Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
It's summer. That means glorious sunny days with flower-filled gardens and air filled with heady fragrances. I found out by accident that abelias are perfumed Unless you're in [...]
LIME TREE MARIA IS THE WINNER! Thanks for playing. As I noted, I will be compiling many of these wonderful comments/tree stories into a tree post. Longtime Rant readers know [...]
Next up in my college lawn-class reports: what I learned about clover and alternative grass seed mixes that include flowering plants, and what I would do if I (still) had [...]
Massive storms rolled through Kentucky in late May. We were spared disaster. Thousands of others weren’t so lucky. Trees were downed and power knocked out. This wasn’t the Commonwealth’s [...]
I think I'm a reasonably competent gardener. I've been gardening for over 25 years now, and for 20 of those years I've been earning my living in nurseries and gardens. [...]
What’s in a plant name, indeed? I enjoy finding new-to-me cultivars at the garden center or spring plant sales that stretch the limits of reasonable nomenclature with their hyperbolic, fanciful [...]
There was a luxuriant stand of it in my grandparent’s garden. It fascinated me as a child and I would be hard put to say whether the tiny waxy bells [...]
Visitors' first sight of my front garden - before. I have a happy update to a rant about hating my arborvitae hedge, which I had removed in late [...]
I sometimes go catatonic while standing over an appealing plant I haven’t seen before. Looking like Mr. Pitiful, shoulders slumped, my eyes are fixed on the prize in front [...]
Guest post by Tim Calkins They're everywhere, whirling blades showering off the maples in every gust of wind, the next crop of trees on the move. The first of the [...]
Many years ago, in a family backyard in Alhambra, California, a 17 year old boy started propagating Camellias with the help of his mother and father. That young man's name [...]
