I’ve been enjoying making videos lately, especially since the pandemic made in-person garden-touring impossible for a while. Mostly I’ve videoed other Greenbelt gardens but last fall I made this one of my own front garden’s make-over – I replaced an … Read More
(Originally published in the Greenbelt News Review.) Enjoy spring and fellow Greenbelters in the spacious and beautiful lakeside garden of Mary Lou Williamson from 10 to 4 on Sunday, April 25 (using our rain date, since Saturday’s forecast isn’t promising).The … Read More
The goal is super-low-maintenance I’m sure you all recognize this 21 by 11-foot island bed around the GHI sign at Ridge and Hamilton Roads. It’s very prominent and as of yesterday morning, half-full of weeds. And here it is after … Read More
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
