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Seeing Gardens Differently
Do you really “see” the gardens you visit? I mean, do you see what the creator of that space wanted you to see? Do you see it the same way others do? Maybe. At times we may all have unseeing [...]
April is the cruellest month.
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. TS Eliot From The [...]
Contradictions of Sustainable Urban Horticulture and that Third Leg
So maybe our first goal in urban horticulture should be to use plants to benefit people and, extapolated from that, if a project is also environmentally and economically successful, then there is the bit we expected from horticulture in the first place.
A salute to forsythia in poetry and prose
With a poem by Barbara Browne Ah, forsythia. It’s brief season is coming to a close here in Western New York, but over the past couple weeks I think I have seen every kind of use or misuse of the [...]
“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
Dissing “Lawn People” AND “Lawn Dissidents”? It’s DEI Day in My Lawn Class
In scrolling through the course offerings at the University of Maryland, where I've been taking classes for several years, I came upon this one: "Lawns in the Landscape: Environmental Hero or Villain?" listed in both the Environmental [...]
A salute to forsythia in poetry and prose
With a poem by Barbara Browne Ah, forsythia. It’s brief season is coming to a close here in Western New York, but over the past couple weeks I think I have seen every kind of use or [...]
Defending Bad Taste
I'm absolutely amazed by how many plants there are. I know the plants in my garden well; I have paid for them and chose them above others. Yet every time I visit a garden or a nursery [...]
GardenRant Voices
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GUEST RANTS
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