Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
If you’ve ever thought of edging a flower bed with proper professional stuff, you may have been astonished to find that the makers of garden edging assume you live in [...]
We’ve all got them. Tchotchkes. Knick knacks. Doodads. More kindly put – and through squinted eyes – objets d’art. Unless you’re a minimalist with an inflexible disposition, your rooms and [...]
I have a graveyard of dead flowers and a spreadsheet with sobering evidence to prove my point. Today in celebration of Garden Rant’s 20th anniversary, I am finally attempting [...]
We are surrounded by trees at Veddw Garden and when we first came we thought it was a super idea to grow rambler roses up them. So whenever we could afford a [...]
When I moved to this yard 14 years ago I replaced the back lawn with mixed borders of trees, shrubs and perennials, deeper-than-usual borders like this one (coz, no more [...]
Over time, human beings become blind to the clutter that surrounds us – particularly the clutter that masks an awkward space. It’s the reason that right now, on a corner [...]
Back in our innocent pre-ChatGBT days, we were excited about how emerging technologies could help gardeners. We were on the watch for new phone apps that could help with identification [...]
The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a long-distinguished history of seed selection and preservation. Before Bill Best got serious with heirloom green bean seeds, there were Native Americans who put [...]
A – I had a big bunch of needy, gorgeous annuals and perennials sitting in plastic nursery pots in the back yard waiting further instructions. They were to be [...]
Name tags tend to be a royal pain for the person who has to wear one, but they're useful to everyone else. This could be said of plant tags or [...]
Spring is always hailed as a joy for gardeners and almost every gardener online, apart from our wonderfully honest Marianne, shows us delightful springing plants in the pleasant sunshine and [...]
I wanted an alpine plant trough garden. First, I fell in love with the plants I had seen at the Philadelphia Flower Show, Wave Hill in Riverdale NY and Stonecrop [...]
