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LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: BIRD BATH WITH RUNNING WATER READY WHEN THE BIRDS ARE The baths are called Bird Bath Art Poles and they’re ingenious, and so simple. You just drive this metal pole into the ground a few inches – you turn it like an augur – then slip a hand-painted PVC pole over it. They’re stable – no tipping over – and it takes up less room in the border since the base is AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING IT Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. DON'T GET THE DRIFT (ROSES) Empty-nested, only a long-suffering wife and a faithful canine now compete for his attentions with the garden. Dr. Roush has written a book of essays based on his personal experiences in the garden, Garden Musings, published in 2009 by iUniverse. Comprised of wry and irreverent observations about gardening and life as a gardener, GardenMusings
JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some GOD HELP THE CANADIAN HEMLOCK I think the Genie has been let out of the bottle on this one or if you prefer Pandora’s Box has been opened. Yes it looks like the Wooly Adelgid came in on imported conifers and in the past, plants or plant products were the most likely source of introduced pests. GARDENRANT - GARDENRANTSHUT UP AND DIGCRRRITICTUNE INMINISTRY OFCONTROVERSY
LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: BIRD BATH WITH RUNNING WATER READY WHEN THE BIRDS ARE The baths are called Bird Bath Art Poles and they’re ingenious, and so simple. You just drive this metal pole into the ground a few inches – you turn it like an augur – then slip a hand-painted PVC pole over it. They’re stable – no tipping over – and it takes up less room in the border since the base is AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING IT Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. DON'T GET THE DRIFT (ROSES) Empty-nested, only a long-suffering wife and a faithful canine now compete for his attentions with the garden. Dr. Roush has written a book of essays based on his personal experiences in the garden, Garden Musings, published in 2009 by iUniverse. Comprised of wry and irreverent observations about gardening and life as a gardener, GardenMusings
JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some GOD HELP THE CANADIAN HEMLOCK I think the Genie has been let out of the bottle on this one or if you prefer Pandora’s Box has been opened. Yes it looks like the Wooly Adelgid came in on imported conifers and in the past, plants or plant products were the most likely source of introduced pests. SEED SOWING SUCCESS: NATURE AND THE ODDS With plant seeds now being around for roughly 365 million years – beginning about the time life first crawled out of the ocean to give dry land a try—my steady reluctance to cast native wildflower seeds on the ground to create a lovely patch of color in our yard did seem alittle silly.
WILL MY JAPANESE MAPLE SURVIVE THE CICADAS? 1 day ago · I am observing the cicadas going after many NONnative trees and shrubs – my lilacs and ornamental cherry, your Japanese Maple, etc. – which seems very counterintuitive and I would have bet that my straight native species little redbud tree was the most impacted, but they ignore it. CALL ME MELLOW YELLOW The Rant’s writing team of horticulturists, authors, nursery owners, columnists, ecologists, speakers, and activists provide an interactive, thought-provoking platform that tackles all THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
EVEN GARDEN WRITERS WHO HATE TRUMP ARE DEFENDING THE ROSE According to Washingtonian Magazine: Trump tapped a New Yorker, a landscape architect from the Hamptons named Perry Guillot. Guillot is a favorite of Hamptonites like Aerin Lauder, Tina Brown, and Tory Burch,’ according to Vanity Fair, and is ‘somewhat of an authority on privacy-affording shrubbery,’ according to The Architect’s ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED For decades, it was an overgrown tangle of weed trees and buckthorn, with its few original plantings nearly strangled by years of neglect. When attention was finally paid to Graycliff, Buffalo’s formerly magnificent lakeside structure by Frank Lloyd Wright, built as a summer home in 1926 for Darwin and Isabelle Martin, restoration of the residence had to come first. SUSAN HARRIS, AUTHOR AT GARDENRANT Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in2014.
WHAT'S THE POINT OF PERGOLAS? Creating DC Gardens, the nonprofit campaign to promote the public gardens of the Washington, D.C. area, and gardening by locals. Creating and editing the nonprofit website Greenbelt Online to serve her adopted hometown of Greenbelt, Maryland (a “New Deal Utopia”founded in 1937).
FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN AND THE WHITE HOUSE GARDENS First, let’s go to the photos, like the one above of Dr. Biden doing a campaign video from their home in Wilmington. Whether she gardens or not, she clearly HAS a garden, and it looks lovely. Here’s another photo, presumably in their Wilmington garden, with Champ. That doesn’t tell us whether she (or her husband) actually gardens, of "MARTHA KNOWS BEST" IS GREAT, BUT DOES SHE REALLY Okay!) But back to Martha’s quarantine location, she’s there with her quarantine family (her fellow “detainees”) of at least three essential staffers – a housekeeper, a driver, and gardener Ryan McCallister. Shown above, Martha and staff enjoy her famous “Martha-Ritas.”. One headliner writer got it right: “MarthaStewart is in
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LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING IT Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. IS LANDSCAPE FABRIC EVER NOT HORRIBLE? It’s also needed under decks, patios, and other hardscapes.”. Okay. More research led me to “6 Reasons why Landscape Fabric is a Bad Idea” from a lawn-care company, including this additional negative I hadn’t heard yet: “The fabric contains petroleum and other chemicals. Most gardening experts advise gardeners to avoidusing
GOD HELP THE CANADIAN HEMLOCK I think the Genie has been let out of the bottle on this one or if you prefer Pandora’s Box has been opened. Yes it looks like the Wooly Adelgid came in on imported conifers and in the past, plants or plant products were the most likely source of introduced pests. GARDENRANT - GARDENRANTSHUT UP AND DIGCRRRITICTUNE INMINISTRY OFCONTROVERSY
LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING IT Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. IS LANDSCAPE FABRIC EVER NOT HORRIBLE? It’s also needed under decks, patios, and other hardscapes.”. Okay. More research led me to “6 Reasons why Landscape Fabric is a Bad Idea” from a lawn-care company, including this additional negative I hadn’t heard yet: “The fabric contains petroleum and other chemicals. Most gardening experts advise gardeners to avoidusing
GOD HELP THE CANADIAN HEMLOCK I think the Genie has been let out of the bottle on this one or if you prefer Pandora’s Box has been opened. Yes it looks like the Wooly Adelgid came in on imported conifers and in the past, plants or plant products were the most likely source of introduced pests. SEED SOWING SUCCESS: NATURE AND THE ODDS With plant seeds now being around for roughly 365 million years – beginning about the time life first crawled out of the ocean to give dry land a try—my steady reluctance to cast native wildflower seeds on the ground to create a lovely patch of color in our yard did seem alittle silly.
WILL MY JAPANESE MAPLE SURVIVE THE CICADAS? 9 hours ago · Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and CALL ME MELLOW YELLOW The Rant’s writing team of horticulturists, authors, nursery owners, columnists, ecologists, speakers, and activists provide an interactive, thought-provoking platform that tackles all THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
EVEN GARDEN WRITERS WHO HATE TRUMP ARE DEFENDING THE ROSE According to Washingtonian Magazine: Trump tapped a New Yorker, a landscape architect from the Hamptons named Perry Guillot. Guillot is a favorite of Hamptonites like Aerin Lauder, Tina Brown, and Tory Burch,’ according to Vanity Fair, and is ‘somewhat of an authority on privacy-affording shrubbery,’ according to The Architect’sMOSQUITO CONTROL
Reiskind explains, “Mosquito control companies spray an insecticide — almost always a pyrethroid — to vegetation outside your house. That vegetation is where mosquitoes like to rest, so it kills them when they go in there. But it will kill other insects that go in there to rest. We call that a ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED For decades, it was an overgrown tangle of weed trees and buckthorn, with its few original plantings nearly strangled by years of neglect. When attention was finally paid to Graycliff, Buffalo’s formerly magnificent lakeside structure by Frank Lloyd Wright, built as a summer home in 1926 for Darwin and Isabelle Martin, restoration of the residence had to come first. FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN AND THE WHITE HOUSE GARDENS First, let’s go to the photos, like the one above of Dr. Biden doing a campaign video from their home in Wilmington. Whether she gardens or not, she clearly HAS a garden, and it looks lovely. Here’s another photo, presumably in their Wilmington garden, with Champ. That doesn’t tell us whether she (or her husband) actually gardens, of SUSAN HARRIS, AUTHOR AT GARDENRANT Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in2014.
