LATEST RANTS
Catching up with Green Roof Guru/Citizen Scientist Ed Snodgrass
Ed Snodgrass is best known for the green roof plants he grows at his nursery in Maryland and his green-roof consulting around the world. After first visiting his "farm" in 2016, I declared the garden shown here the most beautiful [...]
No Way is There One Way to Garden
There’s more than one way to do everything. In gardening. In life. In planting an apple tree, or peeling apples over the sink. Certainly there are rules that guide us (don’t use a dull knife), and experts that sway us [...]
The Anderson Twp Urban Farm: So Much More Than Too Many Tomatoes
I love what this garden represents, what it's doing, and all it will do. Good people working the soil, growing healthy food, feeding the pollinators, meeting each other, and playing. Yes, playing.
Winter interest? I can’t even try for fall interest.
This year’s Fling - a yearly get-together for garden bloggers, grammers and tubers - is the first to take place during the fall, from September 21 - 24. Or close enough, with the autumnal equinox happening on September 23. It’s [...]
“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
A familiar voice speaks out on natives and pollinators
Well, look who’s thrown his famous hat in the ring of the often-contentious discussion around pollinators and native plants. It’s Friend of Rant Allan Armitage, the author of Herbacious Perennial Plants, who has often contributed guest opinions [...]
The Apiaceae and Questionable Mental (and Physical) Health (in September): A Letter from the Midwest
While these hostas are blooming in the darker spaces, the phlox are rocking the sun. And have been for seemingly months.
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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