GardenRant

Guest rant by Marianne Willburn  The office is lightly scented with pencil shavings and old coffee mugs this morning. Not an unpleasant smell, but an...

Rose and I stared out the kitchen window, last month, while fat robins feasted on our deciduous hollies and a glorious evergreen 40-foot American...

I’ve rarely been as deeply affected emotionally as I was this fall when I attended a pair of demonstrations by young people -- teenagers...

A story about foraging on "CBS Sunday Morning" caught my eye. It's called "In Denmark, a Quest for New Spirits." We're told that Lars Williams...

There’s been a deluge of backward-looking articles and posts, so why should Rant be any different? Except that this will be, because I am...

Behold my pick-up truck 2013 Honda CRV! Just don't ask me to give more than one person a ride anywhere on short notice, coz...

A reader sent me the link to this New York Times story about the garden at Riker's Island, the notorious New York prison slated...

If I were being completely honest, and I'm usually not, I would admit that I have an almost maniacally caricatured impulse to over-plant. Collector’s...

Sometimes common knowledge, what everybody knows to be true, just isn’t.  That’s the case, I’ve found, with much of the broadly accepted information about...

I would have shown you these fall photos of my Maryland garden in the actual fall if a technical glitch hadn't kept me from...

What does “gardening like there’s no tomorrow” really mean? Do you think your garden, and earth, can avoid the ongoing sixth mass extinction? The...

The question was staring at me from my Facebook feed, in the form of a hunky guy sitting with a medium-sized parlor palm (I...

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a very interesting symposium, “Rooted in Place,” sponsored by the Berkshire Botanical Garden.  The focus of the...

This is my third and last post about Salt Lake City, which I visited for the garden communicators annual conference in September. I live in...

Déjà vu all over again. In what is apparently becoming an abusive relationship, I again find myself the victim of Marianne Willburn’s poison pen,...