More Vertical Gardens
Charlottesville’s Landmark Hotel – Perfect location for a Vertical Garden
I’ve seen lots of images of roof gardens topping contemporary buildings but there is also a movement to create vertical gardens in European cities. The picture of what I suggest for the Landmark Hotel is so completely clear, amazing and…
Last Zinnias – First Mums
Munch, Dig, Laugh: 2nd Wednesday’s with Leni
The final gathering of my 2nd Wednesday monthly open house will be in October on the 13th and I have decided to give it a theme – see the title above. : ) All summer I have been delighted to…
Check With Your Doctor: the Hypocrisy of Our Current Health Care Policy
“Be sure to check with your doctor”; oh, you don’t have a doctor? Then die. Quietly – please. (One of our nervier congressmen actually uttered something very similar on the floor of the House of Representatives this spring during the…
Please Can We Create a Sensible Recycling Method for Supermarket Vegetable Waste?
Because of our perverse American insistence on spotless, wrinkle free vegetables supermarket vegetable departments throw out garbage cans full of good produce everyday. Yesterday morning I went shopping at the Barracks Road Kroger in Charlottesville. To get to the jicima…