Gardening products – hoses, fertilizers, etc – and garden shows everywhere.
Brent and Becky Heath I thought I knew how to grow daffodils - because who doesn't? They're critter-proof, perennial, drought-tolerant, and so on. Or so I thought until [...]
Yesterday my long-time favorite garden center announced it'll close soon. Here's my tribute to the company and its people on a local blog. I'm reposting it here for the Rant's [...]
Last week I got on a skinny little regional jet with four hefty Co-Horts from work, and with a screaming winter storm tailwind we arrived at BWI lickety split. Like [...]
The Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show is happening in Baltimore this week, and garden communicators (formerly "writers") were there in droves! Here we all are at the breakfast event for media. [...]
The next issue of the magazine I edit features heritage businesses in Western New York—the ones that have lasted more than 100 years. Amazingly, two we’re covering are garden centers [...]
As anyone who has ever opened a small, home-grown retail nursery can tell you, the economic reality for such is straight out of the veteran horse gambler’s prayer: Lord, I [...]
It’s that time of year again. Our local botanical gardens has joined the ranks of other such sites across the US to introduce a titan arum (“corpse flower”) event, based on the bloom cycle of the plant.
My connection to Wollam Gardens, the cut-flower farm in the Virginia exurbs of D.C., starts with this ridiculously cute couple - Hillary Gottemoeller and Joe Harris. I got to know [...]
As it turns out butterflies are not free. They can cost anywhere from $3 to $6 each. They will arrive at your doorstep in small white insulated boxes carried by [...]
I grew up near Richmond, VA, about an hour from Brent and Becky's, the beloved flower bulb company in Tidewater, VA. I've even known Brent since I was a preteen [...]
Arborist wood chips, from One Yard Revolution video Arborist wood chips are in the gardening ether these days, with Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott herself (of Garden Professor and myth-busting [...]
Guest post by Constance Casey Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katherine S. White is often recommended as the prima book about gardening. Readers seeking to grow the perfect zinnia [...]
