Plants Currently in My Garden
All the favorite plants I've listed. Also Picea pungens, Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood,' Wisteria macrostachya, tulip, pushkinia, scilla, jonquil, many groundcovers, and a lot more.
I love to garden, because....
There's always more to learn and dream about. A personal garden is a gardener's auto-biography.
Biggest Gardening Challenge
Iowa's lengthy winter. Predatory rabbits. Not enough yard. Choosing the next five plants among too many candidates. Too many ideas (for example a landscape inspired by tallgrass prairie but distilled with the Japanese aesthetic of a limited palette of plants, native materials, asymmetry.
If I'm not gardening, I can be found:
Making photographs, reading science, emailing family and friends.
I am the new Executive Director of the Iowa Arboretum, coming to the end of my fourth day on the job. Tomorrow we hold a big plant auction, wi ... more
Plants Currently in My Garden
All the favorite plants I've listed. Also Picea pungens, Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood,' Wisteria macrostachya, tulip, pushkinia, scilla, jonquil, many groundcovers, and a lot more.
I love to garden, because....
There's always more to learn and dream about. A personal garden is a gardener's auto-biography.
Biggest Gardening Challenge
Iowa's lengthy winter. Predatory rabbits. Not enough yard. Choosing the next five plants among too many candidates. Too many ideas (for example a landscape inspired by tallgrass prairie but distilled with the Japanese aesthetic of a limited palette of plants, native materials, asymmetry.
If I'm not gardening, I can be found:
Making photographs, reading science, emailing family and friends.
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Good Evening Mark,
Jessie KeithHow is life as an executive director? We all miss you.
Jessie
06:25 PM CST