The Four-Season Fragrance Garden — Seattle’s Favorite Garden Store Since 1924
Nothing can conjure up a memory like a certain fragrance. Maybe it’s the smell of pine needles in the sun that makes you recall a...
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Grand Landscapes and Thoroughbreds, too? Meet Ashford Stud
Lucky me. When I posted to Facebook that I’d be going to Lexington, KY to see the town I was born in, a “friend” I...
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Reflecting – GardenRant
It’s a sombre time in the UK as most of you will be aware. Perhaps time for us gardeners to think about reflection in our...
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Time for houseplant fun – GardenRant
Yes, houseplants can be fun, and, in a month or so, after I finish with bulbs, they’ll be the only plants I’m tending until spring....
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Update on Periwinkle – the Sneaky, Low-Life Invader I Underestimated
I’ll admit it’s humbling to reread this post from 2018 in which I defended Periwinkle (Vinca minor) when it’s grown where it can’t do any...
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New Trick for an Old Gardener: Planning and Designing EXACTLY what I want.
This weekend it’s time to get professionally serious about a small area west of my fenced kitchen garden which has functioned as a mini-wildflower meadow...
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Ode to the Green Anoles: Southern Bug Zappers
My latest Guest Rant is dedicated to America’s green anole lizards, the Rodney Dangerfield of beneficial predators. They’re cute. They eat bugs. They don’t...
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Inadequacy, Front, Center, and Heading Off in a General Direction: A Letter from the Midwest
September 12, 2022 Cincinnati, Ohio Dear Marianne, Lord, I can’t begin to describe just how much I got it when you expressed—in the first paragraph...
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ISO Potted Annuals for Pollinators
Every year I notice one plant in particular that people seemed to like above all the rest, at least enough to comment on it, and...
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A Visit to Knoll Gardens.
Knoll Gardens are in Dorset, England. So I know a good many Rant Readers will wonder if it’s of any interest to them. I hope...