Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
For my podcast and radio program this week (they’ll post on Wednesday), I interviewed Uli Lorimer, the Director of Horticulture at the Native Plant Trust. Uli first attracted attention as [...]
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 [...]
During the lunch break Roy answered questions from gardeners, like Carole Galati here. Photo by Kathy Jentz. Way back (it seems) in February, I attended a popular winter [...]
Witch hazel in Central Park in March Nor, to a great extent, is the outdoors. As the menu of possible activities narrows exponentially—for New York this means no [...]
As a compulsive gardener, I’ve been accused of viewing everything through the context of plants. Still, in trying to understand the looming coronavirus pandemic, I’m finding it useful to think [...]
“Fasten your horticultural seatbelts.” That was the gist of what Dr. Bethany Bradley told me when I interviewed her for my podcast last month. Dr. Bradley is an invasion ecologist [...]
Yes, this is a thing. When I posed the question to a few close gardening friends, I got either or both of these responses: “Huh?” and “NO WAY!” However, I [...]
I’ve rarely been as deeply affected emotionally as I was this fall when I attended a pair of demonstrations by young people -- teenagers and pre-teens – calling for climate [...]
What does “gardening like there’s no tomorrow” really mean? Do you think your garden, and earth, can avoid the ongoing sixth mass extinction? The U.N.’s recent “bleak” climate report may [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a very interesting symposium, “Rooted in Place,” sponsored by the Berkshire Botanical Garden. The focus of the symposium was new trends in environmentally-based [...]
Guest Rant by Helen Yoest Fall is back, and winter is near; thank goodness! This might sound odd coming from a rabid gardener and outdoor enthusiasts who would rather spend [...]
Somewhere near the bottom of every writer's artistic license, a clever wordsmith will find the following recommendation: Monty Don "Comically exaggerating the position of one's opponent is encouraged [...]
