Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
When winter begins to end with the snowdrops, I start looking forward. And then winter drags on a bit as far as flowers are concerned, so I go on, looking [...]
"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand." Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – 65 AD) It was a perfect night for [...]
Fellow Ranter, Anne Wareham, has this to say about dahlias: “Sigh. I gave up on dahlias when I got fed up of deadheading them. And constantly forgetting which was [...]
As I walked through the garden I heard a thud. It was a particular type of thud, one that has become familiar to me over the last decade of gardening. [...]
There is still time and happiness. As we all know, good flower gardens take time. Hours. Days. Weeks. Seasons. Years. Lives. Add it up: Winter evenings bent over seed [...]
Lucy Allen comes to GardenRant this week from Substack, and from a sweltering and very dry United Kingdom. --MW I know. We are all far too hot. But I am [...]
I've had a rather adventurous decade as a professional gardener. Lots of great experiences of course, but some difficult ones and even one that left me concerned for my life. [...]
After my emotional story last week of being "Banished from the garden I cleared," I have news about the other large garden I've adopted. (Technically, I'm a "caretaker" of this [...]
GardenRant welcomes back garden ecologist Nathan Lambstrom, in Part III of a three-part series discussing invasive species rhetoric, and the negative effects powerful war metaphors have had on the perception and management [...]
This spring I was needing plants. Never, I hear you cry! Well, huh, I did. And I looked online for what I needed and was horrified at the cost of them. And [...]
In a gardening age of wild, new wild, post-wild, or re-wild, the new radicals may very well begin to seek more order. I know I am. 'Tidy' isn't popular in [...]
GardenRant welcomes back garden ecologist Nathan Lambstrom, in Part II of a three-part series discussing invasive species rhetoric, and the negative effects powerful war metaphors have had on the perception and management [...]
