People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
Horticulturist Sam Bahr, like so many people who work at the University of Maryland, is someone I first met as a neighbor in nearby Historic Greenbelt. He got his coveted job [...]
Edith Eddleman and the Jekyll Border at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum. I arrived in Raleigh a few days before last week’s Perennial Plant Association (PPA) Symposium. I checked [...]
Debra Prinzing. Photo by Kathy Jentz. I'm a big fan of Debra Prinzing and her amazing Slow Flowers movement, which I generally describe as "local and seasonal flowers" [...]
My connection to Wollam Gardens, the cut-flower farm in the Virginia exurbs of D.C., starts with this ridiculously cute couple - Hillary Gottemoeller and Joe Harris. I got to know [...]
The documentary Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf opens with Oudolf pulling out colored pens and drawing, with his left hand, bright squiggles, slashes, curlicues and abbreviated Latin plant [...]
Cecropiamoth caterpillar at the Wildflower Center More than 90 garden bloggers got together for three days of garden touring in Austin last weekend. It is a return to [...]
I grew up near Richmond, VA, about an hour from Brent and Becky's, the beloved flower bulb company in Tidewater, VA. I've even known Brent since I was a preteen [...]
Award-winning English writer Alexandra Campbell, recently described what she calls YouTube Gardening in this post on her blog The Middlesized Garden. Like me, she complains about there not being enough good [...]
I'd seen the new Obama portraits all over the media, so yesterday I subwayed down to the National Portrait Gallery to see them in person. The president's portrait, on the [...]
Two weeks ago I stood in the checkout line at Louisville’s Whole Foods. Sleet, freezing rain and snow were predicted for the next day. (I knew ahead of time that [...]
Botanical Latin gets a lift at the 2015 International Plant Propagators Society meeting in Cincinnati. Unless you’re some kind of freak show superstar brainiac like Paul Cappiello, Bill [...]
"Takoma Hort" dedicates new garden in honor of its centennial. Who's old enough to have belonged to a garden club back when they were known as cliques for [...]
