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Guest Post by veterinary surgeon and master gardener James Roush/Garden Musings A miracle has occurred on the Kansas prairie. I have, at long last, grown sweet corn in the Flint Hills. Praise [...]
UC Berkeley "Vegetation Management," 2007 Guest Rant by Mary McAllister When I retired, a daily walk in the park became the high point of every day. Soon I [...]
Guest post by veterinary surgeon and master gardener James Roush/Garden Musings This morning, on a trip out of town, I innocently stopped at a large regional nursery about 60 miles east [...]
Ginny and Tammy Guest Post by Ginny Stibolt When we write online, who's actually reading and what are we trying to accomplish? Articles for magazines (and maybe even [...]
Please welcome photographer David Perry who, along with author Debra Prinzing, has been at work on this book about sustainable cut flowers, The 50 Mile Bouquet, for--well. A loooooong time. Honestly, few authors are [...]
Rant readers, please welcome Ken Druse, the author of 17 books about ornamental gardening, including The Natural Shade Garden, Planthropology, and a supremely useful book just released in paperback, Making More Plants: The Science, [...]
Guest Rant by David Schmetterling, Montana Wildlife Gardener That’s right, they suck. Someone had to say it. If you want honey bees (Apis mellifera) for say, I don’t know, honey- [...]
Guest post by Toronto Star garden writer and author Sonia Day. Watch for our review of her new book, The Untamed Garden. Happens every year. Regular as clockwork. The moment [...]
Guest rant from James Roush, a professor of veterinary medicine who blogs at Garden Musings. Was anyone else seduced by the hype of the Drift® roses this year? The slogans [...]
Guest Rant by Emily Lambert Thirteen or maybe 14 years ago, when I was living in New York, I took home an unusual-looking plant. I visited my uncle’s mother, who [...]
Please welcome Katie Elzer-Peters, who, in addition to her love of Civil War battlefields, runs a business writing and marketing company for garden businesses called Garden of Words. She's also [...]
Guest post by Susan Morrison of Blue Planet Garden Blog Inspired by a talk by Kelly Norris, in 2009 I contributed a guest rant that proposed Gen Yers have a [...]