THAT DAY I THOUGHT GARDENING HAD GIVEN ME A HEART ATTACK That Day I Thought Gardening had Given me a Heart Attack. The other day I was working in this garden, digging up and planting large clumps of these Black-eyed Susans, when my body suddenly scared the bejesus out of me. My heart was pounding fast and wouldn’t slow down when I stopped moving. After I sat down to rest and drank some water I GARDENRANT - GARDENRANTSHUT UP AND DIGCRRRITICTUNE INMINISTRY OFCONTROVERSY
LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED A croquet lawn was restored. In a compromise, Wright’s pond, which Shipman had filled in, was brought back (as seen at top), so the garden would look exactly as it did in 1931, with elements from Shipman and Wright. Now Buffalo has two original FLW-era landscapes on Frank Lloyd Wright properties. It’s interesting to consider thealternatives.
MOSQUITO CONTROL
Reiskind explains, “Mosquito control companies spray an insecticide — almost always a pyrethroid — to vegetation outside your house. That vegetation is where mosquitoes like to rest, so it kills them when they go in there. But it will kill other insects that go in there to rest. We call that a I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING IT Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
GARDENRANT - GARDENRANTSHUT UP AND DIGCRRRITICTUNE INMINISTRY OFCONTROVERSY
LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED A croquet lawn was restored. In a compromise, Wright’s pond, which Shipman had filled in, was brought back (as seen at top), so the garden would look exactly as it did in 1931, with elements from Shipman and Wright. Now Buffalo has two original FLW-era landscapes on Frank Lloyd Wright properties. It’s interesting to consider thealternatives.
MOSQUITO CONTROL
Reiskind explains, “Mosquito control companies spray an insecticide — almost always a pyrethroid — to vegetation outside your house. That vegetation is where mosquitoes like to rest, so it kills them when they go in there. But it will kill other insects that go in there to rest. We call that a I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING IT Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
THE GARDENRANT STORY The GardenRant Story. To help celebrate GardenRant’s 15th anniversary this year, I’ve pulled together the story of how it started, how it continued through changes in life circumstances and technical crises, and how it’s changed my own life. Michele Owens – fit, classy, and boy can she write.GARDENS AND MUSIC
A Choral Feast. At Christmas we went to a (socially distanced) concert in Hereford Cathedral.We are great fans of small choirs who sing Renaissance, Baroque and modern choral music: in this case it was Ex Cathedra.And part of the beauty of the experience is the places these choirs perform in, which are usually cathedrals. FILM "THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM" AND APPHARVEST AppHarvest is a colossal, high-tech 60-acre greenhouse descendant of the 19 th -century Wardian case. Farming is not the land of milk and honey. The dairy industry is in the tank, and bees are in decline. It’s hard to make a living in agriculture. ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED For decades, it was an overgrown tangle of weed trees and buckthorn, with its few original plantings nearly strangled by years of neglect. When attention was finally paid to Graycliff, Buffalo’s formerly magnificent lakeside structure by Frank Lloyd Wright, built as a summer home in 1926 for Darwin and Isabelle Martin, restoration of the residence had to come first. EVEN GARDEN WRITERS WHO HATE TRUMP ARE DEFENDING THE ROSE According to Washingtonian Magazine: Trump tapped a New Yorker, a landscape architect from the Hamptons named Perry Guillot. Guillot is a favorite of Hamptonites like Aerin Lauder, Tina Brown, and Tory Burch,’ according to Vanity Fair, and is ‘somewhat of an authority on privacy-affording shrubbery,’ according to The Architect’s THE POINTLESS, INACCURACY-LADEN PETITION TO "RESTORE That’s because the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden is the East Garden, not the famous Rose Garden outside the West Wing that is the subject of the redesign. (See