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 [...]