LATEST RANTS
Apple Season Returns
As I walked through the garden I heard a thud. It was a particular type of thud, one that has become familiar to me over the last decade of gardening. The first apples fall from their trees with a particular [...]
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and is fire-wise gardening compatible with wildlife-friendly, water-wise gardening?
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's famous Meadow when I visited in July, past its spring flowering. In this third and last post from my recent trip to California, I cover the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, the mind-blowing challenges [...]
How I Survive the Dog Days of Summer
Crown Fritillary at Keukenhof Gardens Most of us greet the arrival of blooming bulbs in spring as a welcome sign that we’ve gotten to the far side of winter. While I love the first crocus as much as [...]
Starting a New Garden at Age 80
There is still time and happiness. As we all know, good flower gardens take time. Hours. Days. Weeks. Seasons. Years. Lives. Add it up: Winter evenings bent over seed catalogs and garden magazines. Spring working the soil and planting. [...]
“One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustier corners.”
– Washington Post gardening editor Adrian Higgins
The War on Invasive Species. Part III: Embrace Curiosity
GardenRant welcomes back garden ecologist Nathan Lambstrom, in Part III of a three-part series discussing invasive species rhetoric, and the negative effects powerful war metaphors have had on the perception and management of exotic and invasive plant species in [...]
Reclaiming The Sunflowers
The common sunflower, Helianthus annuus, is probably one of the widely recognised flowers on Earth. Native to a range across the US, from Mexico in the south to Canada in the north, the sunflower is now grown [...]
A Fence where no Fence could be.
If you’ve ever thought of edging a flower bed with proper professional stuff, you may have been astonished to find that the makers of garden edging assume you live in a flat garden. With no lumps or [...]
GardenRant Voices
GardenRant is the home of independent garden-writing since 2006. It is the work of these highly opinionated gardeners:
GUEST RANTS
GardenRant welcomes “guest ranters” who want to take over our little piece of cyberspace for the day. Whether you’re in the plant industry or just an ordinary gardener with an axe to grind, you’re invited. Find out more here.
