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You might say Park Heights has a new attitude. This community of approximately 30,000 residents is experiencing a wave of new homeowners and development projects.
- Learn about planting edible plants in small spaces and find out why some seeds have yet to bud and ways to get them to start growing.
- The new owners of this Sparks estate can greet guests from a covered porch at the front of the house and serve them cocktails on a rear patio.
Most popular features
- The nearly 4-acre lot is lovely with rolling hills, a fire pit, ample space for hammocks and manicured beds for gardening
- This end-of-unit town house boasts not just access to a sand beach, but also beautiful vistas of Chesapeake Bay.
- The buyers of this working equestrian center will purchase a piece of Maryland horse racing and industrial history.
- With Spring in full effect, Marylanders can celebrate the 150th anniversary of National Arbor Day on April 29 by planting native tree sapling, or learn about the spotted lantern fly (SLF), who is showing up more in Maryland gardens.
- This architecturally unique Craftsman-style house was built by a master cabinet maker as his dream home and is an homage to the beauty of wood.
- With Earth Day around the corner (April 22), learn how to be more mindful about how landscaping choices affect the environment and how to attract caterpillars to personal nurseries to get an up-close view into the metamorphosis of butterflies.
Things to do
- The original home was built in 1654 as part of the first permanent English settlement in Maryland.
- It will take a multi-pronged approach to successfully protect your vegetable garden from those pesty intruders.
- Weeding by hand can get old - or painful. Instead, try inorganic or organic mulches and groundcovers to reduce the number of weeds.
- The house overlooks Worthington Valley, Sagamore farm, and the prized American Thoroughbred horses bred here.
- The appeal of this more than 7-acre property lies as much outside as it does inside.
- We say soil has “health” because it’s composed of an incredible number of living things in addition to the rocky minerals it originally eroded from.
- Edward P. McBride, an Irish immigrant and a retired photoengraver who was the longtime genial host of “Reflections of Ireland” on WTMD-FM and later WHFC-FM, died Friday at his Nottingham home.
- Rock out to a '90s band, check out a powerful documentary, see where classic and modern art intersect, take a ride with a children’s favorite character and see dreams interpreted as artwork.
- For generations, the state’s famed seafood industry depended on Black women to pick blue crabs, but in the past few decades, many local pickers have left the industry for new jobs.
- Arnold C. Rifkin, a Korean War veteran and pioneering WJZ-TV engineer who late in life had a second career as a chef, died May 4 of complications from dementia May 4 at his Pikesville home. He was 93.
- The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club will host its one-day bottle show April 3 at Howard County Fairgrounds for the first time in its 41-year history.
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‘Audible,’ a short documentary on a Maryland School for the Deaf football player, competes for Oscar
A documentary capturing the life of a senior at the Maryland School for the Deaf is competing for an Oscar.
