GardenRant welcomes “guest ranters” who want to take over our little piece of cyberspace for the day. Whether you’re in the plant industry or just an ordinary gardener with an axe to grind, you’re invited. Find out more here.
by Guest Ranter Lee Reich, PhD I wish I had a catchy name for the kind of farmdening I do. (A farmden is more than a garden, less than a [...]
Guest Rant by Ginny Stibolt, the Transplanted Gardener I don't have cable and don't watch HGTV, except rarely on other people's TVs. So maybe I've missed some of the details, [...]
by Frank Hyman You can’t have read about gardening for the last 5-10 years and missed the stories about how lawns have gone from being a symbol of the American [...]
by Guest Ranter David Schmetterling of Montana Wildlife Gardener It is wonderful that native plants and landscapes featuring native plants are gaining popularity. This departure from conventional landscape design and [...]
by Guest Ranter Ken Druse "Do you know what sphagnum peat moss is? Do you know what it's used for?" I asked several gardeners these questions after a lecture I gave in [...]
Guest Rant by Tom Fischer, an editor at Timber Press who is also an author and a delightful person to hang out with. Tom is the author of a new book [...]
Photo credit: Moorten Botanical Garden Guest post by Maureen Gilmer, author of Palm Springs-Style Gardening, on the subject of cactus abuse. Clark Moorten, my long-time mentor and only [...]
by Guest Ranter Joe Lamp'l So I guess a how-to, home vegetable gardening series isn’t appealing enough to rebroadcast this year…the year that growing your own food is the hottest [...]
by Guest Ranter Joe Lamp’l They say that ignorance is bliss. I say that ignorance is killing our planet. I seem to be a lot more sensitive these days to [...]
Saxon Holt, photographer working in garden with Blind Ambition I sat in the crowd nursing my concerns about the very concept of measuring sustainable agriculture when Jonathan Kaplan [...]
By Allan Armitage I work with the ornamental plant industry. These are the people who produce petunias, astilbes, impatiens and mums. These people live and die by new plants, especially [...]
By Guest Ranter Susan Leigh Tomlinson. In this excerpt from "Pentimento", published in the literary journal Isotope, Susan describes her complicated relationship with the land around Lubbock, Texas, known locally [...]
