late July it looked woefully empty, as shown above. Patio and walkway done, a few shrubs and trees planted, but otherwise bare. In this September photo you can see some of…
I recently attended an “open garden” event held by the Takoma Horticultural Club, during which I grabbed these photos of USDA-trained horticulturist Wendy Bell, whose talk about conservation landscaping we reported here on the blog. Above, Wendy and Viv’s house…
It’s been a while since I showed off my new front garden in Old Greenbelt, and finally, I can show off the back garden, too. (Which in Old Greenbelt is called “garden side”. In contrast to what most of us…
You know what I like even more than the grandest of professionally designed gardens? Personal gardens, the funkier and more colorful the better. And I found a fabulous one in Rockville the other day, thanks to a garden-coaching client wanting…
Horticulturist and frequent Behnkes speaker Carol Allen has this report from her post-Derecho garden. Today an entourage of fourteen Pepco-affiliated service trucks descended on my little gravel road. They put up a new pole and strung some obviously temporary lines!…
Thanks to Brookside Gardens for organizing an awesome collection of gardens for the public to drool over! It was all part of their hopefully yearly garden tour to benefit everyone’s favorite local garden – Brookside itself. The gardens were a…
I moved from Takoma Park to Old Greenbelt almost five months ago and though my house and back yard are still messy, dirty construction sites, I finally have something to show off – the front* garden. I could show you…