Tips & Techniques

  • Books: Garden Advice You Need

    Every time I pass one of those compost tea barrels sitting outside a Whole Foods store,…

  • A Very Cool Tool

    I first stumbled across this on the blog Inhabitat, and it's a "must know about" for…

  • Designing in Winter

    You’d never guess from looking at the picture at left that this landscape is in desperate…

  • Bluetooth in the Garden

    A Revolution in Watering Can’t wait until this new technique hits the home irrigation market, and…

  • The Art of Color

    Most people have probably never heard of the Rosengarten family, but we all owe them a…

  • Azaleas with a Difference

    CLOUD PRUNING Dateline: Washington DC, Spring It can truly be a sickening sight:  in front of…

  • Containing the Garden

    I’m tempted to call Ray Rogers a P__head, but there are certain kinds of people I…

  • Sweetgums, Slugs and Bird Flu

    This should be a tree for everyone's garden, except for those #@*!?$#! gumballs.  But slug season…

  • The Pruning School

    What a great day … pruning class with Peter Deahl (the expert, left) at Tudor Place…