Garden Blog Directory
A blog (short for web log) is a kind of online journal. There are lots of different kinds of blogs on the internet, and garden blogs are just a small fraction of the blogs out there. To me, they are the equivalent of a virtual garden club, only instead of members from your local area, you get to compare notes with gardeners from all over the United States, and, if you know the language, even other parts of the world.
These are some of the gardening blogs I know about that are being regularly updated, though the frequency of updates varies greatly from blog to blog, and even from month to month in the same blog. Furthermore, many of the authors write about other topics as well as gardening, though gardening is a prominent theme.
Why you need a feed reader
I am happy to report that there are now so many gardening blogs that it is impossible to check each one individually every day to see if new content has been published. That’s why smart garden blog addicts use a feed reader to check for updates.
Simply put, a feed is a special file that encapsulizes the content on the page, making it easily portable to other locations. RSS and Atom are the two most common feed types. A feed reader processes the feeds so that they are readable by humans. There are a lot of feed readers out there. I have found Bloglines to be both simple and convenient. I have long advocated using a feed reader (which is what Bloglines is) to keep up with the many gardening blogs that are out there now, but I always felt I lacked a very easy, non-intimidating way to help people get started. This tutorial is it. It has plenty of screenshots and clear directions, and the absolute minimum techno-babble.
If that’s too complicated for you, watch this video. Okay, if that’s still too complicated for you, Garden Voices, a website started by iVillage, has done all the work for you. Every day they offer excerpts from garden blogs and other websites, leaving you the choice of which to click on to read more.
Eventually, you will want to know how to read feeds without driving yourself mad, including the secret to lightning-fast feed reading.
The “Random Reads” section in the sidebar of the home page displays ten feeds chosen at random from this directory. In addition, each blog listed here has a link to its syndication (RSS) feed provided, so if you just want to subscribe to one particular blog, you can. And let me emphasize that these are only the gardening blogs that I know about that I’ve had time to enter into the directory. Sheila Lennon maintains a list called More garden blogs than you have time to read, and her title says it all. And then there’s Moosey’s. Moosey’s Gardening News Desk is the biggest collection of garden-related syndication feeds anywhere on the web, encompassing far more than just weblogs. If you are looking to find more garden blogs or get more exposure for your own garden blog, you’ve got to see both these two places, and contact Garden Voices as well. But save Moosey’s for when you’ve got a chunk of time. Gardening news desk aside, it’s one of the biggest and best gardening webites on the Internet.
More recently, Stuart Robinson has created a map-based garden blog directory, and Susan Harris has started a list, as well.
If you have a garden blog, please let me know. But I have to say this: I only list personal gardening blogs. No canned content reprinted from somewhere else, and no blog that’s nothing more than a compendium of auto-collected links. However, a blog written in a personal style by a gardening business will be considered, and more likely than not, added.
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Alabama
- Dirt Therapy
• Gardening in northwest Alabama •
Author: Phillip Oliver • Location: Florence, Alabama • "I have lived in Alabama my entire life and I have been gardening for the past twenty years on 3/4 acres."
- Rurality
Tell me I haven't been walking around like that all day
Author: Karen Location: Alabama, USA"Living in rural north central Alabama. Currently overstocked with pets and poultry. Having lived in several small towns and larger cities, country life is taking some getting used to."
- The ToadShed
Just another Blog, with some gardening and birdwatching to go.
Author: Machelle • Location: Athens, AL • "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran Welcome to my garden, I have lived in Limestone county for most of my life. I come from a long line of Gardeners and in the last ten years it has become my passion. It calms me, and delights my soul with each seedling I see springing forth from the earth. I have learned a lot and have a lot to learn."
Alaska
- Anchorage Garden
growing vegetables, fruit and flowers in Zone 3
Author: Gail Heineman Location: Anchorage, Alaska "Besides a new blog, I have a longstanding web site with years of observations from my Anchorage, Alaska garden (http://gail_heineman.tripod.com/garden_1998.html) I don't post every day, but rather wait until I have something useful to report - I anticipate once every week or two." - Dirt Divas Gardening
Gardening in the far north can be fun and funky
Author: Sally Koppenberg, Dirt Diva one - Brooke Heppinstall, Dirt Diva two Location: Palmer, Alaska "Sally and Brooke currently write the Dirt Diva garden column for the Frontiersman, a local newspaper. Their zone 2-3 nurseries are located on a sunny mountainside outside Palmer, Alaska. Sally's nursery, Stonehill Gardens, specializes in native plants and hardy trees, shrubs, and perennials. Brooke's nursery and art studio, WoolWood Studio & Gardens, specializes in hardy herbaceous perennials, garden art, and birdhouses."
- Hunt's Alaska Homestead-Garden
An Alaskan Garden Journal
Author: Tamara Hunt Location: Anchorage, Alaska (Zone 2-3)A homeschooling, homesteading mother
- Last Frontier Garden
An Alaska gardener's perspective
Author: Christine B. • Location: Anchorage, AK • "I'm on a cold climate gardening adventure. Sense of humor required."
