People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
A young Steve Still works a push hoe on the 80 acre family farm in Carlinville, Illinois. Steve sold his vegetables in town. Garden Rant contributor Bob Hill [...]
The roof now Buffalo is not landscape architecture central. Aside from a large Olmsted park system (that’s been adulterated in spots), I find many WNY public landscapes uninspired. [...]
These days I follow dozens of gardening channels on YouTube, especially those of Extension universities, where there are hundreds of good veg-growing videos are to be found. Except for the [...]
"A driveway so daunting..." Beautiful in the snow. Somewhere back in the late 80s, I decided I knew more than at least half the landscapers out there and [...]
For months I'd been dying to set my eyes on Joe Lamp'ls new website joegardener.com, hoping for a lot. It launched last week and at the risk of gushing, it [...]
Photo courtesy of Joseph Hillenmeyer. While I wait for my first social security check to arrive later this month, I have been thinking about two crucial mentors. Alberta [...]
Last night the American Horticultural Society held its annual awards gala at its headquarters (above, an estate formerly owned by the Geo. Washington family) on the shores of the Potomac in Alexandria, [...]
Laura LeBoutillier was working at her parents' garden center in Eastern Oregon, and husband Aaron was working at the local cable company. Their lives changed when Aaron bought a new [...]
Superman was the most thrilling comic book hero of my boyhood. “Look… Up in the sky…It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman!” I felt better knowing that good would [...]
New England-area garden designer Matthew Cunningham will be speaking in Silver Spring, Maryland for the local chapter of APLD on Saturday February 11 from 10 to noon. His topic: “Stone, [...]
After three years as a regular GardenRanter, Evelyn Hadden has retired from blogging to concentrate on her music. Her last post was in October but in hopes that she’d change [...]
I love hanging out with other garden writers, and have done quite a bit of that this year – at several local and regional events and especially, the Garden Blogger [...]
