Guest Rant by Layanee DeMerchant I confess; I’m caught up in the romance and intrigue of the PBS series, “Downton Abbey.” I’m enjoying the fashion, the opulence and the stunning backdrop of a castle, on top of the great acting and the fascinating changes going on in British society at that time, so unfamiliar to [...]
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Garden Rant on January 19, 2013 at 8:43 am This post has 52 responses.
UPDATE: If you missed the show, here’s the story about weeds. And to answer a commenter asking about a book mentioned, it’s Foraged Flavor by Wong. From CBS, via press release: To some, weeds are the scourge of the earth, killing precious crops along the way. To others, however,...
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Susan Harris on August 17, 2012 at 10:25 pm This post has 6 responses.
TV Show about Lawns in Development We’ve been ranting for years now about the dearth of gardening shows on TV, so imagine my surprise to hear there’s a new show about lawns coming from Country Music Television! Yeah, I’d never heard of them, either, but I’m told they’re the...
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Susan Harris on August 14, 2012 at 9:35 am This post has 6 responses.
Recently this message went out to the Yahoo group of one of Washington’s tonier neighborhoods, with the title “Beautiful perennial garden in back yard needed for TV Commercial.” Would anyone be interested in having a tv commercial shot in their back yard one day around the third week in...
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Susan Harris on July 24, 2012 at 7:00 am This post has 13 responses.
I’ve been blabbing away about Garden Walk Buffalo, which is a free tour of only 380 or so gardens. What I should have mentioned is that is is the centerpiece of a larger, month-long garden festival that offers 1,000 gardens to visitors, including a a weekly Open...
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Elizabeth Licata on July 23, 2012 at 7:19 am This post has Comments Off.
Like many of you, I stopped watching garden shows on HGTV when they effectively dropped the “G”. But during my recent adventure in the buying and selling of houses – one each – I watched their real estate shows like a crazywoman. Could not get enough of them, as...
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Susan Harris on June 20, 2012 at 10:49 am This post has 41 responses.
Susan has written about this movie before, here and here. Now the folks at Oprah's OWN network have contacted us to share a trailer and let us know that it will be airing on Sunday. Check it out: Watch the Trailer for A Man Named Pearl That pretty...
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Amy Stewart on December 15, 2011 at 3:58 am This post has 12 responses.
Thanks to Andrew Pulte for sharing this. Happy Wednesday, y'all.
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Amy Stewart on August 17, 2011 at 2:03 pm This post has 3 responses.
This comes to us from David Perry, an amazing photographer of gardens and other assorted stuff (see his photographs and a project he's working on with Debra Prinzing on sustainable cut flowers here) and–well–this is what David does in his spare time. We pass it on to you. ...
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Amy Stewart on April 27, 2011 at 6:07 am This post has 13 responses.
26 episodes. 8 months. 18 states. 36 cities. 254 stations. 4,058 tweets. Joe Lamp'l's PBS show Growing a Greener World has wrapped up its first season, and they've got a cool summary reel that looks back over their first year on the air. (It'll be worth watching through...
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Amy Stewart on March 23, 2011 at 4:53 am This post has 12 responses.
When I first heard about the movie "Gnomeo and Juliet", I wasn't exactly optimistic about a movie about garden gnomes, especially if it's in 3D. But here's what NPR's Kenneth Turan has to say about it: What's in a name, after all? No one could be more surprised...
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Susan Harris on February 14, 2011 at 4:43 am This post has 9 responses.
Technically, it’s been solenostemon for years, but I don’t know anyone, even the most die-hard of botanical name purists, refer to it as anything but coleus. And that’s the way it should be. Joseph/Greensparrow Gardens has similar feelings about this and other preemptory and seemingly arbitrary scientific name changes....
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Elizabeth Licata on February 12, 2011 at 5:00 am This post has 6 responses.
Imagine 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...
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Amy Stewart on December 1, 2010 at 3:32 am This post has 33 responses.
I love this Goats v. Landscapers story on the Colbert Report. You'll meet the Soprano-like owner of a yard maintenance company and a goat-services entrepreneur named Tammy. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c People Destroying America- Goats Steal Landscaping Jobs www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010...
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Susan Harris on October 16, 2010 at 8:11 am This post has 9 responses.
As you have no doubt heard by now, Oprah is holding an open casting call for would-be hosts for her new network. Even the front runners are not particularly slick–I'm amazed that people who want to have their own TV show don't even bother to find a nice background...
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Amy Stewart on July 1, 2010 at 3:18 pm This post has 9 responses.
I've never watched CBS's Undercover Boss but tonight's boss is in the flower biz, so I'll be there. 9 Eastern.
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Susan Harris on April 11, 2010 at 7:56 am This post has 8 responses.
Well, look who’s trying some Maryland crab cakes at a Baltimore pub but The Gardener Guy himself, Paul James! Yes, Paul was my date Saturday night for some serious drinking and eating after his talk at a home show not far from me. Now it may take a while...
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Susan Harris on March 29, 2010 at 2:20 pm This post has 13 responses.
Have you been wondering what the deal was with the Olympic flowers? I have. When I first saw the yellow/chartreuse bouquets, I wondered if they had some kind of significance to Vancouver, because they are so unlike the traditional flowers you might expect—any color roses would be the norm,...
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Elizabeth Licata on February 20, 2010 at 5:00 am This post has 15 responses.
Guest Rant by Ginny Stibolt, the Transplanted Gardener I don't have cable and don't watch HGTV, except rarely on other people's TVs. So maybe I've missed some of the details, but it appears that the landscaping for their 2010 green home in Plymouth, Mass. sets a bad example for...
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Susan Harris on February 10, 2010 at 9:37 am This post has 18 responses.
photo credit: Melinda Sue Gordon, Universal Studios Great piece from the LA Times on Meryl Streep's character's garden in "It's Complicated." Director Nancy Meyers is known for her real-estate-porn-for-middle-aged-women approach to set design (remember Diane Keaton's house in "Something's Gotta Give"?) Well, she took the same approach to this...
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Amy Stewart on January 6, 2010 at 6:34 am This post has 33 responses.
