Katie Rehwaldt hoped that 50 people would show up. Instead, 150 appeared. “We ended up having to take over the whole second floor,” she said. That was 1O years ago at the Josephine Butler Parks Center in Columbia Heights, the inaugural site of Rooting DC. Since then, attendance has climbed steadily for the assembly of…

A pumpkin’s passing.

Is your favorite forest bird on the official list of 43 species detected in Glover Archbold National Park?

Care taken in a Washington Gas line routing might protect a garden.

Citrus is under siege by greening disease, but Meyer lemon for home gardens gets a boost.

Jacob W. Frank, Carol M. Highsmith, and Jim Peaco helped celebrate the National Park Service’s centennial and highlight the “100 Years: America’s National Park Service” photo exhibit at the Smithsonian.

It isn’t every year that my Meyer lemon tree produces a fruit measuring 10 inches around and 5.5 inches long. In fact, until this year, it never had. It was a concentrated effort. Not another of the spring blossoms yielded fruit. In November, I brought the tree inside and installed it in its winter quarters…

A.M. GILD: Morning lights the western heights of Glover Archbold National Park, south of Garfield Street. © 2016 John A. Bray

Finn and Amanda Donaldson must have had a good feeling about the condominium that they looked at in McLean Gardens. That same day, they also put their names on the waiting list for a plot in The Newark Street Community Garden, located across the street. It turned out to be quicker to move into the…

Muscadines, a southern comfort grape, can be grown productively in Washington, D.C.