Are show gardens making us bad gardeners?
Here are some sensible plantings at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens, a lovely site we happened upon on the way to Connecticut. It's the less famous sites that tend to [...]
Here are some sensible plantings at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens, a lovely site we happened upon on the way to Connecticut. It's the less famous sites that tend to [...]
Bluebell wood image courtesy of Shutterstock They knew where to go for the first of everything: the first snowdrops, the first catkin, primroses, violets, forget-me-nots, wild roses, honeysuckle. [...]
I'm sure grateful for the chance to enjoy the gardens of Toronto with 70 other garden bloggers last June. As I just heard on an NPR report yesterday, [...]
This is Dave's urban habitat project (detail) Last week, I posted about a beautiful parking lot that is conserving trees and water. It’s the project of my friend [...]
“Where are you going?” “I’m driving to Hamburg to look at a parking lot.” “Is it OK if I don’t go with you?” This marital exchange took place on a [...]
Once again, writer Tovah Martin, author of The New Terrarium (reviewed here in 2009), goes where many gardeners fear to tread—within the confines of the average centrally heated American home. [...]
Garden Walk Buffalo" and “© D. Zinteck, Photographics 2 As Garden Walk Buffalo approaches, I have already been participating in the Open Garden program, helping promote the other [...]
It’s not just what’s happening “out west.” Water management of every kind is a huge issue for everybody, so I have been listening and reading with great interest to all [...]
Bedhead is always in style in the Licata garden Trend reports are kind of trivial in the grand scheme of things—we can all agree on that. But they [...]
With Michael Dirr at last week's Plant WNY event The true celebrities of the world of horticulture don’t appear on HGTV or gladhand at home and garden shows. [...]
Weather—we gardeners live and die by it. It may be a universal favorite as a water cooler topic, but when the chat is over, most can pretty much forget about [...]
As many Rant readers must know by this time, in Buffalo we have a yearly free garden tour called Garden Walk. Started in 1995 by two urban gardeners who wanted [...]