the White House Historical Association’s History of the President Kennedy’s Rose Garden .”) I asked Marta for her take on the petition and she responded: Lots of inaccuracies in this BIRD BATH WITH RUNNING WATER READY WHEN THE BIRDS ARE The baths are called Bird Bath Art Poles and they’re ingenious, and so simple. You just drive this metal pole into the ground a few inches – you turn it like an augur – then slip a hand-painted PVC pole over it. They’re stable – no tipping over – and it takes up less room in the border since the base is I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in IS LANDSCAPE FABRIC EVER NOT HORRIBLE? It’s also needed under decks, patios, and other hardscapes.”. Okay. More research led me to “6 Reasons why Landscape Fabric is a Bad Idea” from a lawn-care company, including this additional negative I hadn’t heard yet: “The fabric contains petroleum and other chemicals. Most gardening experts advise gardeners to avoidusing
GOD HELP THE CANADIAN HEMLOCK I think the Genie has been let out of the bottle on this one or if you prefer Pandora’s Box has been opened. Yes it looks like the Wooly Adelgid came in on imported conifers and in the past, plants or plant products were the most likely source of introduced pests. GARDENRANT - GARDENRANTSHUT UP AND DIGCRRRITICTUNE INMINISTRY OFCONTROVERSY
LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED A croquet lawn was restored. In a compromise, Wright’s pond, which Shipman had filled in, was brought back (as seen at top), so the garden would look exactly as it did in 1931, with elements from Shipman and Wright. Now Buffalo has two original FLW-era landscapes on Frank Lloyd Wright properties. It’s interesting to consider thealternatives.
MOSQUITO CONTROL
Reiskind explains, “Mosquito control companies spray an insecticide — almost always a pyrethroid — to vegetation outside your house. That vegetation is where mosquitoes like to rest, so it kills them when they go in there. But it will kill other insects that go in there to rest. We call that a I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING IT Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
GARDENRANT - GARDENRANTSHUT UP AND DIGCRRRITICTUNE INMINISTRY OFCONTROVERSY
LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED A croquet lawn was restored. In a compromise, Wright’s pond, which Shipman had filled in, was brought back (as seen at top), so the garden would look exactly as it did in 1931, with elements from Shipman and Wright. Now Buffalo has two original FLW-era landscapes on Frank Lloyd Wright properties. It’s interesting to consider thealternatives.
MOSQUITO CONTROL
Reiskind explains, “Mosquito control companies spray an insecticide — almost always a pyrethroid — to vegetation outside your house. That vegetation is where mosquitoes like to rest, so it kills them when they go in there. But it will kill other insects that go in there to rest. We call that a I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING IT Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
THE GARDENRANT STORY The GardenRant Story. To help celebrate GardenRant’s 15th anniversary this year, I’ve pulled together the story of how it started, how it continued through changes in life circumstances and technical crises, and how it’s changed my own life. Michele Owens – fit, classy, and boy can she write.GARDENS AND MUSIC
A Choral Feast. At Christmas we went to a (socially distanced) concert in Hereford Cathedral.We are great fans of small choirs who sing Renaissance, Baroque and modern choral music: in this case it was Ex Cathedra.And part of the beauty of the experience is the places these choirs perform in, which are usually cathedrals. FILM "THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM" AND APPHARVEST AppHarvest is a colossal, high-tech 60-acre greenhouse descendant of the 19 th -century Wardian case. Farming is not the land of milk and honey. The dairy industry is in the tank, and bees are in decline. It’s hard to make a living in agriculture. ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED For decades, it was an overgrown tangle of weed trees and buckthorn, with its few original plantings nearly strangled by years of neglect. When attention was finally paid to Graycliff, Buffalo’s formerly magnificent lakeside structure by Frank Lloyd Wright, built as a summer home in 1926 for Darwin and Isabelle Martin, restoration of the residence had to come first. EVEN GARDEN WRITERS WHO HATE TRUMP ARE DEFENDING THE ROSE According to Washingtonian Magazine: Trump tapped a New Yorker, a landscape architect from the Hamptons named Perry Guillot. Guillot is a favorite of Hamptonites like Aerin Lauder, Tina Brown, and Tory Burch,’ according to Vanity Fair, and is ‘somewhat of an authority on privacy-affording shrubbery,’ according to The Architect’s THE POINTLESS, INACCURACY-LADEN PETITION TO "RESTORE That’s because the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden is the East Garden, not the famous Rose Garden outside the West Wing that is the subject of the redesign. (See the White House Historical Association’s History of the President Kennedy’s Rose Garden .”) I asked Marta for her take on the petition and she responded: Lots of inaccuracies in this BIRD BATH WITH RUNNING WATER READY WHEN THE BIRDS ARE The baths are called Bird Bath Art Poles and they’re ingenious, and so simple. You just drive this metal pole into the ground a few inches – you turn it like an augur – then slip a hand-painted PVC pole over it. They’re stable – no tipping over – and it takes up less room in the border since the base is I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in IS LANDSCAPE FABRIC EVER NOT HORRIBLE? It’s also needed under decks, patios, and other hardscapes.”. Okay. More research led me to “6 Reasons why Landscape Fabric is a Bad Idea” from a lawn-care company, including this additional negative I hadn’t heard yet: “The fabric contains petroleum and other chemicals. Most gardening experts advise gardeners to avoidusing
GOD HELP THE CANADIAN HEMLOCK I think the Genie has been let out of the bottle on this one or if you prefer Pandora’s Box has been opened. Yes it looks like the Wooly Adelgid came in on imported conifers and in the past, plants or plant products were the most likely source of introduced pests. GARDENRANT - GARDENRANTSHUT UP AND DIGCRRRITICTUNE INMINISTRY OFCONTROVERSY
LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED A croquet lawn was restored. In a compromise, Wright’s pond, which Shipman had filled in, was brought back (as seen at top), so the garden would look exactly as it did in 1931, with elements from Shipman and Wright. Now Buffalo has two original FLW-era landscapes on Frank Lloyd Wright properties. It’s interesting to consider thealternatives.
MOSQUITO CONTROL
Reiskind explains, “Mosquito control companies spray an insecticide — almost always a pyrethroid — to vegetation outside your house. That vegetation is where mosquitoes like to rest, so it kills them when they go in there. But it will kill other insects that go in there to rest. We call that a I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING IT Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
GARDENRANT - GARDENRANTSHUT UP AND DIGCRRRITICTUNE INMINISTRY OFCONTROVERSY
LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
THE ROBIN'S EMPTY NEST The Robin’s Empty Nest. We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens. Robins define spring, new life. They build their nests insideout.
NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED A croquet lawn was restored. In a compromise, Wright’s pond, which Shipman had filled in, was brought back (as seen at top), so the garden would look exactly as it did in 1931, with elements from Shipman and Wright. Now Buffalo has two original FLW-era landscapes on Frank Lloyd Wright properties. It’s interesting to consider thealternatives.
MOSQUITO CONTROL
Reiskind explains, “Mosquito control companies spray an insecticide — almost always a pyrethroid — to vegetation outside your house. That vegetation is where mosquitoes like to rest, so it kills them when they go in there. But it will kill other insects that go in there to rest. We call that a I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING IT Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