- solstice light
Alaska : forest, mountains, gardens and eating
Author: Katie Eberhart Location: Palmer, Alaska
- Stonehill Gardens
Nursery & Nature Conservatory in Palmer, Alaska
Author: Sally Koppeneberg Location: Palmer, Alaska "I would like this site to be educational, fun and interesting. If it isn't, please let me know. Stick around and you'll get to see lots of gardening photos, design ideas, pictures of dogs, rock work, stones, plants and food. These are all my favorite things and we are involved in all of them here at Stonehill. I am a garden designer, nurserywomen, grower, chef and writer. My name is Sally Koppenebrg. I work with my husband, Jay Erickson, son, Richard Mueller, niece, Nadia Koppenberg, various dogs and many other family members."
- Talk Dirt To Me
• You know, as I finally learned, it's all about the dirt. •
Author: Fran Durner • Location: Alaska • "Do you love to make mud pies, grow a houseplant, eat veggies, or stop to smell the bouquet on your co-workers desk? Everyone enjoys a bit of green growing around him or her and then there are those that are passionate and needy when it comes to dabbling in the dirt. With this blog, we'll try to satisfy those needs and tell you about what's going on with the Anchorage gardening scene. You know, as I finally learned, it's all about the dirt."
- The Alaska Novice Garden
Gardening in Alaska by a Newbie
Author: Faith • Location: Willow, AK • "A garden blog for new gardeners in AK"
- TundraGarden
This is about the ongoing saga of the Tundra Garden, which is the northernmost garden on the North American continent.
Author: Anne Brygger Location: Barrow, AK
- WoolWood Studio & Gardens
WoolWood Studio & Gardens is located on Lazy Mountain in the heart of the Chugach Mountains just outside Palmer,Alaska.
Author: Brooke Heppinstall Location: Palmer, Alaska"The nursery specializes in Alaska Grown hardy zones 2-4 unusual perennials. Twig trellises, fine hand-crafted birdhouses, and sculpture tumble out of the art studio and into the landscape."
Alberta
- Alberta Home Gardening
The Documented Experiments of an Alberta Gardener
Author: Dave Trenholm • Location: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada • "I wanted to make this blog a site full of great hints, tips, and how-tos that will help you in your own quest for a beautiful space. I’ve experimented with greenhouses, mulching, square-foot gardening, landscaping, unique and exotic vegetables, all varieties of fruit, raised beds, hydroponics, and a whole lot of other stuff. This blog will be my journal of my experiments and hopefully there will be some useful information that you can use in your own garden."
- Balcony Gardener
A view from above
Author: Kim Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada "Eleven floors up, the wrap around balcony (south and east side of the building) gets lots of sun and is protected from gusty winds and hail storms. Views from the balcony as the garden grows. The garden journal is pictorial and includes alpines, perennials and annuals. I am using my garden as the foundation for planting recommendations and gardening resources for apartment and condo dwellers. Am an experienced gardener who tended a large perennial garden and award winning rose garden pror to moving into a condo." A very classy web design, I might add. - Calgary Gardening Adventures
A beginner gardener shares via blog his trials and triumphs, and hopes to learn something about life along the way.
Author: Middle Earth Gardener • Location: Calgary, Alberta • "A beginner gardener shares via blog his trials and triumphs, and hopes to learn something about life along the way. And maybe find something edible in his own backyard. Focus of garden (most to least) is vegetables, fruit and native plants. The garden is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada at an elevation of about 1080m above sea level. It is on the slope between the Nose Creek valley and Nose Hill, within the Nose Creek watershed. It is just east of the ecosystem/climate transition from prairie to foothills (plant hardiness Zones 3a & 2b respectively), on the prairie side (Zone 3a). Hence the name "Middle Earth Garden". Gardening climates can vary significantly in different areas of Calgary, the west end is 200m+ higher elevation than here! We tend to get less frost and precipitation than the west end. To make up for the latter we have two 200L rain barrels plus two ~100L plastic bins to store water for the dryer summer months.
- Life in Cowtown
Because SOMEBODY has to live here.
Author: Coldprairie • Location: Calgary, AB • "Having spent most of my life with zero interest in gardening, I got bit by the bug last winter while flipping through a gardening book. The photos were so great that I was seduced into a serious attempt at growing food (and taking care of the yard). Having no mentor, I relied on the magic of google, blogs and two stellar books to show me the way. Check out my great adventure!"
- Sherwood's Forests
• The almanac (that is, blog) of Sherwood's Forests company •
Author: Sherwood Botsford • Location: Central Alberta • "My Almanac is a place where I irregularly put notes and pictures of my life as a tree farmer in Central Alberta. It's not all trees. This month it's full of taxes, and winter storms, and inch tall dahlias growing from seed, and outside, the occasional hint of winter's passing." - The Far North Garden
Gardening and edible landscaping in cold climates.
