Hot Gardeners Great American Garden Survives Santa Barbara Fires November 17, 2008 • When the Santa Barbara fire began last week in the community of Montecito, I thought of two people: T.C.Boyle and Ganna Walska.
Hot Gardeners Welcome To Candyland: Portland's Platt Garden November 7, 2008 • It's a candyland of yellow, purple, red, blue and silver foliage at one of Portland's oldest and botanically best private gardens.
Hot Gardeners An Autumnal Peek At A Great American Garden November 5, 2008 • The campaign promises are over; now to deliver the sublime, as we throw open the gates of a private Portland garden on the headiest day of American democracy we are ever likely to know.
Hot Gardeners Violet Gage Plums and Wrens Egg Beans September 14, 2008 • I'm the first to admit this is the last place edible gardeners are going to find great ideas. Hell, any ideas. But at least I can turn you on to one of the more innovative and accessible organic farmers in the country should you ever find yo
Hot Gardeners Mr. American Horticulture Redux August 12, 2008 • Before I overwhelm you with the deep purple and mandarin orange of the promised bromeliad in Dan Hinkley's garden, let me show you how he uses more accessible
Hot Gardeners Mr. American Horticulture August 11, 2008 • No doubt there are a whole lot of crowns he'd rather wear -- a whole lot of sequined costumes, too -- but once you've won most of the awards in your field plus won over all the people, not one of whom (damn it all) has an unadoring thing to
Hot Gardeners Get 'Em While They Last August 6, 2008 • Three years ago, a formidable nonegenarian named Hortense Miller -- vegetarian, environmentalist and early feminist -- discussed her longevity with a reporter: "Well, there's an end to everything. Good God, I'm 96 years old. I ought to die. And I ...
Hot Gardeners In The Garden Of Sampson And Beasley August 4, 2008 • Nothing like a mega-party in a mega-garden to put stressful issues like entertaining in perspective. This past weekend, a mere 350 of us went to a fundraiser
What Would Eve Do? Ketzel's New Garden Eve's is Open for Business August 1, 2008 • In another attempt to answer Talking Plant's most popular query, What Would Eve Do?, the answer is...
Hot Gardeners Radical Front Yard Gardener Throws in the Towel July 9, 2008 • Lest you think all do-good gardeners suffer from eco-hubris, don't miss the latest entry by D.C. gardener Susan Harris over at our friends' place,
Hot Gardeners A Plant Nerd Worthy of the Name May 22, 2008 • Ever so slowly here at TP, strangers are becoming regulars, and regulars are becoming friends. So as I continue dodging your most-asked question, What Would Eve Do?
Plants and Prose Pissing Rain and Standing Water May 12, 2008 • Having just heard NPR's Melissa Block report on the desperation after the quake in Chengdu, and the continuing absurdity of
Bad Bugs Tips from an Amazon Gardener March 22, 2008 • Dona Raimunda is a rock star. A meteor shower. A force of nature. It's amazing to me how that much personality can be contained in such a diminutive body.
Native Vs. Exotic Plants For Love of a Sinkhole January 2, 2008 • Q: How many paleoecologists does it take to excavate a sinkhole, find seven previously undescribed bird species and reintroduce native plant species to a place they haven't grown in for a thousand years?
Hot Gardeners The World According to Elspeth Bobbs September 3, 2007 • Introducing one of the country's most enchanting -- and disarming -- gardeners.