Thanks to everyone who is reporting in from garden shows. I just got back from the Portland Yard, Garden, and Patio Show, which turns out to be quite a slick show at Portland's big downtown convention center. Easily accessible by light rail, a large and comfortable space, and pretty good food by garden show standards–veggie [...]
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Body: Posted by Bert CreggLots of coverage in the mainstream media these days over various initiatives to label GMO foods. I think GMO foods shoul. […]
Body: posted by Holly Scoggins Mosses are soft, green, and tough as nails, as shown in a recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of. […]
Things have been rough at work lately. Test scores have plummetted, students are troubled, many teachers are talking mutiny or early retirement. . […]
Yes. Thanks to Neatorama, I found out that there is such a thing as a plantable comic book. They contain two seed-infused sheets of paper, with either herbs (The Gardener) and wildflowers (April Showers). The idea is to make comic books more sustainable, but it’s kind of symbolic because...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarGen rides off into the sunset with her toys from Fiskars. Okay, this is it: We have finally worked our way through the last of the tools Fiskars sent us a few weeks ago. I have to say, this one was the most fun for me, because it's a...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarGenevieve Schmidt hates my buddleias. I hate them too, a little bit. But there's something about those flowers. How can you not love this? I know, I know, I know. They're weedy, they shed, and they're total thugs. It's frightening how much they want to grow. I left a...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarFirst–we have a winner for last week's Cuts+More giveaway. The scissors go to Sally, who writes, I raise dahlias in raised fieldstone beds by a quiet pond in Northeast PA and broke my little Fiskar deadheading scissors last fall. Dinner plate dahlias were too much for them. This spring...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarIf a freshly hatched marketing plan has anything to do with it, the words “Got bulb?” will soon be on the lips of formerly bulb-apathetic gardeners everywhere. According to an article spotted in garden industry trade mag Garden Center, a group of bulb companies affiliated with Dutch bulb industry...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarOpening a beer with my new scissors. No beer for Ladybird! Last week, Genevieve Schmidt of North Coast Gardening showed up at my house with a box full of freebies from Fiskars. We played around with them in my backyard and offered up our opinions in these here...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarThis has been sitting in a box in an upstairs room for about a year and a half. You know how that happens. I finally took the PlantCam out and set it up (very easy). As some of you know, this device takes pictures at set intervals for...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarSeed catalog browsing is all very well, but when the temps have a “minus” in their name, seed catalogs are not enough. In addition to traveling to where flowers are always in bloom and growing bulbs indoors, I have been contemplating the possibilities of locally-grown cut flowers becoming part...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarA guest rant from Joseph Tychonievich. See more of Joseph's cartoons here. (Joseph was a popular attendee of garden bloggers' Buffa10. Many of us wanted to adopt him.)
Read more in: Guest Rants, Taking Your Gardening DollarTrey Pitsenberger has been online as The Blogging Nurseryman since 2005 and commenting here on the Rant since we started a year later. Yeah, he's definitely an early adopter, as he recalls in a recent message to Independent Garden Centers and Nurseries. He tells the story of having been...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening Dollar, Unusually Clever PeopleUpdate: Head over to the Algonquin Books Blog for another chance to win some seeds! As some of you know, I planted a poison garden while I was working on Wicked Plants. I'd never grown, much less seen, some of the plants in the book, and it's just too...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarWe’ve all been hearing about a leaked EPA memo that appeared a few days ago, linking colony collapse disorder to Bayer CropScience and the pesticide clothianidin, which the company wants to use on mustard seed and cotton. This pesticide attacks the nervous system of insects; it is used to...
Read more in: Ministry of Controversy, Taking Your Gardening DollarSo here's what I find interesting about this Monrovia story, from a gardener's perspective. Monrovia is a big ol' grower of popular and familiar plants, and you know how I feel about popular and familiar plants, especially when they've got a corporate logo plastered across the pot. Mass-produced. Predictable....
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarYou people did not make it easy to choose a winner. I chose a few favorite and then drew one at random–and our winner of a Clarington Forge spade is: Benjamin, the poet, the writer, with this clever and thoughtful entry: Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus Reach out and...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening Dollar, Unusually Clever PeopleThis just in: Monrovia, facing a serious cash crunch, has asked garden centers to hurry up and order some plants so they can raise the $20 million the banks want to see on their balance sheet by January. According to the story, the banks also want to see them...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarAs promised, here's a round-up of some of the very cool things you people make and sell and would like to share right now, during the holiday shopping frenzy. You are all so clever and creative that we just can't stand it. While self-promotion can be a little weird,...
Read more in: But is it Art?, Taking Your Gardening DollarImagine my delight when Clarington Forge sent a box of English garden tools all the way to northern California. Genevieve Schmidt of NorthCoastGardening is known for making actual useful, instructive videos about garden tools–not the kind of rambling, intoxicated things we normally do on GardenRant — so Gen and...
Read more in: I Don't Have a Garden, but I Watch One on TV, Taking Your Gardening DollarThis is for the Troy-Bilt story-sharing snow thrower contest. John wins his choice of the Flurry 1400 or the 3090XP for his comment. I chose it because it was about snow fun. I regret to say I haven't had this kind of fun in the snow for many years....
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening DollarSo there's been a discussion on Facebook with a certain artistic garden writer about how she really must make her beautiful artwork available for sale as holiday cards. She's promised us that she will, and that got me thinking: Who else makes cool stuff that holiday shoppers might want...
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Commented on A Stump Story { Thanks Emily, that's cool. I re-learned something the vikings were onto. } – Jun 18, 11:00 PM
Commented on Plants we Love to Hate { I like many of the flowers listed such as hyacinth, coneflower, lambs ears, and geraniums. I like most sweet blooming flowers/bulbs. I appreciate anyone who... } – Jun 18, 10:56 PM
Commented on Red on red { It's Blaze. } – Jun 18, 9:47 PM
Commented on Plants we Love to Hate { I love bearded iris the way I love the organdy ruffles on one summer blouse - not everywhere in the garden, not for everyday wear... } – Jun 18, 7:37 PM Commented on Red on red { Who cares . . . you had me at "light fragrance;" I like rose scent but some of the really heavily-scented ones can smell like... } – Jun 18, 7:33 PMWe are:
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