Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects:
Susan rants about anything that misinforms or discourages gardeners – from old-school quacks to mistaken do-gooders to local laws that mandate conformity.
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In what her office called "The first lady’s surprise Valentine messages to the country, Valentine's Day candies with messages of love and healing were installed overnight, surprising the President. They [...]
To help celebrate GardenRant's 15th anniversary this year, I've pulled together the story of how it started, how it continued through changes in life circumstances and technical crises, and how [...]
Continuing our reporting on garden-related news about the First Family, something new has turned up about gardens the Bidens may have created or cared. Bidens Added Family Heritage Garden at [...]
Tony Avent's beloved garden and his Plant Delights Nursery in North Carolina have many mentions here on GardenRant, all favorable. We've reported on visits in person, and we were thrilled [...]
Post-election, I wrote "First Lady Jill Biden and the White House Gardens," listing everything my research unearthed about Dr. Biden as a gardener or garden-lover, and speculating on whether she [...]
Take a look at the two 'Goshiki' Osmanthus (a/k/a False Holly) on either side of my front door, where they get just a couple hours of late afternoon sun. They're [...]
When a friend spotted this image in the Secret NYCC Instagram feed, she alerted me immediately because - I mean my God! What IS it? Well, it's a 2.4-acre floating [...]
"Secret Life of Roots" exhibit at the U.S. Botanic Garden Still Ranting about Generalizations Over my 14+ years of garden-ranting here, my number one target has been sweeping [...]
Norman Borlaug had long been on my radar for starting a "Green Revolution" in farming that no one today would call green. But in his day the term referred to [...]
I couldn't resist clicking on "Conde Nest Traveler's 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America" listicle when it came across my Facebook feed and scrolling through the famously beautiful campuses like [...]
These pots in my back garden used to contain bold-colored annuals that grew surprisingly large - particularly the red Iresine here with sweet potato vine. Then the deer found them [...]
Time to update my bird bath post, which declared the bath to be awaiting use by actual birds. I had temporarily moved it away from the house and close to [...]
