Neatly filling in the gap between the amaryllis and the March spring flower show, the Buffalo Botanical Gardens is putting on Night Lights—which is exactly what is sounds like. They got the idea from a similar (but outdoor) display at the nearby Heron, a semi-public park south of us. The lights are installed by this [...]
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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. […]
Annie Proulx's garden bibliography, as near as I can tell: Proulx, A., & Nichols, L. (1980). Sweet & hard cider: Making it, using it, & enjoying it. Charlotte, Vt: Garden Way Pub. Proulx, A. (1980). Great grapes: Grow the best ever. Pownal, Vt: Storey Communications. Proulx, A. (1980). Making...
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleOnline. Most garden magazines do not provide their print content online, or give only a sampling. So it's news that Upstate Gardener's Journal, an excellent resource for people in Central and Western New York, is now providing a digital edition for free on its website. UGJ is not a...
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleI trudged miles of aisles at a trade show in Baltimore the other day, amazed at how many tree-growers there ARE, but the most interesting discovery among the thousands of vendors was a small publisher who I’m convinced wants to do some good while making money. Though if he’d...
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleBlack Spot Awards are the thumb's-downs that "Renegade Gardener" Don Engebretson bestows on the gardening world from his Minnesota perch this time each. He pairs them with some High Spot Awards, of course, but some of us have a special affection for Don's bad reviews because they bring out...
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleTrey 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 PeopleLadies and Gents! Meet the circus clowns, magicians, and tattooed ladies of the green world! From Paula Gross, assistant director of the University of North Carolina Charlotte Botanical Gardens, and Larry Mellichamp, professor of botany and horticulture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and with a...
Read more in: It's the Plants, Darling, Unusually Clever PeopleWhen I happened upon the blog of landscape architect Thomas Rainer my first thought was: Why isn’t he guest-posting on GardenRant? Or alternatively, is his blog the Rant of landscape architecture? Seriously, look these thought- and passion-provoking posts: The New Manliness: Machismo through Dirty Diapers and Gardening His Earth...
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleGardening world, listen up! If you haven't yet heard Andrew Keys's new podcast for Horticulture Magazine, you are in for a treat – and a surprise. It's really good and in a really new way. A big fan of Ira Glass and "This American Life", his aim is to...
Read more in: GardenRant Airwaves, Unusually Clever PeopleYou 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 PeopleUPDATE: Win a copy. Just leave a comment here telling us why you need the book – by Sunday night 9 EST. Rosalind Creasy is the undisputed high priestess of growing food – beautifully. Her publisher calls her 1982 Edible Landscaping a "groundbreaking classic" and that's no exaggeration. But...
Read more in: Everybody's a Critic, Unusually Clever PeopleThe Tucson Botanical Gardens has taken this Wicked Plants thing one step further and created not only an exhibit, but a character named Dr. Ergot Ratbane and a mad scientist laboratory. How's that for a good gig–playing a mad scientist at a botanical garden? Meet Dr. Ratbane here, and...
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleWe have a winner. I was charmed by Kassie Schwan’s tribute to the late Henry Mitchell, whose Earthman essays I read last summer. Here it is: I tried thinking in the literary vein, but the winner today for me would be Henry Mitchell. He was a joy to read,...
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleMy vegetable garden, 2007 By the time I moved eight years ago, I'd made a really nice vegetable garden at my first house, backed by a lovely bed of roses and foxgloves. A few people said to me, "Aren't you sorry to leave your garden behind?" And my feeling...
Read more in: Eat This, Unusually Clever PeopleChristopher Lloyd’s legacy—both his garden writing and the magnificent Great Dixter—will never be forgotten. Not if Timber Press has anything to do with it. After publishing (posthumously) his book on exotic planting in 2007, the press has released a tribute to Lloyd and his famous property in East Sussex,...
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleFrom a story about Keith Richards on CBS's Sunday Morning At home, he's the 66-year-old guitarist with the green thumb, growing lemons like "hand grenades." "Yeah, it's amazing really, isn't it? This is in my spare time, I do this." But then you realize the two Keiths . ....
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleAnne Raver is the long-time garden writer for the New York Times, now an occasional contributor there. (Because yes, coincident with the rise of gardening, especially among the young, the Times has reduced it to an afterthought.) Over the weekend Anne spoke to the DC-area Rock Garden Society about...
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleI and many in the industry believe that there are simply too many new plants introduced each year, with too few of them being proved garden worthy. Pity the poor gardener who, faced with an overwhelming choice of plants, can hardly know which are the best to choose. With...
Read more in: It's the Plants, Darling, Unusually Clever PeopleWe last wrote about Peter Del Tredici's radically practical view of weeds wild urban plants here in Elizabeth's post and you get a hint of the controversy he's stirring up in Slate's report and his own piece in the Boston Globe. And guess what – I got to hear...
Read more in: Unusually Clever PeopleSince I'm complaining about overly elaborate advice in the vegetable garden of the kind offered by market growers and other "experts," you may well ask what kind of advice I do like. Actual science. See Gillman, Jeff and Chalker-Scott, Linda for this kind of thing. No-tech common sense. Poking...
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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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