The final video garden tour of the season walks the viewer through the plant-packed garden of a true plant geek – Rachel Channon. She knows ALL the Latin names of her plants. I’d admired Rachel’s garden for years. I’ve also … Read More
Through the pandemic, I’ve been having a lot of fun making “virtual garden tours,” using a new film editing program that’s powerful yet intuitive enough for even ME – a drop-out from more programs than I care to list. There … Read More
I’m happy to finally have a Virtual Greenbelt Garden Tour outside of Old Greenbelt, thanks to Hope McCalla in East Greenbelt. (Here are the 6 Summer Tours.) I visited Hope and her garden in early September. After we video’d, I … Read More
Today we’re showing off the last of 6 Virtual Summer Garden Tour videos created this year in lieu of in-person tours. For this one, gardener Katrina Boverman recorded a narration, provided the details below, and chose the opening and closing … Read More
Our next and almost last Virtual Summer Garden Tour is of a cool oasis created by the talented gardener Sandra Lange. Luckily for us, Sandra’s son David Barnes is a professional videographer and was available to work with her to … Read More
This year the median strip along Southway, Greenbelt’s historic entrance, has a new look, and it’s a lot more sustainable, too. Environmentally conscious gardeners salute the switch from mostly annuals (like New Guinea impatiens seen below a couple of years … Read More
Our next Virtual Summer Garden Tour uses a very different technique to (try to) replicate the experience of touring a garden – which is the goal in this year without in-person tours. This video uses a music track instead … Read More
Our next video in lieu of in-person garden tours comes to us from a small townhouse in Old Greenbelt – a middle unit with no side yards, no less. Amethyst Dwyer and Dorian Winterfeld bought their GHI unit 21 years … Read More
The first video tour that we Old Greenbelt Gardening Boosters made with Greenbelt Access TV featured just one garden – that of Melissa Mackey. This time we’ve changed things up with a look at 10 gardens, all very visible to … Read More
The Old Greenbelt Gardening Boosters, thwarted in our plans for in-person events this year (like everyone else), found a way to put on garden tours after all – three of them – virtually. For our Virtual Spring Garden Tour we … Read More
Combining photos, videos and comments submitted by 18 Greenbelters with photos of 5 more gardens taken surreptitiously from the street, the new Virtual Spring Garden Tour is 23 gardens strong! Though virtual, many can be seen from the street or … Read More
Back in February, the Old Greenbelt Gardening Boosters announced its formation and a roster of projects to help Greenbelters garden. Most are on hold indefinitely but one project – organizing an Old Greenbelt Garden Tour – has simply gone virtual! … Read More
Greenbelt’s historic hedges, originally just 18″ tall, must have seemed like an attractive garden feature in the ’30s. but over the years they’ve gotten out of control and become huge maintenance problems for residents (GHI members), as well as obstacles … Read More
The Washington Post’s Weekend Section Friday featured “Best Bets” that are all outdoors and include most of my favorite places in DC. They’re all free and OPEN, at least the outdoors part and at least for now. But DON’T go … Read More
As a gardening writer and teacher, my favorite how-to topic has always been pruning – especially hands-on, demonstrating how it’s done on clients’ own (overgrown, neglected) shrubs. Teaching people to prune is rewarding because it’s SO often done incorrectly, and … Read More