“No-Mow Month” – the no-good, terrible lawn-care advice from the Xerces Society
Ranting Locally - a Letter to the Editor I submitted this letter to the editor of my local paper with the title "No-Mow Presents Problems for Lawns" This year [...]
Susan Harris
From Radio Garden to Radio Ukraine
Radio Garden screen shots. I've been blogging about gardening for sooooo long, I jump at the chance to go off-topic if I can get away with it. (Evidenced [...]
Is it Possible to to Take an Interesting Photo of Peak Cherry Blossoms?
I visited DC's Tidal Basin on a glorious Tuesday this week, prompted by the forecast and the news that the blossoms had begun their peak period. The Cherry Blossom Festival [...]
Twitter fun with bedroom-gardening on Parachute catalog
My Twitter-following friend Pam send me the link to the tweet above from a Kyle I'm not familiar with, but I sure love his eye for a story that needs [...]
Is it finally cool to be a gardener?
This week I made a return to my local shopping mall, which has undergone surprisingly few changes after two very hard years. Yay! But boy, this display just inside a [...]
Shocked by News of Andrew Bunting’s Garden
As I labored last month to organize my 118,000+ photos, my love for one particular Eastern garden was renewed - that of Andrew Bunting, currently the VP of public gardens [...]
I Needed these Calming Gardens in Portland
I needed a respite from doom-scrolling the news, and browsing my photos of gardens in Portland, Oregon actually helped! I was in that fair city for the GardenBlogger Fling in 2014 [...]
My Favorite California Garden – Shirley Bovshow’s
Back in 2009 I was in Los Angeles for my nephew's wedding and got to spend a whole day with Shirley Bovshow, who invited me to see her garden, feed [...]
Eye-Popping Landscape at the VA Museum of Fine Arts
Last summer I visited my hometown of Richmond, Virginia especially to see its iconic Monument Avenue without the infamous Confederate statues, and posted what I found here on the Rant. [...]
Stars and Disappointments in my 2021 Gardens
In my own very biased assessment, my home garden and all my adopted gardens were unqualified successes in 2021, so yay! But I can't say the same for each and [...]
Congrats to Ranters on Being Short-listed by Garden Media Guild
We were thrilled recently to find out that not one, but two of our Ranters -Dan Hinkley and Marianne Willburn - were short-listed by the Garden Media Guild Awards [...]
After Christmas, Who Else Decorates the Garden for Winter?
Harry watches through the screen door. I may have mentioned that I'm not into Christmas, but I am saddened in early January to see decorations taken down and [...]