People plant the same flowers every year. Why? It is the familiar and known that we love. Some of us do the same with eating out. Food writer David McAninch writes that people frequent restaurants that have been favorites for…
The kitchen garden, or vegetable garden as it became known, has a long history in the story of gardening. Therese O'Malley writes about the walled garden tradition in her book, Keywords In American Landscape Design. She says "All citations emphasized…
I just returned from a visit to Reno, Nevada. While there I had to walk through the beautiful Rose Garden at Idlewild Park, located in a residential area not far from downtown. The one acre Rose Garden has 200 varieties…
You might consider that growing flowers, designing a landscape, and installing a lawn are just pages in the history of the garden. They are that, but much more. People learned about what kind of garden to cultivate from those who…
I face the prospect of gardening where shade dominates the daylight hours. That's my fourth floor balcony. Recently Jessica Damiano, Associated Press, wrote a wonderful article for the Boston Globe about shade gardening. The name of the article is "Not…