Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
Garden Rant frowns on How-To stories, but I’m making an exception and a confession. I started gardening as a little boy and was passionate and curious. I stumbled [...]
Tick-repelling clothing I lamented over in a post from 2020. Last summer I asked if gardeners were remembering to worry about Lyme Disease while we're all freaking out [...]
Where would we be if we couldn’t complain incessantly about the weather? Such whining is harmless, as it has zero effect, and it’s fun. I do it all the time. [...]
But, in the end, I think the only message here is how much life wants to live, what a miracle it is, and how amazing it is to observe and to be a part of.
Guest post from Heather Olsen It was March 17. We had to leave the park earlier than the four-year-old wanted because the one-year-old needed a diaper change and a nap. [...]
The Goal is Super-Low-Maintenance Here's a 21 by 11-foot island bed around the entrance sign to my co-op community. It's very prominent and as of yesterday morning, half-full of weeds.And [...]
Spring in Western New York is fleeting, maybe just a little bit more than a state of mind. The actual gardening season from early summer to mid-fall is more substantial, [...]
Guest rant from Jack Kramer Our current home of eighteen years is sited on a one-and-a-half acre lot, originally part wooded and part field. I had told the builder to [...]
It is the middle of March. I stand looking at the back garden, which turns 24 years old this August. The Hellebores are blooming up a storm of color. Fragrant [...]
For over a year I have looked forward to a time when there would no longer be the heavy burden of social distancing. Visits with friends were scarce during the [...]
A guest post by Linda McGivern Here goes—though I really don’t want to admit it because you’ll hate me: I have a gardener. At my winter home in the Caribbean. [...]
It’s the first day of spring and the bees are dead. After a long yesterday assessing the winter garden hangover – the deer-nibbled evergreens, the chicken-uprooted polygonatum, the muddy mess [...]
