Maui’s Aplenty With Wowie

Mar 1, 2000 | Design

RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Maui’s Aplenty With Wowie The long plane ride home from Honolulu is the cruelest way possible to end a magical two-week trip to Hawaii. Everything about the nine-hour ordeal is contrary to what one...

Why We Garden

Oct 22, 1999 | Design

RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Why We Garden 10-22-99 – Nothing very exciting happened in my garden this year. One afternoon in my garden I realized that the only colors that get you into trouble are the reds and the oranges. Absolutely...

Designing With Natives

Aug 26, 1999 | Design

RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Designing With Natives Pursue gardening as a primary, lifetime hobby and one thing is certain: your taste in landscape design will change. Quite often, we are unaware of any evolutionary process so far as...

April Muse

Apr 22, 1999 | Design

RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason April Muse Does anything offer more relief than spring? I know why Minnesotans live longer than people in other parts of the country. We have to; we exist in a cycle where for four months a year we are...

Gardens, Not Grass Part III

Oct 1, 1998 | Design

RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Gardens, Not Grass Part III When is the best time to seed a lawn? I say the 1950s, back before anyone gave a hoot about making their landscape pretty, attracting wildlife to their yards, about water...

Gardens, Not Grass Part II

Sep 17, 1998 | Design

RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Gardens, Not Grass Part II Many, many factors have combined to create the current situation whereby we Americans have been hoodwinked into surrounding our homes with great expanses of green grass. It was...