Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
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 [...]
In recent years I’ve learned to re-define “garden wildlife” to include not only butterflies and bees, but also the host of other pollinating insects. Recently, Christine Cook of Mossaics Ecological [...]
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 [...]