Author: Cassandra • Location: Edmonton, Alberta • "My garden is in Edmonton, Alberta. This blog provides information about gardening, especially food growing, in cold climates and short seasons."
Arizona
- Garden Djinn
Hogglebog is a zone 5 garden located in southeast Michigan
Author: Jenn Location: southeast MIThis blog has been around longer than mine, which is saying something. Jenn doesn't post entries as frequently as she once did, but I often learn something when she writes about her garden.
- Plant Tips and Guidelines for the Desert Garden
Adventures in Gardening in the Desert
Author: Noelle Johnson • Location: Phoenix, AZ • "I absolutely love plants! I work as a plant & landscape consultant (garden coach), and I am passionate about educating people about the beautiful plants that can be grown in the Desert Southwest. There are so many beautiful plants that thrive in the desert climate. Many of typical gardening rules are different, but it is not difficult to grow a beautiful garden. I have learned a lot from my successes and failures in the garden. I enjoy sharing my knowledge & experience. I have a B.S. in Plant Biology with a concentration in Urban Horticulture and I am a ISA Certified Arborist. I have consulted, managed and designed landscapes in the Desert Southwest for over 14 years."
Arkansas
- Garden for Life
Because life is better in the garden.
Author: Laney • Location: Fayetteville, AR • "A forty-something wife, mother, and librarian reflects on gardening as a way of life."
- RebekahsGarden
- The Well-Read Gardener
• Gardening and such •
Author: Johnice • Location: Berryville, AR • "I've discovered that I have plenty to write about, but my interest in garden blogging is limited by the seasons. It doesn't have to be, but I really find the period of time between pick out out what seeds you want to buy and end of harvest to be the most interesting time in the garden. I decided that I love this blog too much to make it second fiddle for part of the year. So the plan is now to keep this as The Well-Read Gardener, but change the tag line to 'Gardening and such.' "
Australia
- A Growing Delight
The idle comments of a passionate Australian gardener, whose 'Growing Delight' is sharing the everyday bits'n'pieces with other lovers of gardening.
Author: Alice • Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia • "I am 62 years of age and have been gardening since I was 7 years old. My husband and I are both retired and passionately keen on gardening, particularly propagating plants. Richard likes to grow them from seed - trees, shrubs, flowers, vegetables; and I like to propagate by cutting and division. So, between us I think we've got the spectrum pretty well covered. Only problem is that whilst we love growing all this stuff, we never know what to do with it apart from give it away to relatives and friends. But even that can be hard at times - it's a bit like parting with a member of the family!"
- Balcony Flowers
Sit back, relax, have a laugh at my silly gardening boo-boos
Author: Sue Zann Toh • Location: Australia • "Although I don't have a 'garden' in the traditional sense, I have a balcony where I lovingly grow flowers in containers and pots."
- Burnbrae Journal
Digging and delving in the garden
Author: Joan Elizabeth • Location: Lawson, New South Wales, Australia • "Photographs and reflections of a novice gardener in a beautiful old garden."
- Cactus Island Nursery
Exotic plant information for Australian Gardeners
Author: Australia's Online Nursery • Location: Queensland, Australia • "Have you ever thought about owning your own online mail order nursery? Funny really, I never did, until I was already up to my neck into it.... Like many other plant people out there, I started out on eBay, selling some left over plants from my cacti & succulent collection. As I sold more and more, I started to: 1. wear myself out due to the fact that I was trying to work both a full time job, and a full time nursery, and 2. run out of cacti & succulents! My name is El, I'm the owner of Cactus Island Nursery, together with my husband Dan. Our nursery is fairly small (a two-person operation), and we focus on growing plants that no one else grows. (here's where the problem starts!) People ask me what it's like to run an online nursery, and well, I would describe it as a 'juggle'.... Juggling time around computers, plants, family, admin.... It's a juggle in the best form of juggle though, I absolutely love what I do. Hopefully this will give you some insight into my world, the world of running an online and mail order nursery."
- Frog Garden
Retired and taking time to smell the roses (and Hoyas)
Author: Roy • Location: Brisbane, Queensland, AU • "I'm married with two children, arrived in melbourne in 1966, lived in brisbane since 1979, now retired and taking time to smell the roses (and Hoyas)"
- Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas
Author: Stuart and Debbie Robinson • Location: Busselton, WA, Australia • "My wife Debbie and I have been landscaping and gardening our small suburban block in Western Australia for about 2 1/2 years now and our blog is about this and what we have learnt over time. Cheers."
- GardenMessenger
This blog reviews the latest products, plants and innovations in gardening. It also provides a link for my many gardening friends who are members of the GardenMessenger and Seedmessenger Yahoo groups and their sub-groups that I moderate.
