“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
Ceremony in NC for the 2022 Capitol Christmas Tree - with folk singers, and the Cherokee boy chosen to light the tree. I got a nice email from [...]
I last posted about the amazing plant-based monument replicas at the U.S. Botanic Garden back in 2018, and I think it's time for an update. One of the recent additions [...]
The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference. --Thomas Merton Steve Foltz In [...]
If you know anything about the famous Cincinnati Zoo, it may be thanks to its photo- and video-genic baby hippos, like Fiona and Fritz above. I follow the Zoo on [...]
Lucky me. When I posted to Facebook that I'd be going to Lexington, KY to see the town I was born in, a "friend" I didn't actually know introduced herself [...]
Every year I notice one plant in particular that people seemed to like above all the rest, at least enough to comment on it, and this year it's the common [...]
Knoll Gardens are in Dorset, England. So I know a good many Rant Readers will wonder if it's of any interest to them. I hope I can bring some interest [...]
I've ranted about hedges in suburbia and the many problems they cause, especially single-species hedges and ones in small spaces. Still, I'm more than open to better hedges in better [...]
If like me you follow the American Horticultural Society on Facebook, you've seen lots of posts this week about their National Children and Youth Garden Symposium that's finishing up [...]
After This isn't your typical "after" photo, known on HGTV as the "Reveal!" What you see is the most prominent corner of my housing co-op's HQ building where I've been [...]
A while back I ranted about the inclusion of my alma mater, Ohio's Oberlin College, in its list of Most Beautiful College Campuses. So let's pause and ask what makes [...]
