Tag: Gardening
Can You Honorably Re-Gift a Gloxinia?
Can I honorably re-gift an expensive Gloxinia plant?
Gloxinia, you say? Re-gift?? Can there be any honor in re-gifting? Of any flower, plant, bulbs, seeds...
DC Natives Create Pollinater Pathway
Gardening is a chance to create beauty for yourself and your DC community. There are not many other activities that let you help our...
Free Our Gardens
July is the month we celebrate our country’s freedoms, often in our outdoor living spaces. It is also the summer month when our gardens...
A Great Free Resource for Gardeners
Did you know you could borrow a weed wacker or a rototiller for free? Yes, it’s true, for free. In 2021, a partnership between...
How to Rid Yourself of Bamboo Roots
We planted a stand of bamboo years ago, thinking it would be a wonderful screen – and boy, it has been. But I never...
Gardening Partnership Helps Youth Bloom on Barracks Row
Jim Guckert is bending over a patch of dirt on the 700 block of Eighth St. SE. Two young men are kneeling close by,...
Save the Clematis
Is there anything good about the vile weather we have been suffering?
I assume you mean garden-wise. Rapid switches back and forth between mild and...
How to Improve Compacted Soil
Gardeners spend January sitting by a cozy fire reading garden sales catalogues. I can't. My New Year's Resolutions are too URGENT. Please help me...
Plant Your Fritillaria Bulbs Sideways
I plan to buy some Fritillaria bulbs this fall. Judging from pictures they’re very tall and stunningly beautiful. But a gardening friend made a...
In Praise of Crape Myrtles
Just like spring with the lovely cherry blossoms, Capitol Hill has exploded in dramatic colors throughout the Hill. Bright pinks, fuchsia, lavender, and white...