Our critiques of books, movies, anything we have an opinion about.
Curious why there's a big feature in this recent issue of New Yorker magazine about garden writer Ruth Stout? Maybe it's because her three gardening books ("How to have a [...]
Honestly, I stopped reading gardening books years ago, switching to skimming when I needed to. But the new book Garden to the Max by writer Teresa Woodard and photographer Bob [...]
Meghan with guest Mindy Kaling. Credit: Netflix.com No Meghan-Bashing from Me To get this out of the way - I'm neither a hater nor hard-core fan of Meghan [...]
Pastoral. Primeval. Progressive. Pianos? Gardens of Tomorrow is the theme this week of the 2025 PHS Flower Show, and it’s clear that the future means different things to everyone. (Which [...]
Scribehound There's a new team blog in the gardening world called Scribehound, with 30 British garden writers and a new gardening post every day. (The site will expand to other [...]
Screen shot of PlantPop's home page today. I recently attended the 6th Annual PlantPop Film Festival in Norfolk, Va. and I have a report! So first, I imagine [...]
STILL, The Art of Noticing by Mary Jo Hoffman, Monacelli, 2024 Leafing through the pages of “STILL, The Art of Noticing” by Mary Jo Hoffman, I found myself [...]
Last week I attended the annual conference of the American Society of Landscape Architects, held in Washington, D.C. Back in 2010, the last time the conference was held in DC, [...]
Well, it's actually a hundred and twelve years ago. And, I confess, (surprise) not truly Garden Rant. It was British, and they called themselves The Guild of The Garden Lovers. [...]
Few things in life are more satisfying than getting together with a good friend to geek out over plants. On that, we can all agree. If your eyes light up [...]
This year marked my return to large-scale vegetable gardening after a three-year renovation project of my kitchen garden. However, due to a severe drought and only nine water barrels with [...]
The last time I saw Williamsburg, Va. was waaaay back in 1969, with my parents and my boyfriend Bob, who was visiting from Connecticut. My one souvenir is this obligatory [...]