THE GARDENRANT STORY The GardenRant Story. To help celebrate GardenRant’s 15th anniversary this year, I’ve pulled together the story of how it started, how it continued through changes in life circumstances and technical crises, and how it’s changed my own life. Michele Owens – fit, classy, and boy can she write. FILM "THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM" AND APPHARVEST AppHarvest is a colossal, high-tech 60-acre greenhouse descendant of the 19 th -century Wardian case. Farming is not the land of milk and honey. The dairy industry is in the tank, and bees are in decline. It’s hard to make a living in agriculture.GARDENS AND MUSIC
A Choral Feast. At Christmas we went to a (socially distanced) concert in Hereford Cathedral.We are great fans of small choirs who sing Renaissance, Baroque and modern choral music: in this case it was Ex Cathedra.And part of the beauty of the experience is the places these choirs perform in, which are usually cathedrals. THE POINTLESS, INACCURACY-LADEN PETITION TO "RESTORE That’s because the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden is the East Garden, not the famous Rose Garden outside the West Wing that is the subject of the redesign. (See the White House Historical Association’s History of the President Kennedy’s Rose Garden .”) I asked Marta for her take on the petition and she responded: Lots of inaccuracies in this ELLEN BIDDLE SHIPMAN, RESTORED For decades, it was an overgrown tangle of weed trees and buckthorn, with its few original plantings nearly strangled by years of neglect. When attention was finally paid to Graycliff, Buffalo’s formerly magnificent lakeside structure by Frank Lloyd Wright, built as a summer home in 1926 for Darwin and Isabelle Martin, restoration of the residence had to come first. I HATE MY ARBORVITAE HEDGE I Hate my Arborvitae Hedge. I’m here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op’s rules would allow – use plants as screens. But even ardent plant-lovers like myself can see the troubles plants can cause when tasked with providing screening in EVEN GARDEN WRITERS WHO HATE TRUMP ARE DEFENDING THE ROSE According to Washingtonian Magazine: Trump tapped a New Yorker, a landscape architect from the Hamptons named Perry Guillot. Guillot is a favorite of Hamptonites like Aerin Lauder, Tina Brown, and Tory Burch,’ according to Vanity Fair, and is ‘somewhat of an authority on privacy-affording shrubbery,’ according to The Architect’s A FEARLESS GARDENER SHARES SOME OF HER NONRULES The author’s front garden is a cramscaped riot of drought-tolerant plantings—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Commandment: Thou shalt keep thy front yard for lawn and thy backyard for thy garden. The subject of what is appropriate for front yard gardening has been debated many times here on Garden Rant. IS LANDSCAPE FABRIC EVER NOT HORRIBLE? It’s also needed under decks, patios, and other hardscapes.”. Okay. More research led me to “6 Reasons why Landscape Fabric is a Bad Idea” from a lawn-care company, including this additional negative I hadn’t heard yet: “The fabric contains petroleum and other chemicals. Most gardening experts advise gardeners to avoidusing
GOD HELP THE CANADIAN HEMLOCK I think the Genie has been let out of the bottle on this one or if you prefer Pandora’s Box has been opened. Yes it looks like the Wooly Adelgid came in on imported conifers and in the past, plants or plant products were the most likely source of introduced pests. GARDENRANT - GARDENRANTSHUT UP AND DIGCRRRITICTUNE INMINISTRY OFCONTROVERSY
LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING ITHOW TO CURE POISON IVY OVERNIGHTHOW TO ERADICATE POISON IVYCOST TO REMOVE POISON IVYCURE POISON IVY RASH OVERNIGHTPOISON IVY LASTS HOW LONGPOISON IVYON FACE TREATMENT
Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some HGTV STARS - WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - GARDENRANT I learned to garden lo these many years ago from two sources – good magazines and good shows on HGTV, back when it had them. (Gardeners love to complain about the missing G from the channel and this year that’s truer than ever, judging from their new shows and episodes where house-hunting and lifestyle porn abound and gardening has gonemissing altogether.
