Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
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 [...]
Olmsted's South Park, Buffalo All I personally want this year is to stay healthy and get to the other side of 2020 and beyond. Staying away from the [...]
Every year about this time, or maybe later, I brashly state my lack of interest in winter interest, at least as far as my own garden goes. That’s still true. [...]
One of my favorite national parks While it’s common—and understandable—to believe that certain subjects are somehow beyond politics, one of the reasons I’ve stuck with Garden Rant all [...]
This hellebore is sad here, but that's nothing to what happened as the season progressed. Guest post by Linda McGivern Left elbow screaming in pain (gardener’s “tennis elbow” [...]
Linda McGivern's "guilt nursery" by Linda McGivern There I was: at my favorite local garden center eyeing some of the most alluring begonias I had ever seen. It [...]
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 [...]
Black locust I’ve recently been contributing the text for a book about high-end landscapes in the Hamptons, that playground of the wealthy at the eastern tip of New [...]
