Should We Have Moved to Seattle? This Gardener’s Heart Says Maybe.

By Marianne Willburn|2022-06-25T11:23:40-04:00June 25, 2022|Real Gardening|8 Comments

Fresh from speaking to the Northwest Perennial Alliance’s Hardy Plant Study Weekend in Seattle, Washington last weekend, and seeing the greatest concentration of home gardens (and enthusiastic home gardeners) I have probably ever seen in this country, only to come [...]

I’m apparently thrilled by basic clean-up

By Susan Harris|2022-06-24T08:50:58-04:00June 24, 2022|Public Gardens|13 Comments

After This isn't your typical "after" photo, known on HGTV as the "Reveal!" What you see is the most prominent corner of my housing co-op's HQ building where I've been the volunteer landscaper/gardener for about four years.  (Photos here, with [...]

Visitors

By Anne Wareham|2022-06-24T08:11:30-04:00June 22, 2022|Public Gardens, Regular Gardens|20 Comments

We recently visited some friends for an amazing supper. And were touched to be told, when we admired their sitting room, that they had removed their television so that it would look better. It’s the kind of thing I’d actually [...]

Some Like It Hot

By Allen Bush|2022-06-18T23:33:09-04:00June 18, 2022|Rant's Plants|16 Comments

Heat arrived in Kentucky last week. I knew temperatures in the 90s would arrive sometime but hoped climate change would cut us some slack until July. Climate change is cutting very little slack, but we had a lovely spring with [...]

You don’t need “no mow” to help pollinators

By Elizabeth Licata|2022-05-17T12:17:45-04:00May 17, 2022|19 Comments

Now that “No Mow May” is half over, I want to support Susan in her recent critique of the “no mow” movement. I totally agree with her that if you’re going to have a lawn, you may [...]

Lowest-Maintenance Borders are All-Shrub

By Susan Harris|2022-06-10T10:39:41-04:00June 10, 2022|12 Comments

I'd venture to say the vast majority of Americans want their home landscape to be "low-maintenance." Indeed, as low as possible! When I was garden -coaching, at least 95 percent of my clients asked for that. Which [...]

Gardeners make terrariums; plants laugh

By Elizabeth Licata|2022-02-15T12:43:27-05:00February 15, 2022|2 Comments

Then (left) and now The wonderful terrarium I had planted by a local shop last year is still wonderful; it’s just different. The large fishbowl had been the home of 2 previous terrariums, part of [...]

Creating a Grateful Dead-icated Garden

By William Cocke, Guest Ranter|2022-01-31T09:38:22-05:00January 31, 2022|

The garden as soundscape

By Sandra Julian, Guest Ranter|2022-01-27T14:53:53-05:00January 25, 2022|

Don’t go bananas with your houseplants

By Johanna Dominguez, Guest Ranter|2022-01-10T09:41:48-05:00January 11, 2022|

Garden-adjacent pursuits, especially for the slow times

By Jack Kramer, Guest Ranter|2022-01-04T11:29:54-05:00January 4, 2022|