Susan and Mark Adams first went gung ho for gardening as newlyweds in 1987, after buying a charming Hunting Ridge bungalow set on a hilly eighth of an acre.
"We didn't know anything at the time,"...
After two successive hurricanes hit their Ruxton property in 1979, Bill and Penny Owen needed to do some serious clean up in their backyard. "It looked like a bomb went off," recalls Penny. "Our...
Growing up on a 120-acre farm in Lebanon, PA, Becky Henry was hardly a fan of the drudgework of gardening, though she sure enjoyed the end product.
"My mom would say, 'Go weed,' and I'd say, 'Ugh,'"...
When Jeff Maddox moved into his sprawling contemporary cedar-and-brick North Baltimore home in 1998, he was too busy renovating the interior to turn his attention to the outside. "I redid the whole...
When Denise and Tom Genuit moved into their four-bedroom Lutherville-Timonium colonial with their young son Drew, the property was disastrous. The back porch was dilapidated, the yard was a thicket...
You could say that when Sande and Don Riesett purchased their heavily wooded Brooklandville property in 1999, they were green to the world of gardening.
“Before buying this house, we were both city...
Beekeeper, gardener, and Park School teacher Marla Hollandsworth takes a Darwinian approach to her four-acre Phoenix property.
Beekeeper, gardener, and Park School teacher Marla Hollandsworth takes a Darwinian approach to her four-acre Phoenix property. "I'm not into over management," says the former attorney. "These plants...
Rebecca and Drew Krimski's 1920s Georgian home in Guilford has an incredible pedigree—from the limestone steps culled from the same quarry as President Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, to the exterior...
Meandering past Judson and Marya Flanagan's charming garden—with its riot of roses, row of espalier pear trees, and herb garden rife with rosemary and lavender—a passerby might think they're in...
As two hummingbirds lap up sugar water from a bright red feeder adjacent to the screened porch of their mid-century Mt. Washington home, Tony and Patsy Perlman marvel at the miracle of nature.
And...
