Expect some controversy on a blog named Gardenrant. Our posts on hot topics are sometimes unexpected, even politically incorrect!
I’m trying not to feel needy after reading the latest “leave the leaves” wisdom in a very good article by Margaret Roach (gift link) that ran in the NYTimes last [...]
If you hate leaf blowers, you have some famous company. Many of you may have already seen Thursday's article in The Guardian, “‘Everything that is wrong with the human race’: [...]
We've seen battles like this across the States - gardeners having to fight local ordinances to keep flowers and other nonlawn plants they so love in their front yard, despite [...]
This has been a tough week for a county that increasingly thinks in terms of Red or Blue. It's been a tough week for rising above political divisions and reaching [...]
"Blogs are so over." A friend threw out this casual, but carefully sharpened, zinger a few weeks ago. Whether it was true or just partially true, it amused me to [...]
Did you catch the news about a native-plant gardener on Long Island fined $2,000 because her front yard was too wild-looking? Here's the story in the New York Post, which prompted [...]
You could be forgiven for thinking that gardening is primarily the study of entomology. Industrial agriculture, the expansion of urban areas and infrastructure, and changing climate patterns have caused a [...]
I've reached that time in my life. Police officers look remarkably young these days, and who are these new modern pop stars people keep talking about? In a world of [...]
Last year I visited the wild bee lab near me, with its funky little building, amazing macro photography, and native plants galore. I got to interview the famous Sam Droege, [...]
A carved wooden sculpture was mysteriously placed next to our Louisville mailbox last week. The figure looked like a hybrid between Tecumseh and Jingles. Tecumseh, the legendary Shawnee warrior, orator, [...]
I doubt our neighborhood hillside is in immediate jeopardy of an uprising or a landslide, situated as it is, on top of a massive fortress of Ordovician limestone. Our exiled, [...]
When I wrote about a gardening controversy in my neighborhood for my Buffalo News column, I figured many readers would be surprised that planting flowers could be controversial. But I [...]
