Guest Rants Archives

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Armitage on pronouncing plant names: Get the syllables in the right order, then fire away

Armitage on pronouncing plant names: Get the syllables in the right order, then fire away

By Allan Armitage|2021-02-26T09:05:12-05:00February 26, 2021|

From the GardenRant archives, this post was originally published in December of 2008. By Allan Armitage I wrote this a number of years ago after I discovered gardeners, even students, [...]

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Presenting to Garden Groups Virtually ~ the good, the bad, and the pandemic possibilities ~

Presenting to Garden Groups Virtually ~ the good, the bad, and the pandemic possibilities ~

By C.L. Fornari|2021-02-19T12:29:05-05:00February 19, 2021|

Guest Post by C.L. Fornari In April of 2020 my speaking business had to suddenly shift from in-person talks to virtual presentations. Zoom became my new best friend. Some groups [...]

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A fearless gardener shares some of her nonrules

A fearless gardener shares some of her nonrules

By GardenRant Guest|2021-02-16T11:53:32-05:00February 16, 2021|

Welcome guest Ranter Loree Bohl. Do you know what I hate? Being told how I’m supposed to do something. Phrases like “that’s just how it’s done…” or “everybody does it [...]

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Want your kids to play outside? Rip out the lawn!

Want your kids to play outside? Rip out the lawn!

By Pam Penick|2021-02-15T18:39:43-05:00February 15, 2021|

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? [...]

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Kelly Norris on New Naturalism and Informed Plant Choices

Kelly Norris on New Naturalism and Informed Plant Choices

By GardenRant Guest|2021-02-10T11:14:22-05:00February 10, 2021|

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 [...]

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Temporal disobedience

Temporal disobedience

By James K. Roush|2021-01-14T15:27:08-05:00January 6, 2021|

Hate turning your clock back? You’re not alone. Here’s guest Ranter James Roush’s opinion of it: That's it. Professor Roush has had it! I'm done with the stupid seasonal time [...]

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Wrapping Up 2020 at the Big Box Store

Wrapping Up 2020 at the Big Box Store

By Bob Hill|2021-01-23T16:27:38-05:00December 17, 2020|

Bob Hill is back and overcome by impulse. Problem No. 1 was I left my reading glasses in the car. Problem No. 2 was I was out foraging box-store garden [...]

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Ginny Stibolt on what goes into writing a gardening book

Ginny Stibolt on what goes into writing a gardening book

By GardenRant Guest|2021-02-10T11:21:45-05:00October 22, 2020|

Guest Post by Ginny Stibolt Someone recently asked me if there was a free online version of one of my books Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida. My response [...]

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How the climate crisis came for my lovely English garden

How the climate crisis came for my lovely English garden

By GardenRant Guest|2021-01-23T16:20:18-05:00October 21, 2020|

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” [...]

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Our Plastic Pot Problem

Our Plastic Pot Problem

By GardenRant Guest|2021-01-23T16:05:46-05:00August 14, 2020|

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 [...]

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Plants and Immigration: The Domoto Legacy

Plants and Immigration: The Domoto Legacy

By GardenRant Guest|2021-02-10T11:22:15-05:00August 12, 2020|

Such was the size of the nursery operation that the San Francisco Call Bulletin in 1913 called the Domoto Brothers Nursery the largest in the state. Photo Credit: https://50objects.org/object/the-domoto-maple-bonsai-part-i/ [...]

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Plant lust has come to this – 4 trips to 1 garden center in one day

Plant lust has come to this – 4 trips to 1 garden center in one day

By Bob Hill|2021-01-23T14:29:55-05:00July 16, 2020|

Bob Hill returns after an epic shopping spree. Enchantment overtakes him. Few of us tillers of the soil plan on visiting the same [...]

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