Confessions of a Horticulturist One man’s lifelong passion for growing things By Phil Koch As a young boy, gardening was not last on my mind. It wasn’t even on the list. The first backyard [...]
Mulch Ado Or, a buried life By Noah Salt Every year about this time — late winter, early spring — trucks towing flatbeds of pine needles begin to appear like clockwork, roaming the neighborhood [...]
Mayor’s Manse A historic home is a microcosm of Winston-Salem heritage By Nancy Oakley If the walls of 1121 Arbor Road could talk, they’d divulge so much about the golden past of Winston-Salem. [...]
History, Hipsters and What the Heck? There’s no jaywalking in Jamestown By Nancy Oakley • Photographs by Amy Freeman “Let me carry that.” Amy is reaching out her left hand, her right [...]
TimberTop Garden in Blowing Rock takes gardening to the extreme By Ross Howell Jr. • Photographs by Sam Froelich Google “extreme gardening” and you’ll get some tantalizing results — [...]
Victoria and Neill Clegg’s haven in the heart of Greensboro’s Westerwood neighborhood Story and Photographs by Lynn Donovan The gardens of Victoria and Neill Clegg exude mystery and [...]
Jane and Richard Green’s newly constructed house of happiness among some of Greensboro’s oldest By Cynthia Adams • Photographs by Amy Freeman Welcome to the happily realized vision of [...]
Freeman Kennett Architects and the reawakening of High Point By Jim Dodson • Photographs by Michael Blevins & Amy Freeman On a quiet afternoon as winter gives way to an early spring, [...]
“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields. . . Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.” Mary Oliver
By Ash Alder “And here is the serpent again,” wrote the late poet Mary Oliver, “dragging himself out from his nest of darkness . . . looking for the sun.” Three decades after she wrote it, [...]