Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
Sunflowers for "Wildlife Management" A field full of tall, smiley-faced sunflowers is the perfect location for taking photos - of everything from marriage proposals to everyday selfies. And this field [...]
Perhaps you recall as a kid singing the old “Pop Goes the Weasel” ditty. It opens with “All around the mulberry bush...”. Now I have to note that I've yet [...]
Oakleaf Hydrangeas (Hydrangea quercifolia) is my favorite hydrangea, and this one in my back garden seriously bowls me over in every season. But it's more than a beauty pageant winner [...]
I’m sure some of you are wondering how Marianne’s visit went. Well, she came, saw, conquered and went off again, to explore Cornwall. I felt bereft when she left, but [...]
Of all the plants I have covering the ground, from the front hellstrip to the back alley, the ones that really do the best job of just that - consistently [...]
I reside in downtown Jeffersonville, Indiana now It’s different. I had lived and gardened previously in nearby rural Depauw. It would seem the old saw about change being the [...]
Classic Beach Hydrangeas THIS is the classic beach landscape of my childhood memories, formed while visiting the charming, family-friendly Buckroe Beach in Virginia. The cottages there were much smaller but [...]
Many of my fellow Buffalo gardeners can barely bring themselves to embrace petunias. As for geraniums (pelargoniums)? They’re pretty much off the table. However, out here in the wider gardening [...]
Last week I visited my favorite of all the rose gardens I've ever seen - the one at the U.S. Botanic Garden - and wasn't disappointed. Why is my favorite, [...]
There are a few sayings about weeds. The favorite one is that weeds are just plants in the wrong place. Or plants the gardener doesn’t want. Or that we need [...]
My GardenRant partner Scott wrote about his hundreds of daffodils now "writhing about in their death throes, getting all Shakespearean and shit," and I bet we can all relate. Though [...]
Somewhat less than Sports Illustrated cover material, this proud pink peony has a story all its own. Literally separated from friends and family by a guy with an errant shovel, [...]
