image 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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Thoughts about our garden. “We desire,” the Emporer dictated, “that in the garden there should be all kinds of plants.” Charlemagne the Gre. […]
Body: posted by Holly Scoggins Of course we want to buy locally-grown plants! There are a gazillion sound reasons to do so. In a paper that may be f. […]
While reading the latest issue of Better Homes and Gardens, I stumbled upon a new (to me) trend in outdoor living: Outdoor Televisions! Phew! It’s. […]
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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Hey, guess what? The classic SQUARE FOOT GARDENING is available as an ebook this month for $2.99. Each month Amazon lists 100 ebooks priced at $3.99 or less, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see some garden books featured there. This one apparently sells for around $20 normally...
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Last year, we posted about this fancy rubber rake from Clarington Forge. Those people make all kinds of amazing, once-in-a-lifetime garden tools, many of them hand-forged by actual British people. But the rake in particular is really something amazing. You see, it has rubber tines, which means that...
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It’s Green Festival time in DC (and for LA and SF) and I stopped by to see what’s going on in the gardening world and was pleased to find more garden-related vendors than usual. (Though among speakers, not so much.) First, I discovered some local gardening coaches at Love...
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The ample rain two weeks ago was enough to green up the buffalo grass and provide some much needed relief to the perennials here in Kansas. It also brought some relief to area gardeners, not from the sweltering heat, which continues to stress my garden and its gardener daily, but it...
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We reported in January that Scotts Miracle-Gro had entered a guilty plea for knowingly selling bird food they’d poisoned with a pesticide (to prolong its shelf life) and was slapped with a $4.5 million fine. “Too low!” some critics cried. Well, turns out it’s $12.5 mil, with more legal...
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In just 80 seconds it manages to be bold, provocative, and ballsy, to quote Paul Tukey on the Safe Lawns blog. He reports that this ad was the talk of Chicago at the recent Independent Garden Center Show there. I just bet! (And yes, it closely...
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Heronswood, the revered botanical garden created in Kingston, Washington by plant collector Dan Hinkley and his partner, architect Robert Jones, as an adjunct to the nursery they founded in 1987, was put up for a sealed bid auction last month by its owner of the last 12 years, W....
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Well, we didn’t really test them. Why? Because they arrived last fall, after the rain had already started, and by the time we decided we really did have to post a video or do something about them–the rain still had not stopped. Genevieve Schmidt and I live in a...
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You may have noticed that GardenRant has been a total swagfest lately, what with all the giveaways of tools and books and other such freebies. Well, there’s a reason for that: I’m living in Portland for two months, having temporarily joined the faculty of Portland State University as a...
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And the Fiskars fun continues. They have also offered to give you people anUpRoot Weeder, another tool that Gen and I reviewed last year. If you have a lawn, or some other part of your garden that gets overrun with little annoying weeds, this is the most fun toy ever....
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As an unabashed fan of independent garden centers, I enjoy scoffing at their Big Box competitors – the plants, the heavy-on-the-chemicals products, and worst of all, the gardening advice they give to unwitting customers. But guess what! According to this announcement, their garden department staff are now getting some training...
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Do you remember last year when we reviewed some Fiskars tools and gave a few away? Remember those PowerGear Loppers? I wrote about them here, and Gen wrote about them at North Coast Gardening. Now that I’ve had a pair for a year or so, I can tell you that they...
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There’s a new product in the works, and the makers have asked students at the University of St. Thomas (“one of the most highly renowned business schools in the globe,” they tell me) to research “the best way to get into our consumers minds and figure out what their...
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Free plants! Which I love! Usually. When, in the course of social media events, it becomes necessary for a group of bloggers to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with a bunch of well-intentioned but sometimes irritating marketing people, and to assume among the powers of the...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarFrom Ball Publishing's Acres Online we received the following press release. Fox, MSNBC Launch Political Plant BrandsLate-breaking news from Spring Trials ⦠Two new plant brands are coming onto the market, and both are aimed at capitalizing on the coming political season. In its first-ever foray into floriculture, Fox...
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I have a serious case of “exciting new website launch” fatigue right now. Every day a thrilling new announcement lands in my inbox about some groundbreaking new digital initiative that I absolutely must get in on–now, right now. And I just cannot bring myself to care about any of...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarWhen I attend the Philadelphia Flower Show I always arrive just as it opens and head straight for the displays and competitions (hopefully before the place gets insanely crowded). Then it’s time to do some shopping! Here are the products that caught my eye this year. So what do...
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Commented on The Animals and Garden Amenities of Plantsman David Culp { Well, for me it depends on what kind of stuff. I love David's taste, though - in everything, as far as I noticed in his... } – May 25, 12:27 PM
Commented on The Animals and Garden Amenities of Plantsman David Culp { Exquisite. Love the book. Love your post. } – May 25, 11:39 AM
Commented on The Animals and Garden Amenities of Plantsman David Culp { What a perfect garden and I love that you loved the STUFF. Stuff can be a no no to some of the more snobish garden... } – May 25, 10:14 AM
Commented on Cats in the Garden - Solutions Only { In my experience, the presence of domestic cats does have an impact on the wildlife levels in a garden. By wildlife I mean birds, rodents,... } – May 25, 8:05 AM
Commented on The Animals and Garden Amenities of Plantsman David Culp { How? Serendipity! a Locust tree with a know hole to fill ... beautiful. } – May 25, 6:28 AMWe are:
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