Expect some controversy on a blog named Gardenrant. Our posts on hot topics are sometimes unexpected, even politically incorrect!
Shutterstock image ... grow the YCGT campaign! Happy endings to stories that involve corporations vs. individuals are all too rare, so we’re very pleased to report that garden [...]
More nutritious because of the holes? Possibly. Rant readers, please welcome Dr. John Reganold of Washington State University, who has done groundbreaking work demonstrating the value of organic [...]
We reported in January that Scotts Miracle-Gro had entered a guilty plea for knowingly selling bird food they'd poisoned with a pesticide (to prolong its shelf life) and was slapped [...]
Trademark image from Shutterstock Does anyone remember when we posted about the "You Can Grow That!" campaign started by garden writer C.L. Fornari? Her perfectly nice, well-intentioned idea was to [...]
Like all of you, I haven't read the Republican platform and won't read the Democratic one, either, but some journalists DO, and one newspaper helpfully listed what they consider the [...]
For those of you who haven’t had a chance to visit the High Line yet, I’m sorry to have to tell you that it’s over. Already. At least according to [...]
UC Berkeley "Vegetation Management," 2007 Guest Rant by Mary McAllister When I retired, a daily walk in the park became the high point of every day. Soon I [...]
From Thomas Rainer's talk about designing with native plants at the Lahr Native Plant Symposium. Thomas's myths about native plants: 1. That native plants are drought-tolerant, requiring less supplemental watering, [...]
Wow, Scotts is in the news again, with this announcement of their $4.5 million fine for selling pesticide-laden bird food, and falsifying their EPA paperwork about it, no less. So, [...]
The yard Scotts wants us to have. No wildlife allowed. Wow, I've never seen so much spontaneous action by gardenbloggers for an important cause as the sh*itstorm that's [...]
Guest post by Toronto Star garden writer and author Sonia Day. Watch for our review of her new book, The Untamed Garden. Happens every year. Regular as clockwork. The moment [...]
I'm sure my vet thinks I'm a terrible cat owner. Whenever I bring Loretta in, they ask me nicely what I'm doing about flea control, and I mutter and shuffle [...]
