Gardening products – hoses, fertilizers, etc – and garden shows everywhere.
The office is lightly scented with pencil shavings and old coffee mugs this morning. Not an unpleasant smell, but an unfamiliar one. I have ignored this room for two weeks [...]
I love my new monstera but not enough to take a selfie with it. The question was staring at me from my Facebook feed, in the form of [...]
Back in 2015 I wrote about my two perfect watering cans and one that I deemed "flawed," according to the caption (above). I declared cans to be perfect thanks to [...]
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 [...]
