Expect some controversy on a blog named Gardenrant. Our posts on hot topics are sometimes unexpected, even politically incorrect!
Hate turning your clock back? You’re not alone. Here’s guest Ranter James Roush’s opinion of it: That's it. Professor Roush has had it! I'm done with the stupid seasonal time [...]
"Secret Life of Roots" exhibit at the U.S. Botanic Garden Still Ranting about Generalizations Over my 14+ years of garden-ranting here, my number one target has been sweeping [...]
Norman Borlaug had long been on my radar for starting a "Green Revolution" in farming that no one today would call green. But in his day the term referred to [...]
I cannot be left with my thoughts these last few days. I emerge from the experience in a ratty mood that doesn’t benefit anyone, least of all myself. Plus I [...]
With all due respect to fellow garden industry bloggers, columnists, authors, speakers, and social media influencers who choose a different path, I chose long ago not to bring politics into [...]
Ever ready to object when I hear the word ‘pretentious’ used to condemn something that might warrant a deeper conversation and a bottle of wine, I have recently found myself [...]
Admittedly, mentioning a trivial controversy in the gardening world today - with everything that's happening!! - seems ridiculous, but that's exactly what I thought when I saw this graphic posted [...]
I'll either leave this or rip it out and replace it because it is really too much. Pick a side, because the middle ground is disappearing. What’s true [...]
Let me introduce a national park you've never heard of - the Greenbelt National Park, 1,200 acres of woods, trails and campsites just 10 miles outside of DC. It's even [...]
White House Lawn In our continuing effort to keep you informed about the White House grounds - not because those 17 acres are important in the grand scheme, but because [...]
A month ago I posted in this space about Daniel Hinkley, about his noted collector’s garden in Indianola, Washington, and his new book about it, Windcliff: A Story of People, [...]
The jury is still out on this. For every instance of helpful fellowship and joyful sharing, I can find equal examples of myth-based misinformation and knee-jerk snap judgements (if not [...]
