A willow tunnel for Baltimore
This week, volunteers and Willow Artist Bonnie Gale will build Baltimore’s first living willow tunnels, providing a unique feature and play space at the park.
Gale will guide the construction of the living willow tunnels with the help of volunteers from Constellation Energy and the Boy Scouts.
Willow rods will be planted in certain patterns and the branches will be woven together at the top to form a ridge line and, ultimately, a tunnel that will continue to grow.
The work begins Tuesday and will be completed on Friday.
Located on a one-acre parcel of land on Pier 5 between Columbus Center and Eastern Avenue, Pierce’s Park is dedicated to the memory of Baltimore contractor and business owner Pierce J. Flanigan III.
My colleagues at The Baltimore Sun have a couple of stories in Tuesday's editions of interest to us gardeners.
The Associated Press is reporting that horticulturalists from Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in South Carolina are traveling to Washington to take cuttings from rare azaleas at the National Arboretum to share with gardens around the country. 
Funeral services were held in Annapolis Thursday for Don Riddle, Jr., founder of Homestead Gardens of Davidsonville, one of the largest independent garden centers in the country.
The garden is part of the state’s “Grow It, Eat It" campaign to encourage one million state residents to eat healthy and to grow their own vegetables, fruits and herbs. 
My 
Today, the Maryland Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee will hear testimony on legislation that would allow public schools to plant and maintain vegetable gardens on school grounds.
It appears that a University of Alabama football fan -- angry over the national championship won by rival Auburn -- has poisoned a pair of 130-year-old trees that marked a post-game celebration spot on the Auburn campus for more than three generations.
Leave it to The New Yorker magazine to publish a heavily researched, highly literate and mildly amusing chronicle of a leaf-blower controvery in California.
Calling all rookie vegetable gardeners?
If the library in a small upstate town could lend fishing poles, why couldn't it lend seeds?
A wet spring and a hot summer have managed to cook up a bumper crop of poison ivy, according to news reports.
New York Times garden writer Anne Raver, who lives and gardens just north of Baltimore, has written a terrific 
Warm weather this past weekend is going to bring out Washington's famous cherry blossoms a few days early.
The Daily Green, a consumer guide for all things green, included Baltimore among its 
And you thought the winter was tough here.
It looks like the recession has come home to roost in the greenhouse.
Trees bend, trees break, and when it snows like it has been in the Mid-Atlantic, they do more of both. 
Groundhogs are no friend to the gardener, and that's certainly true of Punxsutawney Phil, who always manages to see his shadow. Six more weeks of winter is an eternity for the gardener.
Washington Gardener magazine is hosting its fifth annual seed exchange on Saturday, and this year it comes to Maryland, too.
Gardeners were disappointed and angry in July when Scotts Miracle-Gro decided to close the 56 Smith & Hawken stores it had purchased and liquidate the inventory. 
The National Wildlife Federation says this is 
Caitlin Flanagan writes for the Atlantic, and I have always considered her a well-spoken contrarian and flame-thrower, an articulate anti-feminist and Neo-Con.
Overheard at the Baltimore Convention Center: Somebody in Baltimore is looking to build a living wall on Pratt Street.
When you hear about a green ring, what comes to mind?
Had enough of 
Likewise, Europe had a terrible harvest this year, and Europeans purchased much of their produce from the United States, taking with it, the seeds.
As the first decade of the new century closes, we are looking back over the last 10 years to see how we have changed (if not improved!), and vegetable gardening and food are in the headlines.
The Baltimore Sun, the indulgent parent of Garden Variety, asked us for the 
Cassie Jordan of Elkton Christian Academy in Elkton, Md., is the state's winner in a national cabbage-growing contest for school children.
