My Hot and Spicy Adventures with Peppers
Jalapeños, Serranos, Trinidad Scorpion peppers, Chocolate Habañeros, Pequìn, Chiltepin, Negros Chiles De Arbol, and an unknown tree variety are one day's harvest in my Garden Of Spicy Delights [...]
Ivette Soler, Ranter Emeritus
Huntington Desert Garden – my Other Garden
An agave blossom festooned with pom poms thrusts itself into the sky above The Huntington Desert Garden A person’s relationship with a garden can be one of the [...]
Bad Design in Dry Places – Chunky Gravel and Indifferently Chosen Plants
**Trigger Warning*** This is a rant, and the images that follow may be unpleasant to some. They certainly are to ME. A bit of background to set the stage: Los [...]
Thoughts on Outdoor Rooms
a cozy moment in a garden that echoes the living room inside. Is this too much? Holy Sissinghurst, Batman!!! There is a way of making gardens that [...]
I’m the Killer of Thriller-Filler-Spiller Rules for Pots
This pot, with its one plant, is perfect just as it is. No razzmatazz. I hate rules. I mean really, I do. I always have. My brain won’t [...]
Gardening Under The Affluence
Versailles, the fanciest garden of them all. Image courtesy Wikimedia commons I'm getting a little uncomfortable with something, and I'd like the Ranting World to let me [...]
Your killer gardens had better not kill my new bees
my industrious new friends are working hard to make this world a little greener! I have a few thousand new pets. A couple of weeks ago, [...]
My Snarky Gardening Tips
a little bit of snark, a touch of bitchiness, and a big eye-roll I was recently made aware of something that I had no idea about - it [...]
Fashion in plants – what’s in and out
This Los Angeles area succulent nursery was where horticultural fashionistas came to see and be seen. Is the trend over, like a slouchy beanie or teenaged vampires? NEWSFLASH! [...]
Loving ornamental plants gets you called evil and frivolous
This is the dominant native plant community in Southern California. It is beautiful, but it is not a garden. I am ruining the world. Because I like pretty [...]
My Scary House and Garden in Los Angeles
It may be spooky, but it's mine GardenRant welcomes its newest regular contributor - California-based garden designer Ivete Soler. Since we don't know each other very well, I [...]