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Horticulture Magazine Lists Their Twenty Favorite Garden Blogs

November 18, 2009

I was named as one of Horticulture’s favorite garden blogs–many thanks!

Mini Guest Post

November 4, 2009

I am cited as a “winter survival pro” at Seasonal Wisdom. Check it out, and add your own tips in the comments. I know a lot of my readers are winter survival pros.

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Seven Years Blogging

August 27, 2009

Seven years ago today, I wrote my first blog post: My Goals for Cold Climate Gardening

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Just found 6 valid comments in my spam catcher. My apologies! If you ever write a comment and it doesn’t show up, please alert me via email or contact form. Sometimes my spam catcher is a little too zealous.

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Scavenger Hunt Winners

April 13, 2009

A big thank you to everyone who took the time to enter the Scavenger Hunt, which I organized to help celebrate the new design here at Cold Climate Gardening. I hope you all had fun as you hunted for the clues. The prizewinners have all been notified by email, so I’ll give the rest of [...]

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Scavenger Hunt with Prizes

April 6, 2009

I’ve always had the suspicion that most of my readers don’t realize how much else I offer on this website in addition to this blog, so I thought I’d celebrate the “grand re-opening” of Cold Climate Gardening with a scavenger hunt that will encourage you to explore my website more thoroughly.
Prizes, We Have Prizes
And you [...]

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New Design for Cold Climate Gardening

April 6, 2009

Welcome to the newly designed Cold Climate Gardening. I’ve spent a couple of months working behind the scenes, to give you a better-looking and better-functioning website. I’m hoping it will be easier to find the information you need and to continue conversations in the online gardening community.
I’ve created this new design using Thesis, a theme [...]

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My blogging code of ethics

February 10, 2009

I’ve been following with interest the debate that Pam at Digging started and which Mr. BrownThumb responded to. When I first started blogging back in 2002, you were lucky to find business people who knew what blogging was, and the idea that they would find enough value in your blogging about their product to give [...]

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Welcome, Syracuse readers

February 9, 2009

Today my blog was profiled on Gina Chen’s Family Life Blog, based in Syracuse, NY.

The Syracuse area played an important part in my growing up, where I made my first attempts at gardening at our home in Manlius. I bet the winter aconites I planted still bloom by the front steps and the daffodils I [...]

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A trip to Cold Climate Gardening

October 4, 2008

The traveling bride of Slaterville Springs recently made a trip to Cold Climate Gardening (aka Purdyville) and reports on all she saw.

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Quiz and Prizes! Celebrating six years of garden blogging

September 5, 2008

Yes, I’ve been blogging here for six years, and this is my 800th post! I thought this year I’d throw you a challenge. I’ve got four plants that I bet you can’t identify. I’m going to let you have fun trying, but I want to keep it interesting. The two prizes below will be awarded [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2008

June 15, 2008

Poppies, peonies, and iris: the three Grandes Dames of June
In a cold climate, the gardening season is shorter and more compressed. By the time the spring flowers get going, boom! it’s summer. Consider this: on May 29th we had our last frost. The next day it hit 80F (27C), which we reckon to be summery, [...]

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Yes, I know it doesn’t look right

May 18, 2008

I just upgraded my version of WordPress. Because I had code in my theme (design) that would no longer work with the new version of WordPress, I needed to edit the theme before I could upgrade the software. I figured while I was at it, I’d expand the width by adding another sidebar, since just [...]

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