IS LANDSCAPE FABRIC EVER NOT HORRIBLE? It’s also needed under decks, patios, and other hardscapes.”. Okay. More research led me to “6 Reasons why Landscape Fabric is a Bad Idea” from a lawn-care company, including this additional negative I hadn’t heard yet: “The fabric contains petroleum and other chemicals. Most gardening experts advise gardeners to avoidusing
"INVASIVE" GROUND COVERS AND THE CASE FOR ALLOWING The Invasive Plant Atlas says it’s “invading natural areas throughout the Eastern U.S. It inhabits open to shady sites including forests and often escapes from old homesites.”. The State of Indiana says: “Once established, Vinca minor forms a dense carpet to the exclusion of other plants. This creates a problem where it iscompeting
GOD HELP THE CANADIAN HEMLOCK I think the Genie has been let out of the bottle on this one or if you prefer Pandora’s Box has been opened. Yes it looks like the Wooly Adelgid came in on imported conifers and in the past, plants or plant products were the most likely source of introduced pests. GARDENRANT - GARDENRANTSHUT UP AND DIGCRRRITICTUNE INMINISTRY OFCONTROVERSY
LATEST RANTS “One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustiercorners.” -
MEET LAURA LEBOUTILLIER, THE NEW ON-CAMERA GARDENING GURU Favorites Traffic stats don’t lie, and viewers LOVE Laura’s video about identifying hydrangeas – actually, any video about hydrangeas – and “DIY Bird Seed Wreath.” And her new “5 Best” series on various topics, like this one about tools, has been an instant hit.. As a curator of videos I’ve watched a bunch of Laura’s and selected 16 of them to include in the Good Gardening NOW IT'S CULTIVAR SHAMING? About the Author: Susan Harris. Susan’s a garden writer, teacher and activist in the Washington, D.C. area. Co-founder of GardenRant, she also wrote for national gardening magazines and independent garden centers before retiring in 2014. Now she has time for these projects: AT A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-BUILT HOME, A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE At a Frank Lloyd Wright-built home, a historic landscape in Buffalo is recreated. Buffalo’s Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and three structures (pergola, conservatory, andcarriage
HOW TO GET POISON IVY OFF YOUR SKIN AND AVOID GETTING ITHOW TO CURE POISON IVY OVERNIGHTHOW TO ERADICATE POISON IVYCOST TO REMOVE POISON IVYCURE POISON IVY RASH OVERNIGHTPOISON IVY LASTS HOW LONGPOISON IVYON FACE TREATMENT
Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine compared Tecnu, (a chemical inactivator), Goop (an oil remover) and Dial ultra dishwashing soap (a surfactant) against no treatment and found these percentage reductions in the amount of urushiol left on the body, compared to no treatment. Tecnu – 70%. Goop – 62%. JERRY BAKER'S QUACKERY CONTINUES AFTER HIS DEATH Jerry Baker’s Quackery Continues after his Death. Jerry Baker, the self-styled “America’s Master Gardener” and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious to see how the gardening world would note his passing, especially those who attacked his teachings, some HGTV STARS - WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - GARDENRANT I learned to garden lo these many years ago from two sources – good magazines and good shows on HGTV, back when it had them. (Gardeners love to complain about the missing G from the channel and this year that’s truer than ever, judging from their new shows and episodes where house-hunting and lifestyle porn abound and gardening has gonemissing altogether.
IS LANDSCAPE FABRIC EVER NOT HORRIBLE? It’s also needed under decks, patios, and other hardscapes.”. Okay. More research led me to “6 Reasons why Landscape Fabric is a Bad Idea” from a lawn-care company, including this additional negative I hadn’t heard yet: “The fabric contains petroleum and other chemicals. Most gardening experts advise gardeners to avoidusing
"INVASIVE" GROUND COVERS AND THE CASE FOR ALLOWING The Invasive Plant Atlas says it’s “invading natural areas throughout the Eastern U.S. It inhabits open to shady sites including forests and often escapes from old homesites.”. The State of Indiana says: “Once established, Vinca minor forms a dense carpet to the exclusion of other plants. This creates a problem where it iscompeting
GOD HELP THE CANADIAN HEMLOCK I think the Genie has been let out of the bottle on this one or if you prefer Pandora’s Box has been opened. Yes it looks like the Wooly Adelgid came in on imported conifers and in the past, plants or plant products were the most likely source of introduced pests. WELCOMING THE UNINVITED It doesn’t surprise me when garden plants moved to new places become weeds. What I found amazing was when the wild evening primroses I tried unsuccessfully to transplant into my Texas garden when I was a 12 year old started showing up in garden catalogs and nurseries herein New York.
