Where the American settler had wilderness at his or her doorstep, the contemporary American has created the lawn, a buffer of pseudo-nature between the public and private domain. Tending this landscape ornament has grown into an American pastime and...

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If gardening is a lifelong journey, Elaine Evans wants you to pick up the pace. Evans runs tours of garden-rich regions of the United States from her base in Arlington, combining visits to private and public gardens with stops at specialty plant nurseries. ...

FEW gardens are open to the public between the end of September and Easter. This is a pity, because seeing a garden in winter is often the best way to judge it. Good gardens go on looking good without flowers: it has been said...

In the gardening world, the summer doldrums are brought on by two things: weeding and watering. They usually set in around July 4, but this year they came early. After transplanting dozens of greenhouse-nurtured annuals, I held my breath and waited for rain. When it...

The press release Hillary Clinton just sent out about John Spencer's attacks appears to mark her first overtly aggressive maneuver of this election cycle. It should serve as something of an alarm to the Spencer folks that, after the bumpy but ultimately easy ride against...