Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
Sparked by Elizabeth’s zinnia post this week on the merits of plants she once considered to be the “low rent versions of dahlia,” I spent some time this morning considering [...]
For years, I ignored these very popular annuals, thinking of them as low-rent versions of dahlias. I chased after dahlias instead, starting them inside in April, planting them out, staking [...]
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 [...]