Author: Phillip Swindells • Location: Australia • "After some forty years working in horticulture all over the world I believe that I have a lot of useful information to pass on to fellow gardeners. . . . The main function of the blog will be to reflect and inform about what is going on in the horticultural world. I am in a great position to keep an eye on what is happening as I spend part of my life each year in Europe and part in Australia, so I see things from both the right way up and upside down."
- Jess's Garden
This blog is about me trying to create a home and family.
Author: Sally • Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia • "Well the question is why have I given in and started a Blog. I am learning to garden and I've tried keep a journal, I've tried a photo journal. These worked well, but now I'm trying this. 18 months ago DH, myself and my mother brought a 4 bedroom house with a granny flat (better known as the Dawdy house). My mum is a keen gardener and has slowly been trying to convert me, though I had begun before she started. The last few years in our old house I was going tomatoes in pots. After 12 months of gardening I'm now fully engaged and beginning to plan a whole house/garden outline. Over the next few posts I'll show and explain what I have done in the last few months and then I'll beginning showing where to now. "
- My Growing Passion
Devoted to my delight in horticulture, indigenous plants of Australia, botany, native animals, ecology and conservation
Author: Margaret Morgan • Location: Sydney, Australia • "My blog is quite personal, and mainly focuses on what I'm doing in the garden of a house we've recently bought. It adjoins a national park, which is one of the main reasons we bought it. Wallabies and lizards and frogs and an array of birds that would just gobsmack you. So fecund! I am besotted by Australian plants, fauna and ecosystems. I am a qualified horticulturist and am currently studying for a BSc in Biodiversity and Conservation."
- Sub Rosa Gardens
Secret Gardens in Australia and around the world
Author: Karly Winkler • Location: Canberra, Australia • " Sub Rosa Gardens gardening blog is all about looking inside our secret gardens - how to create one, what you need and secrets to make it easier! Follow one young gardener's journey to create her own private oasis, grow her own food and live in harmony with the environment."
- The Distracted Gardener
The ramblings of a young father who enjoys gardening, but doesnt really know what he is doing. In short, the Maxwell Smart of the gardening world.
Author: Simon • Location: Perth, Australia • "My experiences starting a garden, in pots, from scratch, with very little experience. You get to find out what happens to my plants, what works for me, what doesn't, and hopefully, why."
- The Rebel Gardener
Gardening Tough, Drought Tolerant Plants
Author: Michael Bowater • Location: Melbourne, Australia • "The Rebel Gardener is a gardening blog that features drought tolerant plants for the home garden and public landscaping. It is designed to provide information for gardeners and introduce to gardeners many garden worthy plants that under used in gardens."
Barbados
- My Rustic Bajan Garden
tropical plants in the Caribbean
Author: Helen • Location: St. Lucy Barbados • "A rustic garden located in the north of Barbados growing water lilies, tropical fruit, flowering trees and shrubs. I have been gardening frantically for the past 13 years on just over 2 acres. I live in an old stone house that dates back to the 1800's or more with my hubby, daughter, 5 dogs and a cat. I love to cook for company and try out new recipes on my guests. This is tropical living at its best."
British Columbia
- Flowers and Weeds
Of interest to gardeners in the Pacific Northwest, including gardening tips and advice, garden recipes, and garden-inspired art.
Author: Garden Lily Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, CA"Please visit me in my garden, among the flowers and weeds, as I carve out a little patch of heaven in this rainy Pacific Northwest. I hope to share with you some of the joys, the triumphs, the techniques I learn along the way, and maybe some favourite garden recipes and art projects, too."
- Garden Freak
Author: crazygramma Location: British Columbia, Canada
- Garden Therapy
Healing through gardens, food and art
Author: Stevie • Location: Vancouver, British Columbia • "The adventures of an artistic gardener aiming to feed the body & soul through an urban potager garden & a community veggie plot in Vancouver."
- Gardening Adventures from the North...
A very northern gardener
Author: Breanne • Location: Northern British Columbia • "My blog attempts to keep track of my successes and failures at cultivating a garden in Northern Canada (zone 3ish). We recently bought our first house and are beginning to transform our yard into our personal paradise."
- Gardening Tips
Musings from a Passionate Gardener
Author: Miss Canthus Location: Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada Another cold climate gardener
- Heavy Petal
Gardening: from a West Coast, urban, organic perspective
Author: Andrea Bellamy Location:Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaLots of links to intriguing sites, many of which you wouldn't normally think of as gardening sites.
- Miss Eats :)
Chronicles of a novice urban gardener growing food in her own Vancouver back yard.
Author: Miss Eats • Location: Vancouver, BC • "I'm just a girl with a patch of dirt in my back yard that I decided to throw seeds into. This little blog space is the chronicling of my food gardening adventures. Each week, I'll be updating the progress of my vegetable patch straight from my urban back yard. The trials and tribulations will be many, so if you're like me, a complete novice to growing food for yourself, you'll have a friend here digging dirt, just like you! Unconventional, assuredly comical, stories from a young gardener and her back hoe."
