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By C.L. Fornari Sparky, a Sato, wonders why he's being asked to sit next to a Hydrangea, tentatively identified as a H. macrophylla 'Sandy Summer' I went to [...]
Guest rant by Jack Kramer Guess you could say I started gardening at about age four when I planted onion sets in my sandbox. That means I now have seventy-eight [...]
Guest rant by Mike Nowak. Mike recently interviewed Ranters Susan Harris and Marianne Willburn for his radio show and it's now available here on YouTube. If you have a cat—not [...]
It is the middle of March. I stand looking at the back garden, which turns 24 years old this August. The Hellebores are blooming up a storm of color. Fragrant [...]
A guest post by Linda McGivern Here goes—though I really don’t want to admit it because you’ll hate me: I have a gardener. At my winter home in the Caribbean. [...]
Back in 2007, GardenRant hosted a Compost Tea Debate between the two knowledgeable Jeffs: Jeff Gillman's Possible Benefits and Likely Problems with Compost Tea Jeff Lowenfels' On Compost Tea: AACA [...]
Guest post by Ailsa Francis Nobody likes to stake plants, right? I have always felt that if a plant needed staking it was somehow an indication of my own ineptitude. [...]
Guest Rant by Phil Nauta, author of Building Soils Naturally: Innovative Methods for Organic Gardeners. Originally published in 2012, this 9-year-old guest rant is STILL one of GardenRant's top-traffic posts, [...]
Ed Bruske in 2006 as a DC Master Gardener. Guest Update by Ed Bruske Readers, I once worked with Ed Bruske and others to organize Washington, D.C.'s first-ever [...]
Guest Rant by Billy Goodnick From the GardenRant archives, a golden oldie originally published in 2012. It was a dark and foggy summer night. Biff the Wonder Spaniel and I [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
