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Horticultural Heartthrobs, an Homage to our Favorite Labor of Love
Photo: Lorene Edwards Forkner I realize Valentine’s Day was last week. So let's consider this post an homage to gardens, our favorite labor of love. photo: Yoksel via unsplash Bleeding heart We’ll start with the low-hanging [...]
Chairs invite us humans into the garden
Adirondack and Adirondack-inspired chairs at Chanticleer Garden. Ode to the Adirondack Chair Today's collection of photos that I've tagged for various garden elements all showcase chairs, with lots of my all-time favorite - the Adirondack. Wiki describes it [...]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Plant Edition, February.
OK, let’s start with the bad and the ugly, to cheer you all up. Nothing like someone else’s rotten luck to do that. Look at this: Isn’t that great? Those berries! What a feast for the eyes and the [...]
The New Horticulture Movement
Hello, my name is Ben and I'm a geriatric millennial. I'm old enough to remember being taken, two pupils at a time, to the school office so that we could look at the school's first ever computer. I'm now writing [...]
“One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustier corners.”
– Washington Post gardening editor Adrian Higgins
In Defense of The Gardener’s Voice
This post is long. It is a culmination of growing concerns that voices gentler and more knowledgeable than mine have articulated for some time; but that nevertheless continue to be ignored or reframed. The issue is complex, [...]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Plant Edition, February.
OK, let’s start with the bad and the ugly, to cheer you all up. Nothing like someone else’s rotten luck to do that. Look at this: Isn’t that great? Those berries! What a feast for the [...]
From my Photo Archives: House Colors that MAKE the Garden
Some colorful homes that caught my eye. Clockwise from upper left: Oakland, CA; Long Island, NY; Austin, TX; and two in Takoma Park, MD. After all these years of garden-writing with no ability to tag [...]
GardenRant Voices
GardenRant is the home of independent garden-writing since 2006. It is the work of these highly opinionated gardeners:
GUEST RANTS
GardenRant welcomes “guest ranters” who want to take over our little piece of cyberspace for the day. Whether you’re in the plant industry or just an ordinary gardener with an axe to grind, you’re invited. Find out more here.
