Are your ears still ringing from your local fireworks celebration? Did you take the day off because it just didn’t make sense to interrupt the weekend momentum initiated yesterday? Lucky you. Well the how shall you spend this rest of this weekend? Tonight keep the feel-good holiday-vibe at the Rock and Roll Hotel. The reggae-roots band […]
Go ahead, get some dirt under your fingernails. Spring seems to have finally sprung (but cherry trees still haven’t gotten the message as of Sunday night) and the warm afternoons are perfect for some spring beautification and good old manual labor. A dozen deep knee bends and you’ll be one step closer to bathing suit […]
By Matthew Roberts of Ginkgo Gardens Late winter is terribly annoying to just about everyone and especially to gardeners. The days are getting noticeably longer, but the air is still chill. The winds are damp and capriciously knock over and crack terra cotta pots left out on the patio. They create mushy clogged piles of […]
By Carmella Mazzotta If you haven’t done so already, check out the park restoration project on Capitol Hill around the corner from Eastern Market. Dubbed Kim’s Garden, the site is located at the intersection of Independence and North Carolina Avenues at 8th Street SE, next to Christ Our Shepherd Church. A native plant landscape design […]
The Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA) Annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale features new, rare and hard-to-find plants, and this year’s sale also includes more than 600 books on horticulture, garden design and designers, landscape architecture and garden travel from the library of longtime FONA board member and garden designer Sally Boasberg, who passed […]