Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
I had promised Susan et al. to report on Cultivate a few short hours after attending this huge trade show in Columbus last week – back in person for the [...]
This is a cheat. It's hardly a rant. It's just a big treat for those of us who do, in spite of everything, still fall for and indulge a love [...]
Don't miss hearing Margaret get tips from our Marianne Willburn about growing tropical plants - on the latest A Way to Garden Podcast. It's a podcast I've recommended more than [...]
You can call it bronze all you like, but basically, we’re talking brownplus or—old-school—puce. I love to experiment with unusual annuals and have long mail-ordered old-fashioned tall nicotiana from companies [...]
I don't know about YOU and the size of YOUR garden pots, but mine just aren't large enough to comfortably include what we're always told we should - a spikey [...]
Rosa 'Dr. Huey.' Guest rant by Mike Nowak. Mike recently interviewed Ranters Susan Harris and Marianne Willburn for his radio show and it’s now available here on YouTube or here [...]
And will my fennel survive the caterpillars? Brood X cicada on a banana tree leaf in my front yard. We're seeing torrents of news here in Maryland about [...]
I’m not exactly mad about saffron, but I do love the seasonal yellows I am seeing throughout the garden. As it happens, a yellow shade, Illuminating, is one of the [...]
I'm all about the vines since I've started training them to give me screening and privacy (see before and after in this video). But I hadn't included clematis in the [...]
Three warrior species are battling for dominance on the hillside outside my kitchen window. It is a cliched phrase in the garden writer’s book of spells, but it is nonetheless [...]
You’ll prize the rarity of bloom. Look forward to seedlings from those that drop dead. You’ll have fewer seizures in a garden with less variegated plants. And you’ll take pride in living long enough to enjoy the slow grower that has finally achieved some size.
These chairs I painted last fall just HAPPEN to match the azaleas behind them. Believe me, I didn't even consider the azaleas when I chose the paint color. [...]
