Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's famous Meadow when I visited in July, past its spring flowering. In this third and last post from my recent trip to California, [...]
GardenRant welcomes back garden ecologist Nathan Lambstrom, in Part II of a three-part series discussing invasive species rhetoric, and the negative effects powerful war metaphors have had on the perception and management [...]
My photos from (L) somewhere near Toronto and (R), in beautiful West Seattle, GardenRanter Lorene Edwards Forkner's very own garden. If you're a member of Wild Ones, you [...]
Update on cues to care: I wrote this article for the members of my townhouse co-op as we face our next spring yard inspection. Here cues to care are prioritized, [...]
A longer version of this article was originally published in Conservation Sense and Nonsense in March of this year and brought to our attention by CSN editor, Mary McAllister. I [...]
Did you know that forsythias kill bees? No? I didn't know either. It could be because this fact is actually completely false. It's another one of those 'internet facts' that's [...]
There were two grade school subjects in the late 1950s and early 1960s that I remember fondly—clouds and Lapland. There seems to be little association between the two, and [...]
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 [...]
So many newbies to gardening are motivated by what they've heard about native plants, so naturally they look to the native-plant advocacy groups for the information they need to garden [...]
You could be forgiven for thinking that gardening is primarily the study of entomology. Industrial agriculture, the expansion of urban areas and infrastructure, and changing climate patterns have caused a [...]
Look who I found giving talks and webinars for the Wild Ones national website - Larry Weaner - horticulturist, top designer of meadows in the Eastern U.S. That's where I [...]
In the three weeks since I launched my latest project - a Lawnless Front Yards photo collection on Flickr - the response has been amazing, and so fun! Certainly compared [...]