- Muddy Boot Dreams
Gardening and photography, with flowers and Bootsie the neighbours cat. A city girl waiting to be transplanted to the country.
Author: Jen • Location: White Rock, British Columbia • "Gardening and photography, with flowers and Bootsie the neighbour's cat. A city girl waiting to be transplanted to the country."
- My garden
Author: Sandy Location:West Coast, Canada Excellent photos, but no longer being updated
- Northern Gardeners Almanac
What's happening in northern gardens
Author: Melanie Watts • Location: northern British Columbia • "I'm Melanie Watts. For twenty years I've been practising organic gardening in Northern British Columbia, Canada. As a Master Gardener I decided to start this site, for novice and seasoned gardeners to share advice, increase knowledge and get information about gardening."
- Sabines Garden
A light-hearted look at my backyard gardening adventures in Zone 3, British Columbia, Canada
Author: Sabine Leppanen Location: British Columbia, Canada
- UBC Botanical Garden Weblog
California
- A Gardener's Notebook with Douglas E. Welch
Join me in my garden!
Author: Doug Welch • Location: Los Angeles, CA • California living and gardening.
- A Tramp in the (Organic) Garden
Seeds, Smack Talk and Assorted Gardening Madness in Highland Park, Los Angeles
Author: Loretta Allison-Wieland • Location: Los Angeles, CA • "We rent a space in Highland Park- we don't own, which makes gardening a little more of a challenge. When we started- the entire backyard, a space of about 25' x 40' was only dirt except for a mulberry tree in the corner and a huge Canary Island pine. I had a million ideas, but didn't like the idea of landscaping the property completely with perennials with out leaving an area to plant vegetables, other edibles and annuals. Eventually we decided to go with the most mundane of layouts- plant a lawn in the middle to accommodate that little badminton habit, create raised beds along the sides for rotating seasonal plantings, and plant other perennials along the other sides. And why should I spent $1000 on plants when I can propagate my own? I opted to rely on cuttings and other propagated plants to fill the garden. So that's been a little bit of the running theme of the garden. Buy only the basics and propagate the rest. Friends are only too willing to give you cuttings, and succulent swiped here or there- well who's to know?"
- Albert's Greenhouse
Author: Albert Huntington • Location: Sunnyvale, CA •
- Bay Area Tendrils
Garden Travel
Author: Alice Joyce • Location: Northern California • "A garden travel blog by INSIDERS' Guide author/photographer, Alice Joyce, 'Bay Area Tendrils' reveals and revels in historical gardens, Modernist landscapes, and hidden sanctuary spaces in the U.S., Canada and Europe. When not cultivating her own little patch in Northern California, this avid gardener is touring or blogging about great garden destinations; with musings on rare plants, the greening of urban settings, and the realm of gardening."
- Cindy's Blog
A vegetarian state worker blogs about gardening (Sunset zone 14), knitting, rabbits, cats, whatever
Author: Cindy • Location: Davis, CA • "I do mention other things, but my blog is mostly about gardening."
- Daffodil Planter
Gardening With A Sense Of Humor
Author: Daffodil Planter • Location: Nevada City, CA • "Two minutes of entertainment for anyone with a garden, served up several times a week. I'll make you laugh about Compulsive Gardeners, garden fads and traumas, the ongoing saga of the White House vegetable garden, and garden critters of all kinds. I live in a Gold Rush town (Zone 7B) in the Sierra Nevada foothills, with winter snows, summer droughts, and mule deer. Special interests in my own garden are daffodils, drought-tolerant perennials, and self-sufficiency. And I'm still trying to get my gardening clothes to look as good as Dianne Benson's. Lean over the back fence and let's talk about it all!"
- Dirt
Organic gardening, essays, articles, and rants by writer Amy Stewart
Author: Amy Stewart • Location: Eureka, CA • Amy Stewart is a garden writer living in northern California. She wrote The Earth Moved and From the Ground Up. Her newest book is the New York Times bestselling Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers.
- DryStoneGarden
Plants and Stone for Green Gardens
Author: BuenoLuna Landscape Designs • Location: San Francisco Bay Area • "DryStoneGarden is a blog project of BuenoLuna Landscape Designs, a small landscape design/build located in the San Francisco Bay Area ( USDA Zone 9b and Sunset Zones 14-17 ). We design and install custom gardens combining dry stack stonework and low-water plants. We are interested in plants, stone, home gardening, landscaping, green building, and sustainability. Our aim with this blog is to gather as much useful information as possible about those topics."
- Far Out Flora's Blog
Author: Matti and Megan • Location: San Francisco, CA • "We live in San Francisco near Ocean Beach and Golden Gate Park. Plants are awesome. We like to do interesting things with them. Succulents, bromeliads, carnivores and other unusual plants are our favorites. Our dog Max is cute and makes us check out beaches all over the coast."
- Food. Feed. Fed.
A city girl tries to grow organic veggies in the Bay area.
