SHADE GARDENS don’t happen overnight. They creep up on you. Say you have a little plot, naked as...

BABY WANTED an outdoor wedding, in a park perhaps, surrounded by flowers. She chose the...

No wading here: Baby, Stephanie Cavanaugh’s daughter, chills out in the new shallow backyard pool....

WHEN THE AIR tickles 100 degrees the window boxes need daily watering, which I’m not inclined to...

THERE’S NOT MUCH happening right now at Duke Gardens in Durham, North Carolina, which is just...

THE FERNS by the small backyard pond are ravishing this year. Planted a few seasons ago, they grew...

DRAT. I MISSED World Naked Gardening Day again, as did all of my neighbors—I think. Who really...

THE OCEAN is limpid. Aquamarine with diaphanous waves ruffling white where they meet the shore,...

THE LAST TIME I won a prize, it was as the Best Queen Esther at our shul’s* annual Purim party, a...

I RECENTLY spent two stultifying hours touring parts of my Washington DC neighborhood. The Capitol...

New to the Hill? Not the buildings of state that surround the Capitol, but the neighborhood that...

THE AZALEAS are past their peak at the National Arboretum, the verdant surprise tucked into one of...

SOMETIMES all it takes is weeding through a bunch of . . . detritus . . . to come up with...

IT WAS LIKE the scene in The Wizard of Oz when the house falls into Oz and the door opens into...

SOME NAMES are destined for greatness. How can you not become famous (and probably rich) with a...

TALK ABOUT a garden writer’s nightmare. Looks like I’m allergic to flowers. There I was blaming my...

Spring has certainly sprung. Overnight, it seems the forsythia went from straggly stems with a...

I THOUGHT I was done preparing seders. I ceded this to Baby several years ago, when she and her...

‘TIS THE SEASON for ants in the pants. This immediately precedes the season of ants on the kitchen...

WELL, THANKS to the plague, DC’s Cherry Blossom Festival is pfft! again this year. Oh, you can...