CLEMATIS, YOU'D BETTER BE WORTH ALL THIS FUSSING OVER I’m all about the vines since I’ve started training them to give me screening and privacy (see before and after in this video).But I hadn’t included clematis in the project because I’d never had success with them – unless you count the out-of-control Sweet AutumnClematis that’s a
FLUFFING UP FOR A GARDEN TOUR Our fluffed-up Louisville Garden was scheduled to be on the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days tour this Saturday. The Kentucky portion, with five gardens, got cancelled a CLOISTERED BY COVID, THINKING OF A TRAPPIST ABBEY Cloistered by COVID, Thinking of a Trappist Abbey. Library of Congress archival photo. I began dreaming of a walled sanctuary soon after I began gardening in the 1970s. I wondered what it would be like to live behind the cloistered wall of a monastery, sealed off from the chaos of the outside world. Rose and I are now cloistered. EVEN GARDEN WRITERS WHO HATE TRUMP ARE DEFENDING THE ROSE According to Washingtonian Magazine: Trump tapped a New Yorker, a landscape architect from the Hamptons named Perry Guillot. Guillot is a favorite of Hamptonites like Aerin Lauder, Tina Brown, and Tory Burch,’ according to Vanity Fair, and is ‘somewhat of an authority on privacy-affording shrubbery,’ according to The Architect’s ECO-FRIENDLY, LOW-MAINTENANCE GARDENING WITH ROY DIBLIK Way back (it seems) in February, I attended a popular winter event for DC-area gardeners – the Green Matters Symposium of Brookside Gardens.. The highlight for me was the keynote address by Wisconsin plantsman Roy Diblik – “Design Strategies for Low Maintenance and Ecologically Beneficial Landscapes.” What’s striking about this eco-gardening approach is its focus on low-maintenance BIRD BATH WITH RUNNING WATER READY WHEN THE BIRDS ARE The baths are called Bird Bath Art Poles and they’re ingenious, and so simple. You just drive this metal pole into the ground a few inches – you turn it like an augur – then slip a hand-painted PVC pole over it. They’re stable – no tipping over – and it takes up less room in the border since the base is IS LANDSCAPE FABRIC EVER NOT HORRIBLE? It’s also needed under decks, patios, and other hardscapes.”. Okay. More research led me to “6 Reasons why Landscape Fabric is a Bad Idea” from a lawn-care company, including this additional negative I hadn’t heard yet: “The fabric contains petroleum and other chemicals. Most gardening experts advise gardeners to avoidusing
BULB-PLANTING RULES I BREAK It’s not precise, but close enough. And I more or less follow the recommendations about planting in late fall, at least by the end of December (here in Zone 7). I know some rule-breakers brag about planting bulbs as late as February to no ill effect, but that much rule-breaking is too much for even me. By Susan Harris |.2021-01-25T18:38:50
"MARTHA KNOWS BEST" IS GREAT, BUT DOES SHE REALLY Okay!) But back to Martha’s quarantine location, she’s there with her quarantine family (her fellow “detainees”) of at least three essential staffers – a housekeeper, a driver, and gardener Ryan McCallister. Shown above, Martha and staff enjoy her famous “Martha-Ritas.”. One headliner writer got it right: “MarthaStewart is in
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2021-06-04T07:56:19-04:00 CLEMATIS, YOU’D BETTER BE WORTH ALL THIS FUSSING OVER.By Susan Harris
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I'm all about the vines since I've started training them to give me screening and privacy (see before and after in this video). But I hadn't included clematis in the project because I'd never had successwith them - unless
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2021-06-02T16:34:45-04:00 TOUGH PLANTS FOR TOUGH PLACES By Marianne Willburn |2021-06-02T16:34:45-04:00June 3, 2021|Rant's Plants |8 Comments Three warrior species are battling for dominance on the hillside outside my kitchen window. It is a cliched phrase in the garden writer’s book of spells, but it is nonetheless apt. Tiny, passive – but aggressive – moves are made*
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Our fluffed-up Louisville Garden was scheduled to be on the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days tour this Saturday. The Kentucky portion, with five gardens, got cancelled a week ago by mutual consent. What a pity. Poor communication, lack of publicity and*
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Someone defined a weed as any plant that's growing in the wrong spot. I think most would agree it's also any plant that is generally hated. Yet there are some who sing the praises of such as the lowlydandelion,
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2021-04-26T15:57:09-04:00 HUGE RIFT AT AMERICAN HORT SOCIETY OVER SALE OF RIVER FARMBy Susan Harris
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I reported here last October that the American Horticultural Society had decided to sell its historic River Farm headquarters, and mentioned some blowback from the community. Well! Since then the blowback has turned into a tsunami ofRANT’S PLANTS
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We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds of trips into our fields and gardens.GARDENRANT VOICES
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