Author: Jess • Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California • "Food. Feed. Fed. recounts the bumbling adventures of a city girl trying to grow an organic vegetable garden in the San Francisco Bay Area."
- Garden Rant
Uprooting the gardening world
Authors: Susan Harris, Michele Owens, Amy Stewart • Locations: (roughly) Washington, D.C., upstate NY, California • "We think that gardeners everywhere deserve better than the drivel they are handed by the mainstream media, and maybe we should stop complaining about those awful gardening magazines and TV shows and offer an alternative. Gardening: a serious subject for serious writers. Also, an amusing subject for amusing writers. Hear that, you bores at Fine Gardening?"
- Gardening Gone Wild
Authors: Fran Sorin, Nan Ondra, Saxon Holt, Steve Silk • Locations: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, California, Connecticut respectively • "Those of us who have chosen to become contributors are individuals who have the desire to express our thoughts, ideas, and philosophies about gardening and the world in which we live."
- GardenPunks
GardenPunks is the story of a Northern California family doing as much as it can to live organically, thoughtfully, and with regard to the environmental impact of its activities.
Author: Katie and Chris • Location: Folsom, CA • "I started this blog back in 2006 because I felt like the only 20-something that was remotely interested in gardening. From there, this blog grew into more than just dirt and plants, namely our efforts to leave a lighter foot-print on this earth, mixed with our commitment to cut our consumption and energy use, with a few recipes and failures mixed in. This blog was supposed to be a journal of sorts for us - but it has turned into more than that. The people I have met virtually and personally through this blog have changed my life (cliche, yes) and outlook on people in general. To all of our readers - thank you for keeping up with our adventures, and as always, we promise more to come. -Katie"
- Growing A Garden In Davis
This perception of work as pleasurable is one basic reason why some of us are gardeners and some are not
Author: Leslie aka Fioriecanto • Location: Davis, CA • "Finding a quiet place to live... where I can learn more about myself, the world, and people around me through my passions...gardening, reading, learning and now...grandmothering!"
- Growing the Garden
A blog about gardening, focusing on urban gardening
Author: Sudeep • Location: Redwood City, California • "This is a blog about gardening, with a focus on urban/suburban and community gardening. Have you ever tasted a fresh, ripe tomato that you grew yourself? Fresh vegetables and fruits can fill our bellies, while the beauty of flowers and shrubs can fill the soul. Towns tend to be ugly and unproductive, with grass lawns sucking up valuable water resources giving nothing back but a high utility bill. Imagine a new urban landscape with front yards bursting with succulent tomatoes, and apples falling from the trees. Imagine acres of grass wastelands turned into productive, attractive fruit and vegetable gardens. Imagine little community gardens tucked into nooks and crannies, roofs and backyards. Imagine little walkways constructed over busy roads so that gardeners with wheel barrows have safe access to freeway cloverleaf interiors and road intersection medians. That is the world I want to live in, and this blog is to help get to that goal - one garden at a time."
- in a garden
a gardeners photoblog
Author: Sandy Saunders • Location: West Coast, CA • "I am a passionate gardener and do photography for a hobby. Most pictures on this site are made either digitally or with old SLR and TLR cameras."
- Johnnye Merle's Gardens
Johnnye Merle's Gardens: 'cause our grandma is cooler than yours! We're the most unique nursery and garden designers you're going to find in all of Orange County!
Author: Johnnye Merle Gardens • Location: Orange County, CA • "Johnnye Merle's Gardens: 'cause our grandma is cooler than yours! We're the most unique nursery and garden designers you're going to find in all of Orange County! We're located in the gardens of Country Roads Antiques, in Old Town Orange. This blog features updates about our garden, design ideas, and random tidbits about plants, gardening, family and, well, life..."
- k2tog
Country Living
Author: Culley Harrelson • Location: northern California • "In May 2005 we purchased a house on 5 acres in the foothills of northern California. This blog started out as a gardening record. It has since morphed into a general "country living" blog. In general, I am trying to follow the sustainable, bio-intensive farming methods described in How to Grow More Vegetables. Lots of traditional rototiller type growing is happening for the larger non-vegetable areas. k2tog stands for "knit 2 together" and is a technique for decreasing the number of stitches in a row. As a domain name it is nice and short, and I like the connotations."
- Lost in the Landscape
Musings of an artist loosed in a garden
Author: James Soe Nyun • Location: San Diego, California • "Subtitled, "musings of an artist loosed in a garden," this blog looks at the intersections of gardens, landscape, art, photography, and nature. I live in San Diego, California where gardening is a year-round opportunity. When I'm not playing in the garden or working at the computer or doing the day job thing I try to squeeze in doing art. Most of it's photo-based work or outright photography. In what I do I spend a lot of time looking at and thinking about the landscape and our place in it."
- MoZone
Buckle your seat belts. Be prepared to diversify. You're entering the Mo Zone.
