“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
Did you all see the Smithsonian's blizzard video? You know, the panda playing in the snow. You probably shared it. But to this gardener, the blizzard story I love wasn't online [...]
Summer in Vander Veer Botanical Park Guest Rant by Linda Larson, A Traveling Gardener This just in: Iowa has beautiful gardens and parks, with grand trees, roses, hostas, [...]
Posting on New Year's Day is my excuse to share photos of some gardens I visited in 2015, shots not previously shown here on GardenRant. First, the fabulous Garden Blogger [...]
Redbud, Cercis canadensis 'Lavender Twist', at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Well, I suppose the good news is I’ve gradually worked my way from the C to the [...]
Big news from Delaware? Yes, and it's not about Joe Biden at all, though top Delaware pols are involved. The news is that the Delaware Botanic Garden (now under development) WILL [...]
Photo courtesy Oehme van Sweden I have two bones to pick about gardens being destroyed or co-opted to honor the dead. Yes, I'm going there. First, a national [...]
The highlight of a great week in garden events for me was the book launch party at Chanticleer Garden, hands down, for the chance to see the garden again (my [...]
Prairie perennials Did you know that this is the International Year of Soils? Me, neither, until I saw an exhibit about the benefits of perennial crops over annual crops, [...]
Janet Draper at the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden. Rare is the circus that has the extraordinary talent or the vast experience of someone like Janet Draper. This dynamo [...]
Here's a blog post I wrote for general-interest blogs, about an easy new way to see the sights around the National Mall . It's illustrated with images of the gardens [...]
I'm happy to see that (some) rose gardens are looking better these days, thanks to their good-looking and super-performing groundcovers. To my eyes, they cover all sorts of rosebush deficiencies [...]
The 446-acre treasure in an unloved part of Washington, D.C. that is the National Arboretum has seemed down on its luck these last few years. It had a short-term director (not [...]
