Gardening products – hoses, fertilizers, etc – and garden shows everywhere.
On a recent drive through California, I stopped at the locally famous Sierra Azul Nursery, where I wandered through their 2-acre demonstration garden and met some Australians. “Nothing [...]
Dear readers, I went through my in-box and discovered some delicious hate-reading! Ready? First, from somehow actually hired by Scotts Miracle-Gro to promote them, pasted below with commentary in brackets. [...]
To most of the media, it's the famous education reformer Michelle Rhee, ex-DC Schools Chancellor, who's controversial, unpopular, even reviled by some, especially teachers' unions. (Interesting read on the subject.) So when [...]
Garden suppliers’ sights are set on next spring. Last month, representatives from nurseries, greenhouses, independent garden centers and even Big Box Stores loaded up their cars, vans and trucks, heading [...]
Versailles, the fanciest garden of them all. Image courtesy Wikimedia commons I'm getting a little uncomfortable with something, and I'd like the Ranting World to let me [...]
Competition co-chairs Alice Bucher and Don Slater at the big show. With the theme of Articulture - the interpretation of art through horticulture - this year's Philadelphia Flower [...]
Photo via Shutterstock News from the garden-product company we love to hate - Scotts-MiracleGro, of course. As reported here (via a Rant tipster) CEO Jim Hagedorn announced at the company's [...]
Guest post by Janet Belding Business is slow. This is the reason some garden centers here in Massachusetts close until April, but there is so much to do here before [...]
Gnome image courtesy of Shutterstock (Only kidding on this one. I heart gnomes.) Inspired by the wonderful Haters Guide to The Williams Sonoma Catalog, which you have no [...]
The first alarm about bee-killing pesticides that caught my eye warned of plants that had been sprayed with neonicotinoids doing the killing. Then petitions like this one got my attention [...]
Guest Rant by Jane Scorer, who blogs at HoeHoeGrow It was a shock to the senses, when I looked for a ‘Baby Shower’ gift recently, and found that the world [...]
I never saw it coming. Flora Grubb, the pioneering urban gardener and style maven, convinced me—to my great relief—that the Millennial Generation is beginning to shop for plants. Meanwhile DJ [...]
