GardenRant

As the gardening team at Buffalo’s Darwin Martin House—really a campus with seven structures on it—enters its second year of planting and maintaining the...

Thank you all for your many color suggestions for my front garden, in comments to this post. I love those colors, too! But I had...

  It’s hard to stay on top of runaway name-calling. Most of the tried and true insults now look like tread-bare bald tires, but a...

There remains a certain snobbishness about annuals, partly because some perceive them as “common,” and partly because they’re, well, annual. (Many of us have...

Taking me away from the horrors of my newsfeed this week has been transforming the look of my Greenbelt, Maryland rowhouse from its dull,...

               Bob Hill returns after an epic shopping spree. Enchantment overtakes him.   Few of us tillers of the soil plan...

July 15, 2020 Cincinnati, Ohio Dear Marianne, Thank you so much for your letter dated June 26th. During this chaotic, busy time, it reminded me that I’m...

Marcel Proust did not overestimate the power of the senses to recall the past. As soon as the first wave of fragrance from my...

I read in The Guardian about "More than Weeds," a French group using graffiti to highlight the "names and importance of the diverse but...

  I have spent nearly 20 years at the Big Rock corner of Louisville’s Cherokee Park. I meet here regularly with my Big Rock Tai...

I’ve recently been contributing the text for a book about high-end landscapes in the Hamptons, that playground of the wealthy at the eastern tip...

UPDATE: We have a winner! It's Liz Genovese, with this comment (chosen at random): "Remember the days when having the most correct and most...

Is there any reason to welcome chaos? It is the inevitable balance to stagnant order. In the Grand Garden, chaos is vitally necessary for...

June 26, 2020 Lovettsville, VA Dear Scott, Well, as your letter writing skills are obviously taking second place to your Facebook overshares, I thought I would pick...

I suppose most suburban gardeners have some mammals to deal with in their garden - squirrels, rabbits and deer being the top nuisances in...