Entrance garden includes Hesperaloe parviflora, the pink flower seen here. It's a favorite of hummingbirds. I'm back with another Ed Snodgrass story, this one about a tour of [...]
Ed Snodgrass is best known for the green roof plants he grows at his nursery in Maryland and his green-roof consulting around the world. After first visiting his "farm" in [...]
You may recognize this photo of podcaster Leslie Harris's garden in Charlottesville, VA from my visit in early April. Well, it wasn't long after that that Leslie announced that she [...]
Nandina 'Burgundy Wine' along the front of my house - in January. Other evergreens are Osmanthus 'Goshiki' and Carex 'Ice Dance'. I recently welcomed visitors to my townhouse [...]
In my recent post covering Henry Mitchell's advice about lawns and alternatives thereto, I promised to next share his ideas on designing gardens for lower maintenance, also from The Essential [...]
Staff from the Smithsonian's National Zoo harvesting bamboo in Greenbelt, Md. There's acres of the dreaded invasive running bamboo in my neighborhood, like there is in many of [...]
The Garden Shoe Upgrade Back in 2010, for some reason, I lined up all my gardening shoes for this enticing group photo. The shoes mostly kept my feet dry and [...]
Readers of the Washington Post, including me, have followed Dana Milbank's thoughtful, left-leaning political commentary for years. So what a surprise to read a recent column chastising himself - and [...]
My local garden club was invited to an open garden event in a nearby retirement community of 3,000+ residents, enough to easily fill the 168 plots in their lovely community [...]
I visit an artist at his home studio The bus you see above is one of several eye-popping pieces of vehicular art that I've been gawking at for years, whenever [...]
I recently visited the Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, not far from me in the Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge. What looks like a military bunker houses a project of [...]
A lawnless garden somewhere in DC. Finding myself with nothing handy to read at the pool, I picked up my extremely marked-up copy of Henry Mitchell's The Essential [...]
