city gardening

Green Acre #33: Holiday Dreckorating*

A cheap chick’s guide to over-the-top seasonal decor.

December 14, 2016

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Green Acre #32: Deck the Window Boxes!

It’s time to talk of cabbages and glitz.

December 7, 2016

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Green Acre #31: Dog Walkers, Ugh!

In the battle of the curbside garden, it’s Plants 0, Dogs, oh, about 1,000.

November 30, 2016

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Green Acre #30: Sundays, Pretzels and . . . Philodendrons

It’s a plant anyone can grow, and, yes, it has its uses.

November 16, 2016

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Green Acre #29: Fall’s Precious Days

The garden moves indoors: a depressing little ditty.

November 9, 2016

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invasive vines

Green Acre #28: Who’s Being Invasive Here?

Lovely vines compete with ugly parking signs on Capitol Hill.

November 2, 2016

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Green Acre #27: They Came, They Saw, They Laughed

She wanted a cool grotto. That’s not what she got.

October 26, 2016

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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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Green Acre #25: Pity the Pittosporum

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

October 12, 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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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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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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Green Acre #17: Gardening Beyond Flowers

Decorating the dying garden.

August 17, 2016

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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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Green Acre #15: Elephants . . .

. . . have such big ears. Especially in a small garden.

August 3, 2016

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