The Seven Deadly Sins of Landscaping, Illustrated
Guest Rant by Lori Hawkins Just as Dante identified the seven deadly sins in his Inferno, so we will explore the cardinal sins of the landscaping world. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, [...]
Guest Rant by Lori Hawkins Just as Dante identified the seven deadly sins in his Inferno, so we will explore the cardinal sins of the landscaping world. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, [...]
Guest post by Kimberly Bryant Gardening has myriad benefits, including re-connecting with nature. Photo by Kimberly Bryant. What difference can a garden make? To newly arrived refugees in [...]
Guest Post by Don Boekelheide in Charlotte, North Carolina During a fierce summer thunderstorm last Friday night, I found out that Organic Gardening will no longer be with us next [...]
By Amanda Morris, Ph.D Twisted, dessicated, browned vines droop across their cages, all life and vitality wrecked by powdery mildew, too much water, not enough air, and failed planning. These [...]
Guest Rant by Amy Campion If we gardeners agree on anything, it’s that compost is wonderful stuff. We can never have enough of it. We make it ourselves in heaps [...]
Guest Rant by Amy Campion Like thistles invading a garden, hackneyed phrases have seeded themselves into garden writing and need to be rooted out. They choke out good prose and [...]
Permanent beds and paths in the author's garden. Guest Rant by Megan Cain I get why you till. There’s something in all of us gardeners that leaps with [...]
by Dr. Amanda Morris Splintered fence. Shattered shrubs. Shredded trunks. And pine needles. Everywhere, pine needles. Destruction with the scent of Christmas. As I made my way into the barely [...]
Below, author Ruth Kassinger summarizes a chapter from her new book, A Garden of Marvels, published this week. Lately, with heavy snow here in suburban Maryland, I've had to keep [...]
Guest rant by Debra Lee Baldwin, a rebuttal to Ivette Soler’s rant in which she expressed ennui about succulents and proposed that the plants’ popularity is diminishing. If anyone ought [...]
Guest post by Lena Struwe, who blogs at Botanical Accuracy Celery is a vegetable and plant that is prominent in American cooking, and infuses both cooked and raw dishes with [...]
Guest rant by Lena Struwe, professor in botany and evolutionary biology at Rutgers University An article published Jan 6, 2014 in The New York Times ('Mutant Petunias Sing the Blues') [...]