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Helps For Garden Journals

How to keep a journal, types, and resources for DIY garden journals. Many of those resources are free.

Online Gardening Notebooks

Ilona Erwin

I’ve admired a graphics artist, Dani, for some time, going on upwards of eight years or more. She now blogs and while visiting her blog, Artful Thoughts, I discovered she has some great resources for nature journalists. Garden journaling is simply a branch of nature journaling, something that has been practiced since olden times. It […]

Keeping a Garden Journal Ilona Erwin

Garden Renovation: Old Plant Friends Invited Back

Ilona Erwin

I’ve been renovating my garden for the past couple years… it had become forsaken and neglected during the press of family obligations. Even though one of the early garden blogging pioneers, my garden blog had languished, as well. But this year, 2008, both blog and garden have seen a flurry of effort from me, and […]

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New Things

Ilona Erwin

I noticed that Kate Smudges has moved to a new blog home on typepad. Some ideas on garden journaling from A Small South Florida Garden: If I am out of graph paper, I print my own by using a Microsoft Word document with a 1/4″ graph in light teal printed on the front and back […]

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18 Ideas for Your Garden Journal

Ilona Erwin

Karen of www.GardenChick.com offers these ideas for filling your a garden journal: * Pictures of gardens you like * Results of soil tests * Seed starting dates, planting times, and harvesting time for your plants * Date of first and last frost for your area * Lunar phases for “planting by the moon” * A […]

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Overcast Days, Dark and Stormy Nights

Ilona Erwin

Like a cheap novel, the days turned dark quite quickly. The plot moves on toward unmistakably dreary November weather. Not my favorite time of year, even though each season has its beauty if you are willing to make yourself aware of it. The suddenly cool and damp weather is the more acutely felt since we […]

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Meet a Good Neighbor

Ilona Erwin

Go say hello to a new neighbor garden blog I just visited:Good Neighbors Blog She grows the most luscious looking veggies! Oh, those heirloom tomatoes… lovely :) Technorati Tags: , Blogroll Me!

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I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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