Seven years ago today, I wrote my first blog post: My Goals for Cold Climate Gardening
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Is Your Comment Missing?
June 11, 2009 – Posted in: About this site, Garden TweetsJust 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.
Scavenger Hunt Winners
April 13, 2009 – Posted in: About this siteA 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 [...]
Scavenger Hunt with Prizes
April 6, 2009 – Posted in: About this siteI'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 [...]
New Design for Cold Climate Gardening
April 6, 2009 – Posted in: About this siteWelcome 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 [...]
My blogging code of ethics
February 10, 2009 – Posted in: About this site, Blogging Art and PracticeI'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 [...]
Welcome, Syracuse readers
February 9, 2009 – Posted in: About this siteToday 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 [...]
A trip to Cold Climate Gardening
October 4, 2008 – Posted in: About this siteThe traveling bride of Slaterville Springs recently made a trip to Cold Climate Gardening (aka Purdyville) and reports on all she saw.
Quiz and Prizes! Celebrating six years of garden blogging
September 5, 2008 – Posted in: About this siteYes, 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 [...]
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2008
June 15, 2008 – Posted in: About this site, Colchicums, Recommended LinksPoppies, 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 [...]
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