Author: Maureen Gilmer • Location: California • "I will primarily share with you what it's like to literally live the green way, where every day your entire point of view begins with the plant kingdom. You'll learn why I am in love with the barren peaks above the timberline in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with its crystalline lakes and stunted firs. We might even ponder the nature of of our Creator's invisible worlds of life science."
- My Back 40 (Feet)
Author: Chuck B • Location: Bernal Heights, CA • His old blog was whoreticolture, but he now writes on this blog.
- My North Coast Gardening Blog
Gardening on the north coast in coastal Humboldt county, Eureka, California. Join me as I grow my garden in the beautiful setting of an historic Victorian home.
Author: North Coast Gardener • Location: Eureka, California • "I moved to the north coast in February 2007, an early retirement sorts, along with continuing to work from home. My Eureka home is an historic Victorian with a beautiful garden. This blog is a diary of my gardening time in my north coast garden. Join me as I grow my garden in the beautiful setting of an historic Victorian home."
- North Coast Gardening
Helping you create and maintain the garden of your dreams... in the Pacific Northwest.
Author: Genevieve • Location: Arcata, California • "I'm a professional landscaper and my passion is helping others have fun learning to garden. I'm having a blast sharing photos and video of the seasonal tasks that make up my days doing maintenance, and the plants and gardening books that are inspiring me in design. Stop on by and tell me how your garden's growing!"
- One Green Generation
We are preserving our planet with our lifestyles.
Author: Melinda • Location: Northern Sonoma County, California • "For three years Matt and I lived in a tiny Los Angeles apartment next to the biggest superhighway in the country. Finally the daily grind of freeway construction outside our window, my asthma rapidly getting worse, and a completely unsustainable lifestyle drove us out of town. A twist of events led us to northern Sonoma County, CA, where we rent a house on 1/2 acre, adjacent to a vineyard, outside of a small town of 1,600 people. AND WE'RE INCREDIBLY HAPPY! Here we're embarking on an adventure toward sustainability, starting with growing our own food. It's an endeavor that many will face in the coming years as our climate changes and energy costs rise. So we hope to make it a little easier (and more fun!) by recording our crazy journey now. We welcome your thoughts as we share our mistakes, our hours of empirical and book research, and our few successes...."
- Path to Freedom Journal
Pioneering a Journey Towards Self-Sufficiency . . . One Step at a Time
Author: Dervaes family • Location: Pasadena, CA • "Since the mid-80's members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked away at transforming their ordinary city block in Pasadena, California into an integral urban homestead. Their yard has over 350 varieties of edible and useful plants. The homestead's productive 1/10 acre organic garden now grows over 6,000 pounds (3 tons) of organic produce annually, providing fresh vegetables and fruit for the family's vegetarian diet along with a viable income. In addition they have chickens, ducks, brew their own biodiesel (made from vegetable oil) to fuel their car, compost with worms, solar panels provide their electricity needs, a solar oven is used to cook food in, over the summer they built a cob oven."
- Puttering In The Garden
A Blog About Gardening in a San Francisco Bay Area Yard
Author: Steve • Location: San Francisco (Bay area), California • "I’m Steve, the author of Puttering in the Garden. When I was about 10 years old, my parents turned an old sandbox in the backyard into a vegetable garden. For years after that, taking care of that garden was my favorite summertime activity. I also looked forward to harvesting apricots, peaches, plums, apples, pears, and cherries from our small backyard fruit orchard every year. Gardening has been my favorite hobby ever since. After years of living in apartments and being limited to growing plants in pots, I moved into my own house in 2002. Ever since, I have been enjoying spending my weekends transforming the yard into my idea of an ideal garden. I’m a lawyer, and I find that gardening is a great way to relax and relieve stress. I consider myself a gardening enthusiast, although I do not have any formal education in horticulture. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area in USDA zone 9, Sunset zone 15."
- Real Food & Scandalous Gardening Secrets
Here you will find thoughts, tips, book reviews, gossip, and scandalous secrets related to gardening, cooking, health, nutrition, politics and what ever else crosses my mind . . . Watch out!
Author: Harvest McCampbell • Location: Hoopa, Humboldt County, CA • "I have been gardening for over 30 years, and have an herb book in print with gardening tips for each herb listed. "
- RoseDude
Author: Leon • Location: Los Angeles, CA •
- Scenic Nursery | Gardening Blog
- Seedhead
Plant intelligence
Author: Degen Pener • Location: Culver City, CA • "Seedhead is a news site that blends information from around the world about what's happening with plants and plant people. It covers landscape design, botanic gardens and nature reserves to visit, new plants, new books, endangered plants, ecological restoration, horticultural know-how, nurseries and more. The goal of Seedhead is to provide up-to-the-minute reports on the full breadth and depth of the world of plants."
- Shirley Bovshow's Edenmaker's Blog
Eden-making is the art of bringing Paradise to your home
Author: Shirley Bovshow • Location: Los Angeles, CA • "Musings on gardens, outdoor living, nature-inspired travel, food from the ground, and family life." Shirley Bovshow is an in-demand landscape designer in Los Angeles and the designer/co-host of the television show, “Garden Police” airing on the Discovery Home Channel.
