Gertrude and the whale
By guest blogger S. B. Julian Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1933) is credited as one of the founders of England's lush, flower-rich, painterly cottage garden style of horticulture (she was a painter [...]
By guest blogger S. B. Julian Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1933) is credited as one of the founders of England's lush, flower-rich, painterly cottage garden style of horticulture (she was a painter [...]
A guest rant by Kelly Baldry Our towns and cities are made up of thousands of individuals, many of whom will never pay to visit a garden, and perhaps have [...]
Guest post from Heather Olsen It was March 17. We had to leave the park earlier than the four-year-old wanted because the one-year-old needed a diaper change and a nap. [...]
Guest rant from Jack Kramer Our current home of eighteen years is sited on a one-and-a-half acre lot, originally part wooded and part field. I had told the builder to [...]
Guest rant by Jack Kramer Guess you could say I started gardening at about age four when I planted onion sets in my sandbox. That means I now have seventy-eight [...]
A guest post by Linda McGivern Here goes—though I really don’t want to admit it because you’ll hate me: I have a gardener. At my winter home in the Caribbean. [...]
Guest post by Ailsa Francis Nobody likes to stake plants, right? I have always felt that if a plant needed staking it was somehow an indication of my own ineptitude. [...]
Guest Rant by Phil Nauta, author of Building Soils Naturally: Innovative Methods for Organic Gardeners. Originally published in 2012, this 9-year-old guest rant is STILL one of GardenRant's top-traffic posts, [...]
Welcome guest Ranter Loree Bohl. Do you know what I hate? Being told how I’m supposed to do something. Phrases like “that’s just how it’s done…” or “everybody does it [...]
This guest post by Kelly Norris is excerpted from New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden by Kelly D. Norris (Cool Springs Press, 2021). History is [...]
Guest Post by Ginny Stibolt Someone recently asked me if there was a free online version of one of my books Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida. My response [...]
This hellebore is sad here, but that's nothing to what happened as the season progressed. Guest post by Linda McGivern Left elbow screaming in pain (gardener’s “tennis elbow” [...]