I am dedicating the last of my series on “Myths about Native Plants” to a subtle but widely held misconception.   I believe that this partic...

It’s a common sight in the American landscape: trees skirted with a ring of mulch around their base that float in a sea of lawn.   Landscap...

Few issues in the gardening world generate as much heat as the debate about native plants.   As a result, native plants have developed their...

Thoughts on Moving My wife and I are preparing to move, and that has me thinking about the gardens I will leave behind.    Our new house i...

I am a passionate advocate of native plants.   And I’m not the only one.   Native plants are as popular now as ever, which may explain why t...

What will be the trends that dominate the landscape and garden this year?   In 2011, the garden matters more than ever.   Americans are tur...

January is one of the best times for thinking about the garden.    While plants rest in dormancy under the frozen ground, my mind starts ra...

Well, I’m hoping that my last post about the joys of being a new parent was a plausible excuse for my lack of blogging recently.   The last ...

Just this week, I read an article in Newsweek that asked a very interesting question: “what’s the matter with men?”  For several years, t...

PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parki...

Late September is an ideal time to think about next year’s garden.   Collecting and saving seeds might be the world’s most ancient garden ac...