Expect some controversy on a blog named Gardenrant. Our posts on hot topics are sometimes unexpected, even politically incorrect!
I am not a purist and I don't expect many other people will be either. I think taking the hard line and insisting on all natives will go a long [...]
The importance of eliminating invasive plants, which has long been considered settled dogma, is unsettling itself before our very eyes. Harvard's Peter del Tredici is making waves among scientists and [...]
Amy's "Dear eHow: Please Go Away" last week got a bit of attention, including comments from some writers for About.com. They took exception to it being lumped in with eHow [...]
I hate to be shockable at 50--it's unseemly--but I was doing some research yesterday and was shocked to learn that Colorado State University has an entire degree program devoted to [...]
Guest Rant by Steve Bates author of “The Seeds of Spring; Lessons from the Garden There is a largely unspoken, unwritten, undeniable truth among gardeners. Let’s bring it out in [...]
Guest rant from Transatlantic Plantsman Graham Rice. And I thought Americans preferred their government, from federal to local, to leave them alone, let them to get on with [...]
All the talk about meadows we're hearing these days is great, but let's get real - practically no one wants a meadow out their front door. Or out their back [...]
by Peter Del Tredici I thought I’d seen the last of the term “politically incorrect,” which has become almost as combustible as “liberal.” But just as there was a backlash [...]
by Frank Hyman You can’t have read about gardening for the last 5-10 years and missed the stories about how lawns have gone from being a symbol of the American [...]
That plant is aggressive. It gets really big. It elbows out neighboring plants. It spreads all over and covers a lot of ground in a hurry. My country yard. So [...]
By Allan Armitage I work with the ornamental plant industry. These are the people who produce petunias, astilbes, impatiens and mums. These people live and die by new plants, especially [...]
It seems that I've joined the band of eco-activists in my town in asking our City Council to look into the banning of all gas-powered leaf-blowers, as evidenced by my [...]
