Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
A column I recently wrote about foraging seemed filled with garden-related corollaries. In order to write it, I contacted a couple of longtime foragers and followed them through the mud, [...]
When I wrote that I was confused by conflicting info online about stem-besting bees and how gardeners can help them, Amy Campion left an instructive comment and offered to guest-post [...]
So maybe our first goal in urban horticulture should be to use plants to benefit people and, extapolated from that, if a project is also environmentally and economically successful, then there is the bit we expected from horticulture in the first place.
Amsonia hubrichtii, center right, in the fall, not long before they started falling over. When I recently wrote about which leaves it's best NOT to leave on top [...]
Radio Garden is planting seeds this spring while you are imagining your best garden ever. Take your pick of more than 8,000 diverse radio stations around the world. Radio Garden [...]
Eclipse image by Luc Viatour (wikipedia commons) Nature is the clear winner in my informal tally of where people want to watch the April 8 solar eclipse. Yes, [...]
The bubbling fountain came last, the watery finish to a wonderfully sunny day spent playing in the dirt. Sure, spring had officially arrived a few days earlier, but to me [...]
In a recent post I revealed the uptick in "pollinator action" in my townhouse front garden, thanks to suggestions that GardenRant readers made (to this post) for more critter-friendly annuals [...]
Does YOUR town have English ivy covering trees in its most prominent public spots? Well, MINE SURE DOES, which I finally got sick of looking at and decided to do [...]
Spring, you say? Tell that to my snow-covered patio furniture and the frozen mound of earth covering last week's front garden excavations. Tell that to my friend Kathy, who just [...]
In late November last year I took myself to Japan to visit some gardens. My itinerary was created from three sources: the rather ridiculously titled 1001 Gardens you must [...]
You want to grab a seat early when Carol Reese comes to town for a talk. She can a throw an entertaining stemwinder soaked with humor. The woman’s got [...]
