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Today's Guest Rant by famed garden photographer Saxon Holt gives a tantalizing hint of what's offered in his new e-book Good Garden Photography... and we're giving away TWO COPIES of [...]
Guest Rant by Claire Jones Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii, has been widely bashed from garden writers, ecologists, and conservationists. Attacked from all sides by master gardeners and other garden professionals, [...]
Guest Post by veterinary surgeon and master gardener James Roush/Garden Musings Some years back, I ran across some compostable water bottles at a Starbucks in Seattle and, because of the [...]
Guest Post by David McMullin The first thing I did after I bought the farm was quit mowing the grass. The property is ten acres with a nice rolling aspect, [...]
Guest Rant by Lori Hawkins Just as Dante identified the seven deadly sins in his Inferno, so we will explore the cardinal sins of the landscaping world. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, [...]
Guest post by Kimberly Bryant Gardening has myriad benefits, including re-connecting with nature. Photo by Kimberly Bryant. What difference can a garden make? To newly arrived refugees in [...]
Guest Post by veterinary surgeon and master gardener James Roush/Garden Musings I'm not the owner of this house, nor am I the designer of the pictured front yard, but I [...]
Guest Post by Don Boekelheide in Charlotte, North Carolina During a fierce summer thunderstorm last Friday night, I found out that Organic Gardening will no longer be with us next [...]
By Amanda Morris, Ph.D Twisted, dessicated, browned vines droop across their cages, all life and vitality wrecked by powdery mildew, too much water, not enough air, and failed planning. These [...]
Guest Rant by Amy Campion If we gardeners agree on anything, it’s that compost is wonderful stuff. We can never have enough of it. We make it ourselves in heaps [...]
Guest Post by veterinary surgeon and master gardener James Roush/Garden Musings ProfessorRoush would like to call down a pox on all garden authorities who have advocated various winter hardy boxwoods to be excellent [...]
Guest Rant by Amy Campion Like thistles invading a garden, hackneyed phrases have seeded themselves into garden writing and need to be rooted out. They choke out good prose and [...]
