Quit throwing out the scary stuff: compost it instead!
As I emptied buckets of human waste into a bin filled with red wigglers, the realization hit me: I had reached peak compost. This was it. Eggshells and hair wer...
Natives – A Moving Target?
Will the wild orchids in my woods survive the changes of the next half century? There was a certain irony in the timing, given America’s withdrawal from the P...
Mort Libby
“A driveway so daunting…” Beautiful in the snow. Scott Beuerlein returns with another Guest Rant and pays tribute to one of the good ones. Somewhere back in the...
Trends I won’t be following this season
This is what’s trending in the house right now: Erlicheer tazettas from Old House Gardens At this time of year, the inboxes of garden writers (and editors of an...
On the 25th Anniversary of Bold Romantic Gardens
Today’s Guest Rant by Susan Rademacher is a fond reminiscence of garden makers Jim van Sweden and Wolfgang Oehme on the 25th anniversary of the publication of B...
Weeds are for Eating!
Author’s intentional edible weed garden. Last month found me driving north through the Salinas Valley, a long, narrow lowland known to many as the “salad bowl o...
A Tale of Two Gardens
City Garden I have two gardens and can barely keep up with one. The first garden is in Louisville, where Rose and I have lived for 18 years. It’s on a one-third...
LANDSCAPE SNARK-ITECHT!!!
Should this be my new job title? (as an aside, this is a lot of lawn for drought ridden Southern California – please be reassured that I have talked the clients...
Always Dreaming
Long lines at the betting window last weekend were not my concern. I piddled around on Derby Day at home—on the couch and in the garden. I dodged rain showers o...