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Plants and trellises provide good screening between my back yard and my neighbors’.

What does that mean for this gardener?

Suddenly, I’m not just me.

Fear of AI is at a fever pitch these days as we contemplate the possibility of robots: Taking our jobs Taking over our lives Taking our lives (please check all that apply) So, I decided to head out to the garden which is where most of us go when we are: S…

Rose Garden 10/18/26.

Fellow writers know the pain of setting out six to eight hundred carefully chosen words on a topic, story or opinion guaranteed to resonate, only to hear crickets in the comments.

The rock gardens at Edinburgh BotanicGarden and Kew inspired me.

This is an apple but it’s also a mystery.

Continuing our discussion of what’s still blooming in October, I found a few instances of floral action in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware this week.

I recently had a most peculiar experience.

The first holes I dug were a bold six-year-old boy’s solo attempt to reach China.

Original landscaping shown in this 1938 photo.

Am I the only one on the planet who was truly gobsmacked this week when Monty Don admitted to TWO full-time gardeners beetling away behind the scenes at his beautifully maintained two-acre garden in Herefordshire?

I don’t want to rant this week or talk about some big issue.

Not a fan of brown in the garden?

I went out into the garden early one Sunday a few weeks ago.

Why would I pull out the best-performing rose I’ve ever grown?

Much to my shame I cannot draw.

I bet you all share my appreciation for gardeners willing to put their garden – no matter how new or still developing – on tour.

We’ve all got plants we really love.

What do you do when your best/worst frenemy wins a major award?

I’m not into ‘trigger warnings’ and the suchlike, but this article is going to cover the challenging subject of mental health and its effect on gardeners.

Here in Greenbelt, Maryland, my home of 14 years, the celebration of Labor Day is the highlight of the year.

I just paid a hefty price to have a 14” caliper Acer miyabei ‘State Street’ removed.

Wendell Berry died at home in Port Royal, Kentucky, on August 31st.

When winter begins to end with the snowdrops, I start looking forward.

“A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.”

Gazing on this view of my back garden last month, I couldn’t help but notice the many, many bees and butterflies spending time on the Joe Pye Weed, then checking out the Black-eyed Susans before rejecting them in favor of the orange Lantana blooms, where…

Fellow Ranter, Anne Wareham, has this to say about dahlias: “Sigh.

My photo taken in 2015.

Some time ago Charles wrote this piece for thinkingardens.

In 1995, after 15 years, I closed Holbrook Farm and Nursery in North Carolina and moved back to Louisville, Kentucky.

July was a big month here in Buffalo.

As I walked through the garden I heard a thud.

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s famous Meadow when I visited in July, past its spring flowering.

Crown Fritillary at Keukenhof Gardens Most of us greet the arrival of blooming bulbs in spring as a welcome sign that we’ve gotten to the far side of winter.

There is still time and happiness.

Lucy Allen comes to GardenRant this week from Substack, and from a sweltering and very dry United Kingdom.

It’s not always delightful, being in the garden at the moment here in Wales.

In the early 1970s I was fortunate to share a charming small brick farmhouse with a rotating cast of friends in rural Central Kentucky.

I’ve had a rather adventurous decade as a professional gardener.

After my emotional story last week of being “Banished from the garden I cleared,” I have news about the other large garden I’ve adopted.

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 spe…

The title of this post tells you it won’t be a happy one.

The common sunflower, Helianthus annuus, is probably one of the widely recognised flowers on Earth.

Screen shot of Madame Walska from Lotusland’s introduction video.

This spring I was needing plants.

Sometimes by the time midsummer arrives in my garden I can take a breath.

In Susan’s back yard, the comfrey is abuzz with bees.