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Starting a New Garden at Age 80
 There is still time and happiness. As we all know, good flower gardens take time. Hours. Days. Weeks. Seasons. Years. Lives. Add it up: Winter evenings bent over seed catalogs and garden magazines. Spring working the soil and planting. [...]
Do We Really Want More Prairie Gardens in a Heatwave?
Lucy Allen comes to GardenRant this week from Substack, and from a sweltering and very dry United Kingdom. --MW I know. We are all far too hot. But I am going to talk about it, all the same. During this [...]
Take your Camera out at Night
Itâs not always delightful, being in the garden at the moment here in Wales. We have severe drought. You may find plants in sudden collapse, certainly not happy, and the heat and humidity are horrid. But at night it cools [...]
Buckeyes and a Pie
In the early 1970s I was fortunate to share a charming small brick farmhouse with a rotating cast of friends in rural Central Kentucky. The rent was $60.00 per month for three of us. The house sat atop a hill [...]
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– Washington Post gardening editor Adrian Higgins
The War on Invasive Species. Part III: Embrace Curiosity
GardenRant welcomes back garden ecologist Nathan Lambstrom, in Part III of a three-part series discussing invasive species rhetoric, and the negative effects powerful war metaphors have had on the perception and management of exotic and invasive plant species in [...]
Bare Root Plants
This spring I was needing plants. Never, I hear you cry! Well, huh, I did. And I looked online for what I needed and was horrified at the cost of them. And while I quite understand the challenges nurseries [...]
A Fence where no Fence could be.
If youâve ever thought of edging a flower bed with proper professional stuff, you may have been astonished to find that the makers of garden edging assume you live in a flat garden. With no lumps or [...]
GardenRant Voices
GardenRant is the home of independent garden-writing since 2006. It is the work of these highly opinionated gardeners:
GUEST RANTS
GardenRant welcomes âguest rantersâ who want to take over our little piece of cyberspace for the day. Whether youâre in the plant industry or just an ordinary gardener with an axe to grind, youâre invited. Find out more here.
