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Will AI Apps ChatGPT and Dall-E Change Garden-Writing?
ChatGPT for Text I bet you've noticed the buzz about new apps that use artificial intelligence and their potential impacts, especially Chat GPT, which creates works of writing based on prompts. The prompts include the topic and the [...]
Stop the Seed Steal?
An astonishing percentage of Republicans still believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen, though that fever seems to be simmering down slowly. The truth or nothing but the truth. It’s complicated. Thou shalt not steal elections or seeds? The jury [...]
Winter gardens are just sad
I don't find brown, lifeless plants particularly interesting. Many don't have any notable form or shape. They're just dead things sticking up with maybe some seeds or pods at the top. Not so interesting. Let the birds take the seeds, [...]
Cochineal and Contrast: A Letter to The Midwest
28 January 2023 Lovettsville, VA Dear Scott, Saturday morning and I’m sitting in the yellow chair I was sitting in when you annoyed me so badly with that Horticulture snark column on British garden writers a few years ago. And [...]
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Restoration Ecologists and Horticulturists Need To Work Together
I haven’t written for this site for quite a while, but today, nothing but a rant will do. In recent years I’ve become an enthusiastic advocate of incorporating ecology into our gardening. That was not always the [...]
An Honest Ranter’s Thoughts About Saving Your Amaryllis
Just because we CAN do a thing, doesn’t mean we SHOULD do a thing or even MUST do a thing. This applies as equally to saving tender plants as it does to committing murder; and for a [...]
An Honest Ranter’s Thoughts About Saving Your Amaryllis
Just because we CAN do a thing, doesn’t mean we SHOULD do a thing or even MUST do a thing. This applies as equally to saving tender plants as it does to committing murder; and for a [...]
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