Expect some controversy on a blog named Gardenrant. Our posts on hot topics are sometimes unexpected, even politically incorrect!
On this side of Atlantic, we tend to avoid conservatories in August. There’s no need to seek out a conservatory to get even hotter and sweatier. February is a much [...]
Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden built on the remains of an old car park gives hope to gardeners everywhere that matching the plant to one's conditions can spell success. [...]
Is one of my office plants "Dumb cane" or Dieffenbachia? I know what I prefer. Ah, the joy of being an older, ever-more-crotchety gardener. You can actually watch [...]
GardenRant posts this week have gone there - questioning the rarely questioned conventional wisdom these days about native-plant superiority and those bad "exotics." Today I'm adding to the discussion the [...]
Fossil records show ginkgo was once found on the land mass now called North America. Does that make it native? I’m encouraged by Tony Avent’s recent piece [...]
This nonnative isn't for everybody but I still keep it around. As clashes of extreme views continue to dominate the national political discourse, we have been noting how [...]
Left here, these leaves are a nuisance now that will be just as much of a nuisance in the spring. It’s the bad gardening advice that will not [...]
Anyone else bothered by the term "ornamental" to distinguish certain plants from those that are considered useful, usually edibles? For example,Wikipedia uses this petunia to illustrate the term and offers this [...]
I have a beef with the inclusion of Periwinkle (Vinca minor) on my coop's list of banned plants - banned because they're considered invasive (despite NOT being listed on [...]
Daniel Oles, Oles Family Farm (photo: Stephen Gabris) Normally, we try not to repeat recent topics, but I, too, have been thinking about small family farms, which Allen [...]
Some bacteria have developed resistance so let’s ban all antibiotics. Electricity kills and injures people directly by electric shock, and indirectly, by black lung disease. Cars kill people, and are [...]
Merlin and Sirius Black in their catio Backstory: As some readers will remember, I’ve posted before about free-roaming and feral cats and the dangerous lives they lead—dangerous to [...]
