Expect some controversy on a blog named Gardenrant. Our posts on hot topics are sometimes unexpected, even politically incorrect!
Continuing our seasonal leaf theme here on GardenRant, it's time for some anti-leaf-blower ranting! Actually we've done that, so how about some rants against anti-leaf-blowers, coz those ranters know how [...]
Somehow, the National Wildlife Federation's 2014 blog post "Leave the Leaves for Wildlife" has gone viral this year, and not just on the Internet. Its popular chore-relieving advice is being repeated [...]
This is Dave's urban habitat project (detail) Last week, I posted about a beautiful parking lot that is conserving trees and water. It’s the project of my friend [...]
Guest Rant by Claire Jones Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii, has been widely bashed from garden writers, ecologists, and conservationists. Attacked from all sides by master gardeners and other garden professionals, [...]
Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott, co-founder of the game-changing Garden Professors Blog and award-winning author, happened upon a lawn-care article in Consumer Reports and didn't like what she saw - a mash-up of [...]
The banning of pesticides on ornamentals plants started in Canada but is gradually spreading to the south. Liberal Takoma Park, MD recently became the first place in the U.S. to implement [...]
Kudzu is the poster child for invasive plants. The vine that gobbled up more than seven million acres in the south became the unintended consequence of the USDA’s plan to [...]
To most of the media, it's the famous education reformer Michelle Rhee, ex-DC Schools Chancellor, who's controversial, unpopular, even reviled by some, especially teachers' unions. (Interesting read on the subject.) So when [...]
I recommend a fascinating article in Wednesday's Food Section of the Washington Post this week: "Organic standards fight over synthetics shows there's room for a third system," starting with the news [...]
This is a long-simmering rant about the many ways the term "invasive" causes confusion, and more. DO weigh in with alternatives, pushback, and rants of your own. "Invasive" as synonym [...]
Guest Post by veterinary surgeon and master gardener James Roush/Garden Musings Friends, in his own opinion, ProfessorRoush has done an exceptional job at Garden Musings, avoiding any mention of politics here [...]
Nebraska Prairie Guest Rant by Benjamin Vogt It’s late July and I’ve finally seen my first monarch butterfly, but only after the Liatris ligulistylis started blooming. This is [...]
