Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
Arborvitaes failing to screen my view of the parking lot. When I wrote last September that "I hate my arborvitaes" because several of them DIED during a drought [...]
Azaleas as Mother Nature intended. I've held off ranting about the examples of sheared shrubs that I see in my town, but no more. In my defense, I'm [...]
I love my new monstera but not enough to take a selfie with it. The question was staring at me from my Facebook feed, in the form of [...]
But. Unsurprisingly, that is the opposite of what many gardeners want. After paying scant attention to this trend as talk of it reached me last year, I finally took the [...]
Be realistic, demand the impossible. Che Guevara I am waging war against frustration, and impatience is an obstacle. My struggle may take two or three years before there is a [...]
This black mondo brings attention to subtly variegated plants. Groundcovers are often suggested as solutions for sites where turfgrass won’t grow, or for places that are difficult to [...]
Serviceberry, Boston ivy and hydrangea are at their best in fall here. And there are many, many other great choices. “What’s this beautiful shrub?!” was the question on [...]
The car was invented 135 years ago, and all that time we have needed a place to put them when we run into the grocery or the bank. Trouble is, [...]
Exact name of this begonia coming soon For years I’ve posted about my indoor gardening scene and endured the derision/indifference of my fellow Ranters about my love for [...]
Curcuma at hidden hill below our Watering Can Man The curcuma plants were in black, plastic three-gallon containers near the entrance to a local box store, and not [...]
I'm here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op's [...]
Tree saps are head over heels for red maples... Natalie Jeremijenko's "Tree Logic" at Mass MoCa, North Adams, MA. Hayly Fisher is a barista. She waters humble sidewalk [...]
