What I wrote about in 2025 – on GardenRant and beyond!
Yep, I'm doing an end-of-year review of my GardenRant posts and other writings - my first. So why this year? Not because I need distraction from the news, although I [...]
Susan Harris
Willie Nelson & sons suggest we “Turn off the news and build a garden.” What does that mean?
Lukas Nelson performs "Turn off the news and build a garden" with Willie and Micah Nelson. Click this image to watch. Occasionally the Great Algorithm gets me right, [...]
In “Pluribus,” what can we learn from Carol’s Albuquerque garden?
Anyone else press ever pause on shows or movies when a residential landscape is on the screen? Well, I do it even when it interrupts the next plot reveal in [...]
Gardening for wildlife is *way* more complicated than we thought.
Any other gardeners out there like me, wanting to support pollinators and other beneficial wildlife but having a hard time keeping up with the advice about to DO it? Finding [...]
New 3-story addition next door? If only you had an HOA!
This huge and arguably butt-ugly addition going up in Fairfax County, Virginia, a DC suburb, is all over the local media, including this story in the Washington Post (no gift [...]
Gardening (and everything else) on Reddit
Any Redditors out there? Reddit is a free place to discuss anything in the world with people interested in the same topic, gathered in what are called subreddits (currently 138,000+ [...]
Removing English ivy from trees was just a start. We’re beautifying our town center.
Recent photo of entrance to Roosevelt Center, through the Underpass Garden. Invasives and other unwanted plants 99 percent gone Two years ago I wrote “Let’s get the English [...]
Hoping for a painting of my back garden at its fall peak
Colors are provided by 4 oakleaf hydrangeas, 2 Japanese maples, 3 amsonia hubrichtii and 1 redbud. You know how you suddenly realize the colors in your garden are [...]
Meet the Gardening Gays on their farm in rural Virginia
The news got you down? Well, for the hate-filled times we're living in, this gardening story may help. It does for me. It's about gardening/farming entrepreneurs Kevin Graham and Dragan [...]
Update on changes actually made to White House gardens
UPDATE: The map I should have included Comments are making it clear there's confusion, best avoided with a map. This illustration by BBC reflects the first day of demolition [...]
Five Stars for Penick’s Gardens of Texas
Taken from Gardens of Texas© Copyright 2025 by Pam Penick, photographs by Kenny Braun. Published by Timber Press, Portland, OR. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. [...]
I love seeing “insect damage,” but diseased plants are outta here!
Persian Shield with sweet potato vine. Lower left is a 'Goshiki' Osmanthus. Visitors have asked me about the insect holes seen here in pots next to my front [...]