GardenRant

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...

GardenRant posts this week have gone there - questioning the rarely questioned conventional wisdom these days about native-plant superiority and those bad "exotics." Today...

I’m encouraged by Tony Avent’s recent piece on the native plant debate to address a couple of points, actually open-ended questions, that may inspire...

As clashes of extreme views continue to dominate the national political discourse, we have been noting how even the gardening world has fallen into...

So there we were at the Tucson Botanical Gardens 1,800 miles from our house and still feeling right at home. The good botanical gardens do...

Seeing Elizabeth's snow photos of Buffalo made me want to share nice snow shots from MY part of the world, so here goes. We don't...

I have a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoiled them. I’m talking about my two masculine children, Tom and Fredo. And I...

As threatened promised, I'm blogging the History of Landscape course I'm taking at the University of Maryland, and here's my first post. The (fabulous) teacher I'll...

You’ve just seen beautiful color images of Buffalo gardens in July. Western New York doesn’t quite look like that now. Color is not the...

It had to happen - a book about the Buffalo-Style Gardens that have become the talk of the gardening world, especially among garden writers. And it...

  Mary Oliver is my comfort this gray winter. I have been reading and rereading her poem “Rice”since her death last month. I don't want you...

Many people I know find all kinds of reasons not to feed birds in winter. The most common are: The food attracts rats. Indeed,...

Few things in gardening are as polarizing as opinions about lawns. On the one hand, the position of the mainstream turf and landscaping industry is...

I may have mentioned that I've gone back to college, taking classes at the University of Maryland campus near me, tuition-free. I got my feet...

It’s been more than 30 years...