“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
As a longtime preservation activist, I have special empathy for those who advocate for landscape preservation. It’s hard enough to keep historic buildings going, but landscapes are a special challenge. [...]
Including the traditional art of supporting weeping cherry trees As weeping cherry tree, planted in the 1950s, with new supports. Who knew that the building of supports to [...]
The opening graph contained these words: “This may be the strangest garden in America, at once the darkest and most joyous, unlike any other place I’ve been.” Now there’s an [...]
About halfway through a fascinating article about a botanic garden on the Isle of Wight I’d never heard of - I’ve never heard of any gardens on the Isle of [...]
UPDATE: Big spread in the Washington Post about this tree's role in the campaign to save the Red Spruce. (Paywall troubles? Try accessing it through your public library's website.) [...]
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 [...]
