Expect some controversy on a blog named Gardenrant. Our posts on hot topics are sometimes unexpected, even politically incorrect!
I only knew the nonprofit Garden Conservancy for its hundreds of Open Day events throughout the U.S. That's until I got an email inviting me to the "world premiere" of [...]
Garden Rant cultivates readers who have a thirst for gardening and an appreciation for outspokenness. Good writing draws curious readers, but signs on the horizon don’t look promising. Doomscrolling [...]
The year is flying by and it's nearly May already; at long last the optimism of spring has reached even this weary and cynical gardener. May arrives with great flourish, [...]
This topic may be a sensitive one for many readers. As a relatively recently bereaved gardener, I can’t help ruminating on why it has to be so difficult to plant [...]
Many years ago, my young daughter and two friends made three little shelters at the edge of the woods with fallen branches, and in front of each entryway they planted [...]
Trees and forests are always subject to political winds of change, whether they’re blowing from the left or from the right. This time, efforts to improve urban tree cover are [...]
Last time I wrote about local florists and the Slow Flowers movement, I got a comment from a reader, Sheena, who said, “I did smile when you described Canada as [...]
None of these products contain glyphosate. Like all reasonably knowledgeable gardeners, I thought I knew what's in the most commonly used herbicide in history, but not anymore. Take [...]
Examples like this would make Pollinator Partnership's training more translatable to home gardens. UPDATE: I received this email from Pollinator Partnership:My apologies that the Pollinator Steward Certification program [...]
I am a horticulturist who works at a zoo, and this is often terribly humbling. Although the zoo where I work is also a botanical garden, and a damned good [...]
I once ran with a posse of boys who scoured scrawny woods at the end of a suburban street with cowboy hats and hatchets. We were determined to carve [...]
On Tuesday morning – the last of 2024 – I had a phone conversation with Scott Beuerlein, one of my co-editors here at GardenRant, checking in on his mobility after [...]
