People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
Jack Schultz, News-Herald photo. There are few families in American horticulture with four generations of successful nursery crops. There are even fewer nursery legends with a story so [...]
Jamie Dockery, wizard of farm and garden. August 12, 2017. I don’t know anyone on this planet, or galaxy, with more runaway enthusiasm for gardening than Jamie Dockery. [...]
Rose and 'Heavenly Blue' morning glory. Albert Camus nearly got it right when he wrote: “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is in flower.” The French [...]
At my town's film festival last weekend I met a filmmaker just out of USC film school whose masters project had been accepted by (and then won an award from) [...]
I learned to garden lo these many years ago from two sources - good magazines and good shows on HGTV, back when it had them. (Gardeners love to complain about [...]
A young Steve Still works a push hoe on the 80 acre family farm in Carlinville, Illinois. Steve sold his vegetables in town. Garden Rant contributor Bob Hill [...]
The roof now Buffalo is not landscape architecture central. Aside from a large Olmsted park system (that’s been adulterated in spots), I find many WNY public landscapes uninspired. [...]
These days I follow dozens of gardening channels on YouTube, especially those of Extension universities, where there are hundreds of good veg-growing videos are to be found. Except for the [...]
"A driveway so daunting..." Beautiful in the snow. Somewhere back in the late 80s, I decided I knew more than at least half the landscapers out there and [...]
For months I'd been dying to set my eyes on Joe Lamp'ls new website joegardener.com, hoping for a lot. It launched last week and at the risk of gushing, it [...]
Photo courtesy of Joseph Hillenmeyer. While I wait for my first social security check to arrive later this month, I have been thinking about two crucial mentors. Alberta [...]
Last night the American Horticultural Society held its annual awards gala at its headquarters (above, an estate formerly owned by the Geo. Washington family) on the shores of the Potomac in Alexandria, [...]
