Christmas present image via Shutterstock. As we do most years around this time, we’re putting out a call for your holiday garden gift ideas–with the stipulation that they must be handmade. Arts and crafts, one-of-a-kind, made by an actual person because they like making stuff–those sorts of gifts. If you make garden or botanical themed [...]
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Body: Posted by Bert CreggLast week I posted about some horticultural disasters I witnessed in the Czech Republic. This week the chamber of horrors. […]
Biodiverse Lawn by Coalition Member Thomas Christopher Like other members of this group, I believe that the contemporary model of lawn has got to go.. […]
Body: Posted by Linda Chalker-Scott If you've been following us for a while, you might remember a post from August 2009 when I got cranky about a pot. […]
Can you believe it’s almost December? It happened again. I let the early fall slip away, finding myself with almost 1200 bulbs, a front and back yard covered in leaves, and now—it’s snowing. I don’t mind winter, really. I enjoy the time away from gardening, and I like imagining...
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In roaming my new neighborhood, one of my favorite stops is our Community Center, built in a simplified Art Deco style with five bas relief sculptures along its front facade. (They’re sometimes called friezes but friezes are generally higher up, just under the roof line.) This building, like the...
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“Why do you love what you do?” This was a question posed last month at the annual conference of the Eastern Region of the International Plant Propagators Societyin the Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania. The joyful reply came from Joe LaMent (a fellow whose name in no way fits his personality)...
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Next up in our ongoing “Get a Job” series is the delightful Emma Alpaugh, senior publicist at Timber Press. Here she is looking surprisingly unharried. Don’t let that fool you! What do you do for a living? I am Senior Publicist at Timber Press, a Portland, Oregon, publisher of...
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This week begins a month (more or less) of eating—and drinking. Thanksgiving looms large, but after that there is also a continual round of work parties, holiday dinners, cookie-making parties, and excuses to drink Tom & Jerrys. The gift-buying part of Christmas might be a drag, but I like...
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Somehow or other, this time of year I always come across the olde leaves-in-borders debate: To remove them now or wait until spring (or never, letting them decompose slowly)? This year it started innocently enough with a blog post for a garden center about what parts of my garden...
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Dear Penthouse Letters: I never thought it could happen to me. I mean, me? S&M? NO WAY. Then I realized… Gardening, for me, was masochism. It’s true. For years, I was a virtual slave to plants I lusted after but couldn’t grow. How voluptuous were lilacs and peonies when...
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Ever dream of quitting your day job and pursuing your passion for plants? Do what you love and the money will follow, that sort of thing? Well. We here at GardenRant World Headquarters know quite a few people who have done just that. So we called them up...
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You might not know we reelected a president last week from reading this site. We try to stick to gardening politics. But presidents do have an effect on environmental policies, conservation, farming and—eventually—gardening. A few years back I posted about the ten greenest presidents in U.S, history, according to...
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Marijuana’s Going Legal Hard to believe, but America’s long prohibition against marijuana may be coming to an end, at least in places like Colorado and Washington State, both of which voted this week to legalize pot. And that’s for recreation, not for any medical purpose, real or phony. In...
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image via Shutterstock Another giveaway, another winner, chosen at random–and the planter box goes to Caitlin, who plans to pass it on to her mother who gardens in heavy clay. Thanks, people!
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I’m convinced that once the basics are in place in a vegetable garden–namely a lot of sun, good soil, and sufficient water–timing is the most crucial factor for success. Vegetables generally go from seed to plate in the course of a single season. This is a dramatic transformation, one...
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At first I wasn’t sure that showing the paintings of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera together, along with all the biographical drama that comes with that, was such a great idea. I’m somewhat of a purist when it comes to looking at art—I want to be able to assess...
Read more in: But is it Art?Ebooks rarely go on sale, but this month two of mine are available through special promotions if you want them: For the month of November only, pick up Flower Confidential for $1.99 as an ebook at Apple, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, Kobo, Google, and Amazon. Wicked Bugs...
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Ranter James Rousch recently lamented that Garden Literature is going Up in Smoke, based on his count of 87 pot-growing books currently on offer at the local Barnes and Noble. I recently read one of them myself (to review, I swear!) – the excellent Supercharged from Timber Press, which...
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Michele’s recent post about walking in the woods made me miss my own woodland path just a bit – the one that started IN my garden, the one I walked for 26 years. But then I looked around at the woods near me now and, as I boasted on...
Read more in: Grab Bagimage via Shutterstock. We have winners! Chosen at random by asking my uncle Walter to pick a number, the winners are: David for the Clarington Forge rubber rake, and Geri for the new book THE ROOTS OF MY OBSESSION. Thanks for playing, everybody!
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This snazzy pair of planter boxes arrived on my doorstep for review a couple months ago, just as I was getting ready to build a new garden that called for some planter boxes. (You can check out the details from the manufacturer here, but if you actually want to...
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The Fedco Trees catalog has arrived, and once again I find myself failing to pay any attention to my children and job. The Fedco catalog is not just informative, it’s entertaining, and so are the hundreds of different fruit trees it offers. I prefer ordering fruit trees from catalogs...
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Commented on Kale-a-Rama makes me Wonder: Is Veganism the Next Big Thing? { WHAT A BUNCH OF MANURE............ THE TROLL } – May 18, 10:42 AM
Commented on Kale-a-Rama makes me Wonder: Is Veganism the Next Big Thing? { Thank you! } – May 18, 8:54 AM
Commented on Kale-a-Rama makes me Wonder: Is Veganism the Next Big Thing? { I am nearly vegetarian also. I like how you put it. But I do find that it requires a little more effort in the kitchen.... } – May 18, 8:38 AM
Commented on Plant Ideas Needed for Biodiverse Lawn { I see many stories in print and on the web about this issue and wonder why no one ever mentions that most of the choices... } – May 18, 6:58 AM
Commented on Kale-a-Rama makes me Wonder: Is Veganism the Next Big Thing? { Hello Garden Rant please look at the 3 links I provided above, hope you find them helpful. } – May 18, 4:00 AMWe are:
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