Chef Ian Rynecki and gardener Diane Burns modestly refer to their creation at Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards as a...

Starting plants from seed may not be the easiest, or even the most economical, way to supply your garden. It requires...

Back in the ’80s, I ran a landscape crew at Albemarle Farm and its later incarnation as John Kluge’s Morven Farm. I...

Each season has its sounds and smells. In the quiet of late winter stinky skunk cabbage entices winged insects hungry...

My circle of acquaintances happily includes many who make their lives in horticulture. Their answers to my idle query...

What does it mean for a garden to have “good bones”? Like a beautiful woman or a handsome man, it’s what remains when...

The weeping willow and sourwood, gifts for our wedding, died early on. The Austrian pine marking the birth of our...

The lure of the long-blooming, low-maintenance garden is perennial in the gardener’s heart. After the rush of early...

When it burst upon the scene five years ago, boxwood blight put a big scare into Virginia nurseries and all who love...

Deck the garden with half a dozen stars to ornament the darkest days of winter. In the pared-down landscape between...