People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
Peter Morrin, former Director of Louisville’s Speed Art Museum, emailed me a few weeks ago to say there was a remarkable piece of glasswork on display at the Speed called [...]
While there’s no replicating some elements of an in-person garden show—like the sight and scent of flowers—a powerful and ambitious alternative was presented last weekend: The Great Grow Along (GGA). [...]
We don’t like promoting things here at Rant. We get lobbied by gardening-related PR and marketing all the time, and we mainly ignore it. Once in a while, though, something [...]
From the GardenRant Archives This post from 2011 seems to foreshadow Anne Wareham joining GardenRant this year. In it, Amy described Anne "one of us. She is opinionated, ill-tempered, witty, [...]
Have you seen the feel-good documentary The Biggest Little Farm? You should. It’s the story of a husband and wife who change careers to pursue a dream of living and [...]
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave [...]
Post-election, I wrote "First Lady Jill Biden and the White House Gardens," listing everything my research unearthed about Dr. Biden as a gardener or garden-lover, and speculating on whether she [...]
Joanne and Clyde on a slow-moving freight train in 2013. Proto-punk rocker Iggy Pop and gardening aren’t usually conjoined, but Pop’s song The Passenger could be a [...]
Johanna Dominguez of Put a Plant on It, planted this terrarium for me, my second. Happy new year! I’m celebrating by embracing a new terrarium. I’m somewhat confident [...]
Johanna Dominguez behind the counter at Put a Plant On it (summer photo) While it’s widely acknowledged that gardening exploded during 2020—as much a result of the safety [...]
Otis Knox in his 2018 sunflower field. I would not have batted an eye at Mr. Stripey if Otis Knox had not insisted it was the best [...]
As the gardening team at Buffalo’s Darwin Martin House—really a campus with seven structures on it—enters its second year of planting and maintaining the original landscape Frank Lloyd Wright planned [...]
