We get questions
Last spring This was going to be a post about trees, but I just got an email asking me about another topic that is equally on my mind at this time of year. In...
Last spring This was going to be a post about trees, but I just got an email asking me about another topic that is equally on my mind at this time of year. In...
It’s not just what’s happening “out west.” Water management of every kind is a huge issue for everybody, so I have been listening and reading with great interes...
Palafoxia arida, photo by Stan Shebs via Creative Commons Of course you don’t. I am pretty sure it’s a made-up plant. I was reading about it in a novel by Angel...
Tom Stovall, the resident photographer at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Northern Virginia, is donating his images to my campaign promoting DC-area public gard...
Bluebell wood image courtesy of Shutterstock They knew where to go for the first of everything: the first snowdrops, the first catkin, primroses, violets, forge...
Richard Benfield is gradually infiltrating this blog, one Ranter at a time. He’s the Central State Connecticut U. geography professor named the world’s leading ...
What do gardening and Japanese anime culture have in common? There are probably a number of strange intersections, but this is the only one I know about. And it...
Janet and I in full Bawlmer. The annual orgy of plant worship and fun times – the Perennial Plant Association symposium – is happening in Baltimore this year an...
Turkey image via Shutterstock This week begins a month (more or less) of eating—and drinking. Thanksgiving looms large, but after that there is also a continual...