Here we cover garden design, what’s being talked about in garden design, and of course, garden designers.
Living in the DC area, it's been fun to blog about the White House gardens, a topic that now has its own category. I've included other presidential gardens, like the [...]
A posey of pinks with a ruff of hosta leaves. I’m pretty sure I began gardening so that I could pick flowers with impunity. Walking to school in [...]
And right then, before I can forget, I find my calendar app, scroll to some random date in August, and type, "Order more daffs."
A portrait of John Sales by Charles Hawes. I have just heard that John Sales died in December. This is very sad news to me, but may mean [...]
Gardens Illustrated is 30 years old this year. I have a first copy, dated April/May 1993. It came out every two months from then. That was a real, delightful game [...]
I don't know about YOU and the size of YOUR garden pots, but mine just aren't large enough to comfortably include what we're always told we should - a spikey [...]
These pots in my back garden used to contain bold-colored annuals that grew surprisingly large - particularly the red Iresine here with sweet potato vine. Then the deer found them [...]
Pergolas in Daybreak, UT, outside Salt Lake City. A pergola in Maryland I saw way too much water-sucking landscaping when I was in Salt Lake City, [...]
Approach to the Pavilions. Photo credit: Iwan Baan, Glenstone Museum The DC area's biggest art news in 2018 was by all accounts the opening of a much-expanded contemporary art museum [...]
Remedy, by Joan Linder, located in Roswell Park Cancer Institute Can beautiful images of nature promote healing? Even healing from cancer? There is a British university study that [...]
In my quest for examples of low-maintenance, more eco-friendly civic landscapes, two libraries near me were recommended by Scott Aker, head of gardens at the National Arboretum and a former resident [...]
Help! My town really could use some examples of alternatives to bedding annuals for its civic landscapes, alternatives that are more sustainable and better-looking to the modern eye. (I know, [...]
