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I cleaned up my garden. Fight me.
Spring in Western New York is fleeting, maybe just a little bit more than a state of mind. The actual gardening season from early summer to mid-fall is more substantial, but still short enough. The other day, our Facebook gardening [...]
That time I started a “native” prairie
Guest rant from Jack Kramer Our current home of eighteen years is sited on a one-and-a-half acre lot, originally part wooded and part field. I had told the builder to leave a section of the field undisturbed, thus earmarking this [...]
The Power of Names: Why generic labels disrespect horticulture and the plant-buying public
By C.L. Fornari Sparky, a Sato, wonders why he's being asked to sit next to a Hydrangea, tentatively identified as a H. macrophylla 'Sandy Summer' I went to the grocery store recently, and when I checked out, my [...]
In Defense of Inclusive Biodiversity
As a follow up to Elizabeth’s post last week remarking on the sorrowful tone of Margaret Renkl’s NYT article on non-native spring color, The AHS kindly allowed GardenRant to run an excerpt of my recent column in The American Gardener [...]
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– Washington Post gardening editor Adrian Higgins
They better not be coming after my bulbs!
Who isn’t ready to see spring flowers? I appreciated Susan’s enthusiastic survey of April blooms in Capitol Region public gardens. I’m also eagerly awaiting my own bulb display (shown here from previous springs), which I put together [...]
Social Distancing Guidelines for the Garden
For over a year I have looked forward to a time when there would no longer be the heavy burden of social distancing. Visits with friends were scarce during the pandemic. I worried that fist bumping might [...]
Cornell on Lawn Care: Do Less!
Because it's early spring and ads telling us to "green up" our lawns are starting to proliferate, it's time for some expert lawn-care advice from people who give a damn about the environment. Do less and have [...]
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