Sometimes we Ranters have other things to say – maybe about life – because we don’t JUST garden, ya know.
There’s a process to coming home after a long journey. There’s a process to settling back into one’s routines and ruts and beloved pillows and remembering the systems that facilitate [...]
For decades I have relaxed on garden and park benches around the world. Now I can sit on my own park bench. I received it as a Christmas gift from [...]
I’ve just finished up the huge task of creating a Ranters’ Recommendations page on GardenRant – a page that tells you a little bit about each of our gardens, and [...]
Staff from the Smithsonian's National Zoo harvesting bamboo in Greenbelt, Md. There's acres of the dreaded invasive running bamboo in my neighborhood, like there is in many of [...]
Though I live 4,234 miles away in Central Kentucky, my feelings for Hawaii have been heartfelt since the first time I landed there. The historic town of Lahaina was [...]
I visit an artist at his home studio The bus you see above is one of several eye-popping pieces of vehicular art that I've been gawking at for years, whenever [...]
I love what I do. I love plants, I love gardens, I feel a great pride in my knowledge and abilities. Why then do I feel so numb to it [...]
Pam Harper died last week in her home in Seaford, Virginia at the age of 93 after a short illness; and the horticultural community who knew her and loved her [...]
Sunflowers for "Wildlife Management" A field full of tall, smiley-faced sunflowers is the perfect location for taking photos - of everything from marriage proposals to everyday selfies. And this field [...]
Whether by bug, bolt, or brutal conditions, large trees die from time to time, and our first impulse is to solve the problem by chainsaw. But if the tree is [...]
It's everywhere. Various Chelsea Flower Show gardens this year included the newly fashionable weeds. Interestingly, I saw someone quoted as saying that that was ok because ‘it was [...]
