Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
Biodiverse Lawn Guest Post by Tom Christopher (before he became a regular) Like other members of the Lawn Reform Coalition, I believe that the contemporary model of lawn [...]
Guest Rant by Will Raap Honey bees and wild pollinators need your help and need it now. Gardeners know that good pollination makes for better crops of tomatoes, cucumbers, apples [...]
Guest Rant by Evelyn Hadden (Before she became a regular!) Let's face it, the outdoors is getting noisier, and not in a good way. It used to be that a [...]
Guest Rants in Verse by Jennifer Martenson For Whom the Leaf Blower Blows Consumer grade cost cutters available in mildly indifferent and turbo screw all y’all models* shift the burden [...]
Time for a follow-up to my recent criticism of the all-turf American front yard, which we can thank Olmsted for popularizing both in parks and in front of homes. When [...]
On a visit to the nearby Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge, I stopped to read the signage about America's "Conservation Leaders" and was surprised to see Frederick Law Olmsted right there, [...]
I'm seeing lots of leaf bags in my neighborhood, like this collection from just one neighbor's yard. Though I was happy to see they're made of paper (which is required [...]
Peat bog in Scotland (Shutterstock) “If you love your garden, you really can’t just abstain.” That’s what the delightfully named Brit celeb gardener Bob Flowerdew says about a [...]
East Pond, at Gateway National Refuge Area. Photo courtesy of NPS. U.S. athletes triumphed during the recent Olympiad—loved watching it! I wish I could say the same about our triumphant [...]
Landscape architect Thomas Rainer (whose blog Grounded Design I've raved about) recently spoke to a rapt audience at the National Arboretum's Native Plant Symposium, addressing the big question - how to create a [...]
Guest Rant by David Schmetterling, Montana Wildlife Gardener That’s right, they suck. Someone had to say it. If you want honey bees (Apis mellifera) for say, I don’t know, honey- [...]
Meet David W. Wolfe, Cornell plant scientist and expert on the impacts of climate change on agriculture. Wolfe is also the author of an absolutely delightful book about the soil, Tales [...]
