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Guest post by Lena Struwe, who blogs at Botanical Accuracy Celery is a vegetable and plant that is prominent in American cooking, and infuses both cooked and raw dishes with [...]
Guest rant by Lena Struwe, professor in botany and evolutionary biology at Rutgers University An article published Jan 6, 2014 in The New York Times ('Mutant Petunias Sing the Blues') [...]
Guest post by Janet Belding Business is slow. This is the reason some garden centers here in Massachusetts close until April, but there is so much to do here before [...]
Guest Rant by Jane Scorer, who blogs at HoeHoeGrow It was a shock to the senses, when I looked for a ‘Baby Shower’ gift recently, and found that the world [...]
Enjoy a photo-travelogue by our guest Rob Cardillo! This past October, I was lucky enough to attend Japan's fourth annual Gardening World Cup set in Huis Ten Bosch - a [...]
Names venerating 73 botanists are inscribed in the frieze and below the windows of BBG's landmarked Laboratory Admin building, built from 1912 to 1917. Photo by Chris Kreussling (Flatbush [...]
Guest Post by veterinary surgeon and master gardener James Roush/Garden Musings Friends, in his own opinion, ProfessorRoush has done an exceptional job at Garden Musings, avoiding any mention of politics here [...]
Author's intentional edible weed garden. Guest Rant by Melany Vorass Herrera, author of The Front Yard Forager Last month found me driving north through the Salinas Valley, a [...]
Nebraska Prairie Guest Rant by Benjamin Vogt It’s late July and I’ve finally seen my first monarch butterfly, but only after the Liatris ligulistylis started blooming. This is [...]
Guest Rant by Ed Bruske I recently woke up with a badly aching right elbow. In fact, I could barely use my arm. Must be Lyme disease, I concluded. Pain [...]
Guest Rant by Marie Viljoen It started with the pigweed that came up in the rose pot on the edge of my terrace. I didn’t know it was pigweed (and [...]
Knock Out in its natural state Guest Post by veterinary surgeon and master gardener James Roush/Garden Musings I suppose that I should have expected it. Once Knock Out roses became [...]
