Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
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 [...]
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 [...]
