“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
But more plants everywhere is the only easy answer here. Which ones where is more nuanced and there will always be room for tweaking and constructive debate.
As a longtime preservation activist, I have special empathy for those who advocate for landscape preservation. It’s hard enough to keep historic buildings going, but landscapes are a special challenge. [...]
Including the traditional art of supporting weeping cherry trees As weeping cherry tree, planted in the 1950s, with new supports. Who knew that the building of supports to [...]
The opening graph contained these words: “This may be the strangest garden in America, at once the darkest and most joyous, unlike any other place I’ve been.” Now there’s an [...]
About halfway through a fascinating article about a botanic garden on the Isle of Wight I’d never heard of - I’ve never heard of any gardens on the Isle of [...]
UPDATE: Big spread in the Washington Post about this tree's role in the campaign to save the Red Spruce. (Paywall troubles? Try accessing it through your public library's website.) [...]
I last posted about the amazing plant-based monument replicas at the U.S. Botanic Garden back in 2018, and I think it's time for an update. One of the recent additions [...]
The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference. --Thomas Merton Steve Foltz In [...]
If you know anything about the famous Cincinnati Zoo, it may be thanks to its photo- and video-genic baby hippos, like Fiona and Fritz above. I follow the Zoo on [...]
Lucky me. When I posted to Facebook that I'd be going to Lexington, KY to see the town I was born in, a "friend" I didn't actually know introduced herself [...]
Every year I notice one plant in particular that people seemed to like above all the rest, at least enough to comment on it, and this year it's the common [...]
Knoll Gardens are in Dorset, England. So I know a good many Rant Readers will wonder if it's of any interest to them. I hope I can bring some interest [...]
