Yesterday I mentioned that chinaberry, Melia azedarach, was an invasive species I’d loved. Over the next several months I’ll be introducing you to a menagerie of plants that take me back to my childhood in the Deep South, and chinaberry is one. My chinaberry memories are all wrapped up in Harper Lee, the perfect mixture [...]

Pronunciation // I don’t know how I found it, and I’m a bit unnerved that it bears such a close resemblance to dastardly tree of heaven, but this much I do know: Toona sinensis ‘Flamingo’ is a tree, and it’s pink. It’s big, it’s bad, and it’s pink. And that makes it badass. It is [...]

I mention on the About page I plan to talk about a variety of things that inspire me here, including music, and I feel I should introduce a regular feature by the name of Play. Nothing fancy, just a song a week, or two, or three, with the minimum of personal introduction here and there, [...]

Pronunciation // In the fall of 2008, I bought two Baptisia Twilite Prairieblues™ at half-off. I was on a budget AND a mission, as ever, agonizing over what to buy, and I don’t know what possessed me to I buy two –- not one, for specimen planting; not three, for a nice group –- of [...]

Hey! You’ve reached the online home of Andrew Keys, aka AK, landscape designer, web designer, music enthusiast, writer and bon vivant. I have a whole passel of content to share with you, but I figured first we should make introductions. Say hi back if you like — otherwise tune in early and often, same bat [...]