The trouble with plants, and the great thing about plants, is that they’re living creatures.  Strangely enough people don’t often think abou...

I've known Felder Rushing for about eight or ten years. I see him at garden writer conferences. He's easy to notice and hard to for...

Thank you to Fran Sorin at the blog "Gardening Gone Wild". Fran interviewed me for the blog she co-authors with five other blogg...

I just completed a short trip to the East Coast with stops in Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The expedition was both...

I recently read an annual report for a botanical garden entitled Hope for Healing the Planet . Among other things I learned that they were...

Some years back, I received a call from Gary Koller, a well-respected garden designer in the Boston area. Gary urged me to find and offer...

I was recently asked to give a talk at the GLTE - Great Lakes Trade Exposition and I was asked to speak on my 10 favor shrubs. I don'...

Once upon a time several years ago, Sinclair Adam Jr of Dunvegan Nursery of West Chester, Pa. He had a whole field of Phlox 'David&#...

While I spend most of my time looking for new plants, today I discovered some plants that were old but personally significant. My father sen...