Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
I have developed a strong antipathy for the term ‘winter interest’ in garden writing. Do we truly have nothing better to say about winter gardens or the plants growing in [...]
Yes, I'm starting the new year with a rant, right out of the gate! It's about some old junipers I saw recently that have been sheared into sheer ugliness. Another [...]
(L) Coleus in front of 'Little Joe' Joe Pye Weed; (R) Persian Shield with sweet potato vine. About a year ago I asked you guys - the savvy, [...]
In the past, I tried different systems—various word files, spreadsheets, folders filled with dirty plant tags, and more. But none of these worked. They depended on following up after a day in the garden, or keeping tags or notes in some kind of order. File under "Never Had a Chance."
Last week wasn't great. I won't go into why, but suffice to say that if sometimes you get to see the best of humanity there will also be times when [...]
I'm happy to tip readers off to a terrific documentary about people with extraordinary connections to trees, premiering on HBO and streaming on Max starting Tuesday December 12. All of [...]
Thanksgiving has arrived! The cool season annuals are finally going out. As I put them in their places, Charlie Brown tunes pop into my head. We're all feeling festive. Bill’s [...]
There are a couple of magnificent, one hundred-and fifty-year-old gingkoes across the Ohio River in Louisville. Visitors to Cave Hill Cemetery and the Peterson-Dumesnil House make annual pilgrimages to see [...]
For perhaps the 15th consecutive autumn let me TRUMPET THE MOST UNDERUSED PLANT IN HORTICULTURE HISTORY OK, calm down Bob..Bob.. But I'm telling you, it is underused. These pictures [...]
I love pawpaw trees. In the shade, spindly and stretching. In the sun, pyramidal and bedecked with foliage of a tropical flare.
Smithsonian, you’ve done it again. I usually find the best articles about plants and gardening in publications that do not restrict themselves to gardening content. This one is from September, [...]
I have mixed emotions around this time of the year. Summer is losing its grip and soon winter will be here; the passing of time is something completely beyond my [...]
