Got nothing to do? Okay, got nothing fun to do? Why not try Lowe’s Garden Planner? You’ll need Macromedia Flash and the dimensions of your house and yard. I know, who’s going to schlep out in the snow and measure? So make it up. It’s more fun than doing your taxes, and it’s cheaper than buying some garden design software.
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What, you may ask, does a new file cabinet have to do with gardening? Well, I am storing all my gardening catalogs and gardening-related papers in it. For some of you that will be sufficient explanation; the others will be thinking, “Huh? Papers? What do papers have to do with gardening?” The Bookish Gardener and I were ribbing each other a bit in the comments of this post about our excessive attention to detail. Well, excessive to you “others,” but for those of us who understand these things, it’s precisely the right amount of attention to detail.
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In my snail mail today I received a brochure about “a weekend of seminars and workshops specially designed for gardeners in the North Country” on April 23-25. Presenters include Steve Silk (contributing editor at Fine Gardening), Gordon Hayward (author of several excellent garden books), Stephanie Cohen, and Todd Meir (executive editor of Fine Gardening). While I am familiar with and greatly respect the presenters, I am just a teensy bit suspicious of the content, because the titles of their workshops are the same as the workshops they are giving at other Fine Gardening seminars in other parts of the country. Gordon lives in Vermont, and Todd and Steve live in Connecticut, so they might …
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Just discovered another garden blog via Ilona’s opinion blog: Tangled Branches. Looks nice, haven’t read it much yet. Update: I fixed the link. Sorry about that.
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