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My next report from the "History of Landscape" class I'm auditing at the University of Maryland covers something that landscape architects study but is...

  Churchill Downs was packed for two days last Derby weekend. On Friday, instead of slurping sugary mint juleps and jostling for elbowroom with 105,000...

Yes, every year is the same; I go on and on about these understated members of a show-off plant group. The fact is, I...

I’ve been reading book from 2018 that just recently appeared as a paperback, The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone. It’s a best-selling biography of...

Back in 2015 I wrote about my two perfect watering cans and one that I deemed "flawed," according to the caption (above). I declared cans...

Rose and I had an idea for a family homecoming last month. We hosted our kids for a week on the spring train...

It was a Saturday to plant trees, though the conditions weren’t ideal: temps in the low-mid 30s with some wind and a couple very...

As a proselytizer for gardening, I'm always on the look-out for people who teach it well, and new ways they're reaching potential students -...

As spring roars in behind its exuberant parade of dogwood, redbud, magnolia and cherry trees I sit ready to praise a trio of shrubs...

Here at GardenRant we don't use Google ads or aggressively pursue advertisers because we blog for the love of it, not to pay our...

Here in the Mid-Atlantic there's plenty of blooming action among bulbs, but in my own garden I only have eyes for my newest plants,...

  Botanically speaking, I suppose most horticulturists don't do much with tulips in their home gardens. Despite a history rife in treacherous explorations which brought...

It’s not that there isn’t plenty to feel bad about these days. Occurrences like yesterday’s horrific fire at Notre Dame cast such a dark...

I thought I knew how to grow daffodils - because who doesn't? They're critter-proof, perennial, drought-tolerant, and so on. Or so I thought until...

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...