Thriller, Filler, Spiller? Why not just two out of three?
I don't know about YOU and the size of YOUR garden pots, but mine just aren't large enough to comfortably include what we're always told we should - a spikey [...]
Susan Harris
Gardens, Homes and Monuments of Richmond’s Monument Avenue
Nowhere in the country has the existence of statues honoring the Confederacy been more hotly debated than in the former capital itself - Richmond, Virginia, with its iconic statues along [...]
My 15 Years of Ranting about Lawn Replacement and Lawn Care
My (former) back yard in 2006. The Unlawning Begins It didn't take much research through my 15 years of posts here on GardenRant to confirm that my number [...]
Will my Japanese Maple Survive the Cicadas?
And will my fennel survive the caterpillars? Brood X cicada on a banana tree leaf in my front yard. We're seeing torrents of news here in Maryland about [...]
Clematis, you’d better be worth all this fussing over.
I'm all about the vines since I've started training them to give me screening and privacy (see before and after in this video). But I hadn't included clematis in the [...]
On Video – My Spring 2021 Townhouse Garden
Last fall I made this before-and-after video of my "Front Garden Make-Over with Vines and Paint." I submitted it to my town's local access TV station and won second prize [...]
The Pointless, Inaccuracy-Laden Petition to “Restore Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden”
Has this petition to "Restore Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden" come across your feed yet? It makes this pitch: In 1961 President and Mrs. Kennedy had just returned from a state [...]
Azaleas, once scorned, are welcome again in my garden
These chairs I painted last fall just HAPPEN to match the azaleas behind them. Believe me, I didn't even consider the azaleas when I chose the paint color. [...]
Lyme Disease Update for Gardeners
Tick-repelling clothing I lamented over in a post from 2020. Last summer I asked if gardeners were remembering to worry about Lyme Disease while we're all freaking out [...]
In White House Garden News, it’s Dandeliongate!
I'm blaming Twitter. My feed of pundits and reporters pointed me to this clip on Newsmax, a channel I've never dared look at. It shows a host mocking Joe Biden [...]
Katie Couric and Drew Barrymore make money off gardening products. As gardening experts do.
Drew Barrymore Sells Lawn Care Suddenly my social media feeds are showing me videos of Drew Barrymore ecstatically hugging bags of grass seed and telling us to Lawn Differently [...]
Huge Rift at American Hort Society over Sale of River Farm
I reported here last October that the American Horticultural Society had decided to sell its historic River Farm headquarters, and mentioned some blowback from the community. Well! Since then the [...]