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Gaura spicing up some containers while the dead branches from pruning a Contorted Hazel give this arrangement form, dynamism, and appeal. Guest Rant by Jenna O'Brien I found [...]
Here's a story of a threatened community garden, by Guest Ranter Kathleen Kiley: A notice of an “inside threat” was sent out to the members of the Westport Community Gardens [...]
At Great Dixter in the golden light of a brilliant morning, three little boys traveled along the meadow path. A sweet summer mix of native grasses, yellow rattle, hawks bit [...]
Perhaps you recall as a kid singing the old “Pop Goes the Weasel” ditty. It opens with “All around the mulberry bush...”. Now I have to note that I've yet [...]
Guest post by Susan Dieterlen I should know better, but I’ve planted radishes again. In this my 40th year of growing vegetables, I can count on one hand the number [...]
What can social media do for public gardens and the public itself? Quite a lot when you've got someone putting as much time and effort into it as the Smithsonian [...]
It’s true that there are certain words in the English vocabulary that evoke a very predictable response. In the case of gardeners, it’s the F- word. Don't panic. This is [...]
'Endless Summer' with daylilies Guest Rant by Lorraine Ballato It all started in early January, as it does every year: the steady stream of online advice about how [...]
Galanthus 'S. Arnott' At the time of writing the snowdrop season is well underway. Social media is full of pictures showing carpets of pure white Galanthus nivalis or [...]
I haven’t written for this site for quite a while, but today, nothing but a rant will do. In recent years I’ve become an enthusiastic advocate of incorporating ecology into [...]
Experiencing such a garden is the best way I can coax those new to gardening or the natural gardening movement to swap part or perhaps even all of lawn, beds of ground cover, or stands of invasive honeysuckle for plants that are more beneficial to nature and more attractive.
The call to plant milkweed -- while easily sharable and actionable -- is greatly reductionist and oversimplified. Maybe even harmful in some ways. I don't see it as a baby [...]
