Expect some controversy on a blog named Gardenrant. Our posts on hot topics are sometimes unexpected, even politically incorrect!
Fellow writers know the pain of setting out six to eight hundred carefully chosen words on a topic, story or opinion guaranteed to resonate, only to hear crickets in the [...]
This is an apple but it's also a mystery. It's known on the Swedish island of Gotland as stenkyrke, meaning 'stone church', but its real name is currently lost to [...]
I recently had a most peculiar experience. To do with conversations about gardens, Chatgpt and the famous garden at Rousham. This post is a result and is not really about Rousham, [...]
Am I the only one on the planet who was truly gobsmacked this week when Monty Don admitted to TWO full-time gardeners beetling away behind the scenes at his beautifully [...]
When winter begins to end with the snowdrops, I start looking forward. And then winter drags on a bit as far as flowers are concerned, so I go on, looking [...]
Some time ago Charles wrote this piece for thinkingardens. I think it's worth revisiting. Charles: I can’t imagine how people who write about gardens keep going , when it is [...]
Lucy Allen comes to GardenRant this week from Substack, and from a sweltering and very dry United Kingdom. --MW I know. We are all far too hot. But I am [...]
GardenRant welcomes back garden ecologist Nathan Lambstrom, in Part III of a three-part series discussing invasive species rhetoric, and the negative effects powerful war metaphors have had on the perception and management [...]
The title of this post tells you it won't be a happy one. It might even make you angry. I wrote it just for blog readers - gardeners! Not to [...]
I love a good strong opinion. Something robust, well considered, and even backed up with a few facts and figures just to round it off. For example it is my [...]
GardenRant welcomes back garden ecologist Nathan Lambstrom, in Part II of a three-part series discussing invasive species rhetoric, and the negative effects powerful war metaphors have had on the perception and management [...]
I've recently noticed a gentle increase in the number of well-known and fairly well-known garden designers championing the work of professional gardeners. Podcasts, articles and social media; there's sense that [...]
