Thank you for nominating this blog for Best Garden Blog Design. I’ve put a lot of thought and hours into the design, and I’m pleased that you appreciate my efforts.
According to the Mouse & Trowel website, “the Mouse & Trowel Awards were created by freelance writer and garden blogger Colleen Vanderlinden to honor and reward […]
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Cold Climate Gardening garners a Mouse and Trowel nomination
April 26th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Categories: About this site · Blogging Art and Practice
Spring Fling: The people
April 11th, 2008 · 17 Comments
The day after I got home from Austin I started on my post about Spring Fling, the first national garden bloggers meet-up. I decided I was not going to go into a lot of detail, but just upload the best of my photos and comment on them. So I forgot that photos are the most […]
Categories: Events
Second Nature: Garden Bloggers’ Book Club
March 30th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Just as we wonder guiltily whether the food we put in our mouth is good for us, so we now wonder just as guiltily whether what we do in the garden is good for the planet. It was not so much that way back in 1991, when this book was published. In fact, I am […]
Categories: Book reviews
Winner of the Nightshade Drawing
March 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Congratulations to Mary Laverty, who won a copy of Nightshade, the newest novel in the series by Susan Wittig Albert. Mary followed the link on Susan’s guest post to enter the drawing for the free copy. Each post in Susan’s blog tour has a unique link to a separate drawing for a copy of Nightshade. […]
Categories: Miscellaneous
Early spring blossoms: Crocus and snowdrops
March 24th, 2008 · 14 Comments
The temperatures are still dropping into the teens every night (last night’s low: 17.5F or -8C) and even when the high hits 40F (4C) the brisk wind makes it feel chillier. But at least a hurried stroll around the premises is now rewarded with signs that Spring is slowly making inroads in Winter’s territory. These […]
Categories: What's up/blooming · Snowdrops
What would Jeff Gillman do? Roundup and my garden
March 18th, 2008 · 22 Comments
When I was first approached about having Jeff Gillman, author of The Truth About Organic Gardening, write a post for my blog, I several ideas that I presented to Jeff. He was willing tackle all of them! I decided to relate how I have used Roundup in my garden, and let Jeff comment on my […]
Categories: Miscellaneous
Snowdrops: When Does a Bud Become a Bloom?
March 16th, 2008 · 24 Comments
You tell me: do I have blooms for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day?
These snowdrops are the furtherest along of all that I have. They have “dropped”; that is, their buds are no longer pointing up, but have been released from their sheaths and are hanging from their pedicels.
Now these…
Categories: Snowdrops
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