GardenRant

Yesterday my long-time favorite garden center announced it'll close soon. Here's my tribute to the company and its people on a local blog. I'm...

  I’ve got a favorite spring-flowering plant, and I bet you have one, too. But I can’t fully warm up to spring, or any flowering...

This week we celebrate the milestone birthday of longtime Ranter and Rant cofounder Susan Harris. Susan is the only original founder left of the...

This runs long, but please bear with me: this topic deserves the space If you have ever donated money to a cause or even just...

As I write this at the end of March, millions of faces are peering out their windows at freshly filled hummingbird feeders. Friends south...

As I haphazardly follow gardening practice on social media, mainly Facebook, but often on Instagram, I notice huge variances in the quality and content...

Geographically speaking, my always stunning crop of Virginia Bluebells got to Indiana from a plant nursery in West Virginia. But as is often the...

Gardening season has begun here in Maryland and it took no time at all for me to hurt my lower back doing what for...

Maybe I'm a control freak. Maybe I'm just not very smart. Quite possibly, I'm just too far down the tracks to back up and...

Garden installations crammed into windowless domes and convention centers in the middle of winter always feel so desperate to me. Maybe it’s the lighting,...

I stopped by my favorite independent garden center yesterday to see what's in stock and honestly, just to be among beautiful plants - green...

Feathers might not have been ruffled if actress Lillian Russell, and other early 20thcentury fashonistas, had not sashayed around in hats with colorful plumes,...

Ah, the joy of being an older, ever-more-crotchety gardener. You can actually watch the birth and death of trends you never went along with....

We're hearing and reading everywhere that house plants are having their day, and I'm all in - as long as they're growing in someone...

I’m starting this post with a picture I’ve previously published in this blog.  At the risk of seeming repetitive, I want to explain why...