Putting Everything On The Level Of Garden Catalogs Do we really have to hype gardening with lots of meaningless superlatives? Run on the quests of finding “the latest trend”? Or promote that everything in gardening can be “made easy”?I know we pander to marketing ploys as writers, everyone hungry for that scrap ( or maybe […]
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Peek-a-Boo Garden Blogging
” I don’t know what it is about the culture of professional writers, but they seem to have a hard time with transparency and citation of sources.” -Gardenbloggers, Disclosure and Trust Written by MrBrownThumb in May of 2012. I read that in a post that discussed transparency in blogging, etc. and the controversy that has […]
What’s Wrong With Gardening Today?
You may love modern gardening and think there is nothing wrong with it. That would have been me. Little did I think when picking up a book that appeared benignly similar to most books of its kind, that I would happen upon some thoughts that deeply expressed the way I view gardening. Now, after all […]
Lawn Politics
I’m sorry, I sort of had to laugh when reading an exchange between two garden writers. Not sure what social media form it was, but one let slip the admiration for a lawn. The silent gasp was almost audible from the other, though it was rather polite, and the first gardenperson was not quite, but […]
October State of the Garden
It is a beautiful autumn day. Sunshine, clear skies, and changing foliage, warm with gentle breezes. A beautiful day. October, and Where Are All the Flower Bulbs? I went to the stores (several) looking for crocus bulbs and bone meal. This is the height of the bulb planting season, right? All the fall planting areas […]
