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Another Blog on MANTS (It Takes Two)
Last week I got on a skinny little regional jet with four hefty Co-Horts from work, and with a screaming winter storm...
Best Gardening Event of Winter? MANTS!
Yesterday I made my yearly pilgrimage to Baltimore to attend MANTS. the largest nursery trade show in the East - by far. This year...
PPA Brings out the Bawlmer Spirit in MANTS-Goers
The annual orgy of plant worship and fun times - the Perennial Plant Association symposium - is happening in Baltimore this year and the Flock is Gathering - in...
Steven Earl Clemants
Xris/Flatbush Gardener told us of the rather shocking death of Brooklyn-based botanist Steven Earl Clemants (at 54) a few days ago. Clemants worked...
Random Horticultural Things I’m Either Loving or Loathing, and a Few I Haven’t Quite...
For whatever they are worth, here are some stray observations that have rattled around in my noggin lately when I’ve had too much time...
Winter Sun & Guilty Joy: A Letter to The Midwest
From the editor: Rant readers following the verbal sparring between our own Scott Beuerlein and guest ranter Marianne Willburn may be wondering if the...
Trade Shows Turns 50. Garden Writers Party.
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,...
Scenes from a Nursery Trade Show
The Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show is happening in Baltimore this week, and garden communicators (formerly "writers") were...
It’s Over: Ending 19 Wonderful Years in the Nursery Business
As anyone who has ever opened a small, home-grown retail nursery can tell you, the economic reality for such is straight out of the...
The One and Only Poison Ivy Horticulturist
Superman was the most thrilling comic book hero of my boyhood. “Look… Up in the sky…It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman!” I...
Plants for crazy sports fans? Sure, why not?
Mums potted up in Ravens and Redskins containers for that special football-plant lover in your life? Okay, not necessarily those teams - these were...
Why I’ve Rejoined Garden Writers
From left, Ashley Sullivan (GWA deputy exec. director), Louise Clarke (Regional VP of GWA), Maria Ungaro (GWA executive director).
I've been a fair-weather friend to...
Janet Draper: A Perennial Force
Rare is the circus that has the extraordinary talent or the vast experience of someone like Janet Draper.
This dynamo of the green world is...
Sightings at a Trade Show
Every January I attend the Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show (MANTS) in Baltimore and even if nothing were new there of interest to me or...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Shuts Down Science Department
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, at the direction of President Scot Medbury, Vice Presidents of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) notified four staff that...
Discoveries at a Nursery Trade Show
Every January I spend a day at the Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show (MANTS) in downtown Baltimore, lured by the people I'll run into as...
High Hopes for St. Lynn’s Press
I trudged miles of aisles at a trade show in Baltimore the other day, amazed at how many tree-growers there ARE, but the most...
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