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Garden Rant invades Kirkus Reviews by Elizabeth Licata
At some point—which I missed—the SXSW festival/conference, now going on in Austin, stopped being mainly a music event and started also being about movies, websites, blogs, books, and every kind of new...
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Bizarre? Maybe. Definitely dangerous for the obsessive gardener by Elizabeth...
What follows is Garden Rant’s debut post on the Kirkus Reviews Book Bloggers Network. From now on, we will be reposting the Kirkus posts on Thursdays. We’re taking turns—Kirkus posts from Susan, Amy,...
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What She Said. by Amy Stewart
Genevieve Schmidt and I took a road trip to San Francisco last week for the garden show. She's done such a good job summing the whole thing up on her blog that I have little to add, except to say: The...
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“Plant Driven Design” Sides with Real Gardeners by Susan Harris
Below is my first Kirkus review, and click here to see Amy's Q&A with Andrea Wulf, author of The Founding Gardeners. At last, two garden writers who give voice to what real gardeners everywhere...
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Free issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine by Susan Harris
Did you know that April is National Landscape Architecture Month? Me, neither, but I know about it now because there's something in it for us gardeners – a free issue of Landscape Architecture...
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More “Meet the Author” Nights, please! by Susan Harris
As promised, I attended the recent "Meet the Author" event at the Rodale Institute in Kutztown, PA, featuring three Rodale authors – Derek Fell, Stephen Orr, and our own Michele Owens. In the photo...
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Gnomes! by Elizabeth Licata
Here is what I posted on the Kirkus Books blog last week and click here to read Susan's review of Tomorrow's Garden. —Eliz. Are gnomes the new vampires and fairies the new witches? And where do zombies...
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Red carpet treatment by Elizabeth Licata
That’s what the National Trust for Historic Preservation will be getting in Buffalo this week when they roll in for their annual conference. That is, if the sight of thousands of red mums planted in...
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Beautiful No-Mow Yards is just what American gardeners need. And you can win...
In the last year or so, we’re hearing that there are better uses for our land than turfgrass, that unless it’s needed for sport or play, you can save on resources and probably your labor, too, by...
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Kudos to GrowWrite! and Michael Nolan by Susan Harris
Have you seen the first issue of GrowWrite!? It’s the online magazine for garden communicators that hit the web recently to much acclaim and kudos for its editor, Michael Nolan. He’d previously...
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Leaf Magazine Dazzles by Susan Harris
If you're not one of the 80,000 people already reading Leaf Magazine (after just one issue) then why the hell not? It's a free e-magazine, available right here. The new Spring 2012 issue, at 142...
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Welcome to Garden Rant 2.0—and a word about garden blogging by Elizabeth Licata
Finally. We’ve moved over to a platform that gives us more flexibility, more options, and goes a bit beyond our former traditional blog set-up. We’ve got pages that focus on science, growing food,...
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Start your day with Garden Photos from Fine Gardening by Susan Harris
Townhouse garden in Albany. I usually start my day by for checking email and news of more gaffes by clueless candidates for office but Michelle Gervais, an editor of Fine Gardening Magazine, suggested...
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…as we were the other day…what do you people think about window farming? Worthwhile? Silly? Is this a lot of effort for a salad or a few strawberries? Or is it revolutionary? \ Speaking of TED...
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Garden Writers Should See the World by Michele Owens
Elizabeth introduced our new web design a few months ago by asking an interesting question that was raised at the Asheville Garden Bloggers Fling: Is garden blogging still viable? After all, why blog...
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Landscape architect’s guide to your city coming soon by Susan Harris
The American Society of Landscape Architects recently announced the launch of The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Washington, D.C. – just the first of many across the country. It’s an online,...
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NYT on “Wild Life of American Cities” by Susan Harris
Illustration by Sara Cwynar for the New York Times A New York Times Magazine article titled “Bloom Town: The Wild Life of American Cities” got my attention and that of several Rant readers, who wrote...
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Was Frederick Law Olmsted a Conservation Leader? by Susan Harris
On a visit to the nearby Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge, I stopped to read the signage about America’s “Conservation Leaders” and was surprised to see Frederick Law Olmsted right there, with...
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Here’s someone who hasn’t lost his edge by Elizabeth Licata
Did you see the Renegade Gardener’s 2012 High Spot/Black Spot awards? I don’t always catch these, but Renegade Gardener Don Engebretson (award-winning Minnesota garden writer and designer) is recently...
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Love Downton, but Where are the Gardens? by Garden Rant
Guest Rant by Layanee DeMerchant I confess; I’m caught up in the romance and intrigue of the PBS series, “Downton Abbey.” I’m enjoying the fashion, the opulence and the stunning backdrop of a castle,...
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