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Green Acre #26: Southern Discomfort

IF YOU SQUINT you may be able to see the date on the cover of this issue of Southern Accents magazine: July-August 1997. You’ll also notice (if you squint even harder) the thumb-tack holes and blackening in the margins where it has been alternately pinned and taped to walls and cork boards for almost 19 years. […]

October 20, 2016

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Pumpkins: What’s Past Is Prologue

Prepare yourself for ghastly–and glamorous–gourds.

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First Look: the Spring Valley House Tour

Get a glimpse of the good life on this tour benefiting Palisades Village.

October 12, 2016

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Green Acre #25: Pity the Pittosporum

It shouldn’t have lasted as long as it did, but its demise wasn’t pretty.

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Look Up! Ceiling Fans That Make a Statement

And they keep the air circulating as we transition away from the AC.

October 6, 2016

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Green Acre #24: Thinking Outside the (Window) Box

Gardening far above ground has its own challenges.

October 5, 2016

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DC Design House 2016: Heavens Above

This year’s decorator show house is filled with ideas, all around and high above.

September 29, 2016

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Green Acre #23: In Celebration of Volunteers

Often the flowers you don’t plant are the ones that rise to glory.

September 28, 2016

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Green Acre #22: I See a Little Fertilizer in Your Future

A little voodoo will do you in the garden.

September 21, 2016

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Green Acre #20: Going Coconuts

A trip to palm-tree country is like catnip to this gardener.

September 7, 2016

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Sitting Pretty in D.C.

Chairs connote comfort. But my favorite is just plain beautiful.

September 1, 2016

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Green Acre #19: Think I Know What I’m Talking About?

Dream on!

August 31, 2016

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Green Acre #18: Paradise Is for the Birds

The tropics are full of horror stories, even here on Capitol Hill.

August 24, 2016

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A Modern Retreat on the Eastern Shore

You can look ‘country’ without looking ‘old-fashioned.’

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These Ancestors Presented a Problem

Will great-great-grandfather Martin get along with great-great-grandmother Henrietta? A design dilemma.

August 19, 2016

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Lego Does D.C. . . . Again

Three of Washington’s iconic structures can be built on your coffee table.

August 17, 2016

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Green Acre #17: Gardening Beyond Flowers

Decorating the dying garden.

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Green Acre #16: Of Pots, Friends and the U.S. Botanic Garden

It’s time to juice the small city summer garden with plants in pots.

August 10, 2016

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