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Jerry Baker, the self-styled "America's Master Gardener" and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious [...]
What do Jeremy Irons and Ozzy Osbourne have in common? We know they’re Brits, so the answer shouldn’t be that hard: both own and maintain beautiful countryside gardens in England. [...]
I'm thrilled to report that since 2010, when I complained about there being only two gardening podcasts on my little iPod, there are now many more and their quality is amazing! [...]
Buffalo! Time for a debrief after attending the Garden Writers annual shindig held in Buffalo this year - to the delight of anyone who's been there in the last decade [...]
These days I follow dozens of gardening channels on YouTube, especially those of Extension universities, where there are hundreds of good veg-growing videos are to be found. Except for the [...]
Connie Schmotzer is Principal Investigator for pollinator research. Just in time for National Pollinator Week, my Garden Writers region planned a fabulous outing for members - to see the [...]
I recently attended a "Green Yards and Gardens" talk in my town. The intern giving the talk was more knowledgeable than I expected, but the topics covered were no surprise: [...]
I’ve complained about the dearth of gardening podcasts and one of my favorites seems to have even gone dormant. But when I came across three podcasts about this year’s Garden [...]
Photo credit: Landscape Architecture Magazine. Rant readers know that we love Thomas Rainer’s work and his book Planting in a Post-Wild World (here’s Evelyn’s describing the aha’s she got [...]
This is what's trending in the house right now: Erlicheer tazettas from Old House Gardens At this time of year, the inboxes of garden writers (and editors of [...]
We had heavy rains this Christmas season, with eerily warm temperatures in the 60s and 70s. The Salt River was swollen, while winter jasmines and even a few Asian cherries [...]
Once again, writer Tovah Martin, author of The New Terrarium (reviewed here in 2009), goes where many gardeners fear to tread—within the confines of the average centrally heated American home. [...]
