Dirty Thoughts: A Gardening Life

I am often struck by the infusion of color in the high drama that is international relations: white papers, green parties, orange revolution...

Yesterday at dusk I took a break from life and sat at the intersection of Allen and Stanton Streets in the Lower East Side of New York and b...

I’ve made an important breakthrough, I think: a bit of inadvertent genealogical sleuthing may have unearthed the origins of my botanical pro...

I exist in the past and in a future yet to come—but rarely in the present. Such has been the affliction of my life: the clearest...

How utterly perfect is this Diamond Tiara Hosta? Fresh from the soil (last week’s hefty rain followed by our unseasonable Delaware warmth—90...

Threats to the garden—to the integrity of plants, to the architectural elements, to the design itself—come in many forms. Plants confront ...

Anchor plants in the gardening world are what large department stores are to the shopping mall: rather large, impressive endpoints, thi...