Fans of garden designer/on-air talent Shirley Bovshow are encouraged to click here to view and vote for her show idea for Oprah’s new TV network. Even if you’re thinking “Who’s Shirley?” you could vote for her to register your support for more gardening on television. Either way.
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This Week's Podcast: Gardening Equals...
It's been a while since we reviewed gardening podcasts, so it's time for an update and hopefully, your recommendations – I need more for the little iPod Shuffle that keeps me company in the garden. It may just be that there are really very few American podcasts about gardening. ...
Read more in: GardenRant AirwavesVia Treehugger: What’s happening at Chelsea is a complete 180 from the frou-frou image of flowers shows. Judges gave the gold to a Rainforest Garden set in Carmeroon, designed by four women indigenous to the the disappearing forests. The silver went to an urban garden that’s improving the lives...
Read more in: What's HappeningDon’t miss this story about how neighborhoods are being cleaned up and communities created by the simple but bureaucratically challenging act of putting gates at the end of alleyways. And you can tell from photos like this that plants – potted or spilling over fences – are the most...
Read more in: What's HappeningSusan reviewed her book Gardening for a Lifetime here, as you know, and I had a chance to talk to Sydney Eddison on the NPR program On Point Wednesday morning. It was fun, though there was plenty of opportunity for intimidation. Eddison has been gardening on 2 acres for...
Read more in: GardenRant Airwaves, Unusually Clever PeopleNational Public Garden Day may be new to you – it's only in its second year – but it's bringing some much- deserved and -needed attention to the places most gardenblog readers already know and love. And GardenRant's quite happy to help spread the love because we're fans. First...
Read more in: What's HappeningI've never watched CBS's Undercover Boss but tonight's boss is in the flower biz, so I'll be there. 9 Eastern.
Read more in: I Don't Have a Garden, but I Watch One on TVA GardenRant shout-out to Adrian Higgins at the Washington Post for his stirring endorsement of Extension Services and related Master Gardener programs. Sadly, what makes it newsworthy are the recent cuts the Virginia legislature made in state funding, which effectively guts some very successful programs in Northern Virginia. Higgins...
Read more in: What's HappeningWell, 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...
Read more in: I Don't Have a Garden, but I Watch One on TVA Chemical Reaction, the story of Hudson, Ontario's battle to ban garden pesticides – a battle that's now spread across most of Canada – debuted in D.C. Friday night, part of our DC Environmental Film Festival, and your intrepid blogger was there. I'd seen it once and knew it...
Read more in: What's HappeningDid you hear? TruGreen (formerly and more honestly called ChemLawn) signed on to sponsor Earth Day 2010 and get a nice chunk of good PR (more honestly called greenwashing). In a blog post, Paul Tukey declared "It’s all sickening, misleading and yet another example of an unfortunate sellout. Can...
Read more in: What's HappeningSince I wrote last week about Lowes's new garden bloggers and those of us blogging for independent garden centers, it's been fun seeing such enthusiasm for the garden-center blogs and everyone rallying to help them succeed. (Aren't we all passionate gardeners pretty much addicted to our local indie garden...
Read more in: What's HappeningGardenRant readers don't need to be convinced that blogs are awesome – at least some of them, your favorites – but the big news is that the business world is getting on board the blog-train, too. Here's a couple of stellar examples of corporate blogs. What you see...
Read more in: Taking Your Gardening Dollar, What's HappeningHave 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,...
Read more in: I Don't Have a Garden, but I Watch One on TVGuest 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...
Read more in: I Don't Have a Garden, but I Watch One on TVGardenRant edition. The whole newsletter is right here. Urban Gardening on the Web Outstanding original reporting on school food by Slow Cook Ed Bruske in his Tales from a DC Kitchen. That led to this interview on the Kojo Show. Urban gardeners – all gardeners – need to know...
Read more in: What's Happeningphoto 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...
Read more in: I Don't Have a Garden, but I Watch One on TVThanks to the whole national push for healthier eating and thinner kids, politicians and regular people are rallying support for school gardens. Here's what's happening in my neck of the woods. In Montgomery County, MD: Food Deemed too Dangerous Hard as it is to believe, my county school board's...
Read more in: What's HappeningI wanted to share the experience of talking to Pavord, because it was so much fun, and looking at the book, because it’s so fabulous.
Read more in: I Don't Have a Garden, but I Watch One on TV, Unusually Clever PeopleFinally, after four years in the making, the Sustainable Sites Initiative's rating system for design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes was announced this week at the U.S. Botanic Garden in D.C. It's a rating system for any site at all – not just around buildings or throughout residential...
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