Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
Lincoln Smith speaking to members of the Greenbelt-Beltsville Garden Club in his forest garden. Lincoln Smith has been described, by one Washington Post reporter, as a "landscape architect [...]
Next up in my college lawn-class reports: what I learned about clover and alternative grass seed mixes that include flowering plants, and what I would do if I (still) had [...]
When I signed up for the course "Lawns in the Landscape: Environment Hero or Villain?" at the University of Maryland I had suspicions, even after reading this description: "Examination of [...]
Since the launch of "No-Mow Month" campaigns, which experts seem to agree may do more harm than good, I was happy to see a more science-based and realistic meme appear. [...]
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” Wise words from Frances Hodgson Burnett in her much loved novel The Secret Garden. [...]
Salal (Gaulthera shallon) is an often scruffy Northwest native. A few years ago, I didn’t care at all for native plants. I thought they were ugly and boring, [...]
A column I recently wrote about foraging seemed filled with garden-related corollaries. In order to write it, I contacted a couple of longtime foragers and followed them through the mud, [...]
When I wrote that I was confused by conflicting info online about stem-besting bees and how gardeners can help them, Amy Campion left an instructive comment and offered to guest-post [...]
So maybe our first goal in urban horticulture should be to use plants to benefit people and, extapolated from that, if a project is also environmentally and economically successful, then there is the bit we expected from horticulture in the first place.
Amsonia hubrichtii, center right, in the fall, not long before they started falling over. When I recently wrote about which leaves it's best NOT to leave on top [...]
Radio Garden is planting seeds this spring while you are imagining your best garden ever. Take your pick of more than 8,000 diverse radio stations around the world. Radio Garden [...]
Eclipse image by Luc Viatour (wikipedia commons) Nature is the clear winner in my informal tally of where people want to watch the April 8 solar eclipse. Yes, [...]
