Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
It’s a bit sad when the lilies drop their final petals, the hosta leaves start to brown, and it’s time to deadhead the last double rudbeckia. One of the ways [...]
“You mean you grow all these plants without a greenhouse?!?” came the shocked question during a tour of my garden last weekend. “Yes,” was the answer. A resounding yes. [...]
Abra Lee is unearthing the American history of Black ornamental gardening—one story at a time. The White Lion landed near Hampton, Virginia, in 1619. On board were an estimated 20 [...]
When the detailed annals of twenty-first century gardening history are collected and indelibly recorded in cyberspace, today will be noted as the day that ProfessorRoush grudgingly conceded his unwilling submission [...]
The gardening bug is something I inherited from both my parents. And, as I discovered, interesting things can happen when your own kids grow up and become gardeners in their [...]
With plant seeds now being around for roughly 365 million years – beginning about the time life first crawled out of the ocean to give dry land a try—my steady [...]
Our fluffed-up Louisville Garden was scheduled to be on the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days tour this Saturday. The Kentucky portion, with five gardens, got cancelled a week ago by mutual [...]
Someone defined a weed as any plant that's growing in the wrong spot. I think most would agree it's also any plant that is generally hated. Yet there are some [...]
New Gardens? Not many people in Britain get to make a new garden, as the place is ram jam full of old gardens. This is not reflected in those surprisingly [...]
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 [...]
