Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
By guest blogger S. B. Julian Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1933) is credited as one of the founders of England's lush, flower-rich, painterly cottage garden style of horticulture (she was a painter [...]
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 [...]
This won't be one of those cutesy, fawning posts that all the shiny, happy cool kids seem to be writing on Facebook and in blogs all over the Western world. And don’t expect any facts either--just observations. My observations, and, yes, I fully admit that I'm nothing more than a very tired and intellectually lazy horticulturist who is living under a dome of cicadas for the fourth time.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about my fellow gardeners, it’s that they lean toward frugality on the micro level. On the macro level, they might be spending half [...]
We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds [...]
Over the last two winters, I’ve been engaged in a curious pursuit which has baffled some visitors but thrilled others – precisely the way I love to garden. I’m building [...]
Guest post from Heather Olsen It was March 17. We had to leave the park earlier than the four-year-old wanted because the one-year-old needed a diaper change and a nap. [...]
A notorious 17-year cicada returns to portions of the eastern United States in a few weeks. If you're in the path of Brood X you may need to stuff cotton [...]
Because it's early spring and ads telling us to "green up" our lawns are starting to proliferate, it's time for some expert lawn-care advice from people who give a damn [...]
Yes, gardening certainly has its moments of pleasure, but it takes time and effort before those pleasures grow from an intermittent trickle to a steady flow. Keep at it. Enjoy the process all along the way. Sooner or later, your garden will reach that critical mass when it surrounds you like a warm embrace.
Pam's kids loved their lawnless front yard. Guest Rant by Pam Penick Originally published in 2013, Pam's rant is more relevant than ever. Lawns are for kids, right? [...]
This guest post by Kelly Norris is excerpted from New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden by Kelly D. Norris (Cool Springs Press, 2021). History is [...]
