I found my friend Carol in my backyard Saturday morning, cheerfully yanking weeds and making plans for a giant hosta that has never been anything but terrifying to me. "We can split it, and plant hosta along the side of your house," she said. I explained that I've always had a Little Shop of Horrors [...]
The gifts of the Erb Park neighborhood just keep giving. Yesterday, we, who can't always tell an orchid from a weed, enjoyed a genuinely lovely garden walk though the hood. We noshed on Queen Ann's Lace (did you know it tasted like parsley?), learned about rainwater irrigation techniques, met some talented landscape artists, dug up [...]
Our tour through our friends' garden left Molly and me speechless last night, mostly because we were chewing on all of the delicious goodies it produced. In a leafy neighborhood full of fat rabbits and determined hobby horticulturists, this box garden looked like the Taj Mahal. An electric fence surrounded wooden sections of gorgeous herbs, vegetables and fruits, including [...]