Spanish garden and landscape designer Javier Mariátegui passed through Washington, D.C., in March 2017, on a U.S. tour of talks and discussion of his 2016 book, “Gardens for the Senses.” Here, he offers images and commentary about his home garden in Guadalajara.

A milkweed giveaway at the DuPont Circle Farmers Market on Sunday May 28, 2017 went by in a hurry, with people seeking the plant to support monarch butterflies.

I wasn’t really thinking about a home brew when my relationship with a coffee tree began in the late 1990s.

When lilacs new in the dooryard bloom.

It is as if a botanic bomb dropped and blew up in slow motion with foliage and blossoms.

Tomato seedling agitation. Geranium anti-aging gas. Mysterious lantana mortality. It’s all part of the puzzle of shipping plants.

A former USDA agronomist is sowing diverse rows as director of UDC’s research farm.

Back-to-back warm spells and cold snaps are putting apricot trees through their paces in southern Pennsylvania.