Expect some controversy on a blog named Gardenrant. Our posts on hot topics are sometimes unexpected, even politically incorrect!
We’re in danger of losing our WNY online garden group because of one word. Hoe. Sometimes, Facebook seems to understand that this is a garden tool and leaves it be. [...]
The garden is about to peak, Charles says. As I’m very focused on later flowers I’m surprised for a moment. Then he says that the ramblers are out and I [...]
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 [...]
