Garden Transformed by Color – in Paint, Plants and Wall Art
Thank you all for your many color suggestions for my front garden, in comments to this post. I love those colors, too! But I had to choose, and for an [...]
Susan Harris
Quick, Year-Round Color in the Garden – with Paint!
Before and after in less than a week! Taking me away from the horrors of my newsfeed this week has been transforming the look of my Greenbelt, Maryland [...]
Can people really love urban weeds? Birds are a much easier sell.
I read in The Guardian about "More than Weeds," a French group using graffiti to highlight the "names and importance of the diverse but downtrodden flora growing in the cracks [...]
Review and Give-Away: “The Earth in Her Hands” by Jennifer Jewell
UPDATE: We have a winner! It's Liz Genovese, with this comment (chosen at random): "Remember the days when having the most correct and most beautiful place settings was a thing? [...]
Groundhogs in my Garden!
I suppose most suburban gardeners have some mammals to deal with in their garden - squirrels, rabbits and deer being the top nuisances in my area, so far. That is, [...]
How our Garden Tour Went Virtual
The informal Gardening Boosters group that I helped launch in January planned to have all sorts of in -person gardening events here in Old Greenbelt, Maryland. When those ideas became [...]
I Finally Love my Nook Garden. Thanks, Rant Commenters!
Nook garden in 2012 Back in 2012, the year I bought my New Deal rowhouse in Greenbelt, I had no idea what to do with this space between [...]
Kathy Jentz and the GardenDC Podcast
As a long-time podcast listener I just assumed that listenership would be on the rise during the pandemic, but apparently just the opposite - though they're now coming back. I wonder if [...]
At least we have Virtual Chelsea. And some stamps.
It's legendary. It's the largest in the world. And this year the Chelsea Flower Show is virtual, so possibly accessible to all of us! I say possibly because I'm still [...]
Advice on When to Prune Shrubs – Mostly Wrong?
In a recent post I mentioned hiring an expert to teach my coop to prune their (damn) shrubs and linked to the pruning instruction that resulted. The shocker to me and [...]
In Boise, Evelyn Hadden Grows Thickets for Wildlife
Like so many people these days, I've been catching up with old friends by phone - including former Ranter Evelyn Hadden in Boise, Idaho. She's a busy singer-songwriter and DJ [...]
We Hired an Expert to Teach Coop Members to Prune their (damn) Hedges
Marianne made the case against HOA gardening rules, but my community has a different problem, dare I say a much bigger one? A New Deal project, my planned community included [...]