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The I-Must-Have-This-Plant contest, that was begun a week ago, has been a huge success. There was not one clinker among 11 entries. i asked my...

Beginning gardeners in the US are the focus of a variety of persuasive techniques. Last April, I posted about how dubious websites and silly...

I've held off ranting about the examples of sheared shrubs that I see in my town, but no more. Hey, I'm just agreeing with...

  I have a soft spot for forsaken plants. The Allegheny spurge quickly comes to mind. Pachysandra procumbens should, without hesitation, be planted in more...

“Fasten your horticultural seatbelts.”  That was the gist of what Dr. Bethany Bradley told me when I interviewed her for my podcast last month. ...

Time for some international news! From the Kuwaiti Times we learn about a "gardening lesson" hosted by HGTV (so they're everywhere now?) at which 286...

Cue the swelling music, and then … Huge! Magnificent! Spectacular! Astonishing! Extraaaooordinary! Count on hearing those superlatives and more over the course of Monty Don’s three-part American Gardens, which aired...

I was researching a blog post about my local library, digging deep into its online resources, and came upon something I associate with a...

From the editor: Rant readers following the verbal sparring between our own Scott Beuerlein and guest ranter Marianne Willburn may be wondering if the...

Yes, this is a thing. When I posed the question to a few close gardening friends, I got either or both of these responses:...

GardenRant has covered the Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show several times, and I hope readers are ready for more because two Ranters attended this year,...

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...