Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Time for a follow-up to my recent criticism of the all-turf American front yard, which we can thank Olmsted for popularizing both in parks and in front of homes. When [...]
In my last post about my new back garden I thanked Rant readers for their design tips, all of which I incorporated. Well, most of which - until now. The [...]
When I posted photos of my new back yard and asked for suggestions I sure got 'em - some so thoughtful I just have to share them. (Remember these?) A [...]
Our official status in Western New York is “moderate drought.” I can’t really remember the last soaking rain we got—maybe a couple times in June and a couple more in [...]
In spite of drought, heat, and relentless animal assaults, there will be no quarter asked or given this weekend, when thousands of walkers fan out among the gardens of Buffalo. [...]
In February I posted a picture of my modest collection of raised beds and asked for ideas about how to keep the chickens out of them. Jessi Blum, author of [...]
From the street, a hint of what's to come. You know what I like even more than the grandest of professionally designed gardens? Personal gardens, the funkier and [...]
Way back in '06 I wrote about Rich People's Gardens and defended "checkbook gardeners" who pay other people to make their landscapes look gorgeous. Better to spend their megabucks on [...]
I have a really brilliant and beautiful friend in Saratoga Springs, an English professor at Skidmore College, who said the greatest thing about second homes after her own attempt to [...]
In the last year or so, we're hearing that there are better uses for our land than turfgrass, that unless it's needed for sport or play, you can save on [...]
Left: the house I just sold. Right: the house I just moved into. The latest in the continuing saga of my move to a smaller house and garden is [...]
Of all the mistakes I've made in my garden over its 26 years under my direction, there are two that I won't be repeating in my next garden. (Here's my [...]
