Sometimes we Ranters have other things to say – maybe about life – because we don’t JUST garden, ya know.
It's everywhere. Various Chelsea Flower Show gardens this year included the newly fashionable weeds. Interestingly, I saw someone quoted as saying that that was ok because ‘it was [...]
(please don't) Take me out to the ballgame. lindseywb on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Have you ever watched a televised baseball game held at an [...]
Last weekend, in New Orleans, Rose and I rode a sensorial wave of music, food, blooms, and green lusciousness. Mercy me, it was good. All of it. The centerpiece [...]
“The ideal fortune is to find an old garden, once richly cared-for, since sunk into neglect, and to tend, not repair, that neglect.” Words from Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. [...]
Often the new plants gardeners stumble upon each year at our nurseries, feed stores and big boxes are happy accidents. We see, we lust, we buy. But what most don’t [...]
What can social media do for public gardens and the public itself? Quite a lot when you've got someone putting as much time and effort into it as the Smithsonian [...]
A cover story in the Local Living Section of the Washington Post about garden gnomes? I say why not, if it's as interesting as this one, teasing us with a [...]
Screen shot from the "Flowers" video Have you heard Miley Cyrus's hit song "Flowers"? So many millions of us have, it's reached #1 on the charts in 13 [...]
Practicing tossing the hoop in the open area just outside my yard. You know, I've been garden-blogging a LONG time now - since 2005. Then in 2012 [...]
Stutz, a Netflix documentary, with actor Jonah Hill and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, is full of surprises. Because gardens were never mentioned, I had not anticipated clues about gardening, but I [...]
Hard Rake: "Tines down when I fall off the rack. Tines up when I'm laying on the ground. If he thinks I'm his friend, he's got another big knot on his forehead coming!"
‘Tis the season for giving, and once this season ‘tis over, ‘tis another one right around the corner. The pressure is on to find the perfect gift, and if you’re [...]
