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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, [...]

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, [...]

Back to Nature Sustainable gardening is easier than you might think By Cheryl Capaldo Traylor   Over the past few years, “sustainable” has become quite the buzzword. But what does [...]