Expect some controversy on a blog named Gardenrant. Our posts on hot topics are sometimes unexpected, even politically incorrect!
When I saw this quote/paraphrase from Sir Mixalot's 1992 hit in my local gardening group, I thought, “Finally. Somebody gets me.” My gardening life is punctuated by love/hate relationships with [...]
I reported here last October that the American Horticultural Society had decided to sell its historic River Farm headquarters, and mentioned some blowback from the community. Well! Since then the [...]
A book is commissioned. (not mine) I was recently talking with a friend who has just been commissioned to write a book about a specific genus of plants. [...]
As a follow up to Elizabeth’s post last week remarking on the sorrowful tone of Margaret Renkl’s NYT article on non-native spring color, The AHS kindly allowed GardenRant to run [...]
Who isn’t ready to see spring flowers? I appreciated Susan’s enthusiastic survey of April blooms in Capitol Region public gardens. I’m also eagerly awaiting my own bulb display (shown here [...]
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 [...]
The beauty of Latin, the gorgeousness of it, is that everyone despises it. Equally!
Especially not from utility companies. The image above was taken on a street on the east side of Buffalo, but this scene, or something similar, is common throughout the US, [...]
From the GardenRant Archives Originally published 1/21/09, the day after Obama's first inauguration. Teddy Roosevelt, the winner! Whatever may happen over the next months and years, this has [...]
Do politics belong in the garden or in a garden blog? I suggest that the answer to this question doesn’t matter much; politics are there already and have been for [...]
Tony Avent's beloved garden and his Plant Delights Nursery in North Carolina have many mentions here on GardenRant, all favorable. We've reported on visits in person, and we were thrilled [...]
