WELCOME TO THE season of neither here nor there. It’s still hot enough to fry an egg on the...

IT’S HALLOWEEN at Costco and has been so since mid-August. Candy corn and miniature Musketeers are...

WHAT SHOULD we have for dinner next Thursday night? Maybe we should order ribs? Pizza? The Prince...

“I HAD MY DOUBTS about those seeds,” said Baby in her most dour voice, a seriously depressing tone...

I JUST PLANTED flowering kale seeds in my upper window boxes, the ones that have a couple of inches...

My neighbor Pat’s giant red patio umbrella is just visible, planted like a giant flower amid the...

THE MOST CHARMING garden I’ve ever seen was minuscule, about the size of a walk-in closet, and not...

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...