- SoCal Gardening - The Art of Gardening in Southern California
Author: Richard Wright • Location: California •
- Southern California Nurseries
Find a nursery near you
Author: Susan Hirsch • Location: Pacific Palisades, CA • "I have a permanent database/directory of all the nurseries (56) in the Greater Los Angeles area to encourage the patronage of local nurseries. In addition,I post twice a week on gardening and garden travel."
- The Blogging Nurseryman - The Golden Gecko Garden Center Blog
A northern California nurseryman talks about the business of running a small garden center, competing in a hyper-competitive market, and anything else that crosses his mind.
Author: Trey Pitsenberger • Location: Garden Valley, CA • "A garden center professional for over 27 years, my first nursery job was driving the delivery truck at 'Christensen Nursery' in Belmont, just south of San Francisco . Our last garden center venture was 'The Happy Frog', in Auburn. We now have 'The Golden Gecko Garden Center', in Garden Valley. Our customers garden from the lower foothills to Lake Tahoe. I am an Advanced California Certified Nurseryperson, Master Nursery Professional, garden writer, and speaker."
- The Gardeners Anonymous Blog
Author: Chigiy • Location: Los Gatos, California (Santa Cruz mountains) • "My name is Chigiy. (Pronounced cha-GEE). I’m a wife, mother of two young boys. I’m also a mosaic artist, writer, surfer, runner, martial artist, skiier, Yogini, and extremely avid gardener. I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains, on the outskirts of the town of Los Gatos, California, the town in which I grew up. I started the Gardener’s Anonymous blog at the urging of my friends and family, to share and swap stories. And to learn to make friends with my computer. I learned my passion for dirt from my mom. She inspired me throughout my life to be brave, to always look on the bright side, to do whatever a boy could do, to always have a sense of humor, and to never, never lose my ability to laugh at myself."
- The Gardens of Petersonville
Daily life in two organic gardens in Southern California
Author: Sheila • Location: Laguna Beach, CA • "We have two homes in southern California, both on acre lots that I have spent the past 15 years turning into organic gardens."
- The Hammarskjold Garden Blog
Growing Green at Stanford
Author: Tayler Cox • Location: Stanford, CA • "Stanford has long been known as "the farm", but only recently have students started to reconnect with this historical heritage. Under the blanket of the Campus Garden Initiative and with some money from the Campus Green Fund, three new pilot gardens were started in 2008-2009. The Hammarskjold Garden Blog recounts some of the challenges and joys of Stanford students starting their own garden at the international c-op on campus."
- The Scented Garden
A small hillside garden filled with fragrant flowers
Author: Barbara • Location: Belmont, CA • "This blog is about my small hillside garden and the flowers and plants that make up the unique fragrances of the garden. I do a lot of research on the plants and like to include that in my blog."
- The Vegetarian Accountant's Garden
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~~Winston Churchill
Authors: Betty and Rudy • Location: California •
- theGardenPages So Cal Garden Blog
Photos and info on growing California natives, succulents and dry weather plants. Plus organic garden tips, news, planting tricks, lore and wallpapers for your desktop.
Author: Laura Z • Location: Los Angeles, California • "Ramblings of an everyday starving artist, freelance writer and gardener in Los Angeles, USA. I write about native plants, drought in the garden, succulents and cacti and other low water plants, plus a little about organic gardening methods I use."
- True Dirt
a gardener talks
Author: Briggs Nisbet • Location: Oakland, CA •
- UC Botanical Garden
- whoreticulture
Author: Chuck B • Location: Bernal Heights, San Francisco, CA • The author now writes on a new blog, My Back 40 (Feet), but the old one has lots of nice photos on it which makes it worth a look, in addition.
- Wild Suburbia
This blog will include notes on gardening with native plants in my southern California yard. New attempts and the resulting successes and failures will be posted.
Author: Barbara Eisenstein • Location: South Pasadena, California • " My Southern California garden has been transitioning from a mature, traditional lawn-dominated yard to a native plant habitat garden. I have been converting sections of my yard for the past ten years, reducing lawn area by at least 50%. Not only do I save water, keep almost all green "waste" (in no way is this actually waste) on site, and shun fertilizers and pesticides, but I enjoy the birds, lizards, bees, and hummingbirds with whom I share this space. Right now my garden is getting ready to burst into bloom with California native wildflowers. On April 4th my garden will be on the Theodore Payne Foundation spring garden tour for the second time."
Caribbean
- A Caribbean Garden
Author: Nicole • Location: Caribbean • "I'm an "island girl" born and living in the Caribbean. I love to travel, garden, love art and music and of course the beach. I also enjoy cooking, especially with my own grown herbs and farmers market produce."
- My Rustic Bajan Garden
tropical plants in the Caribbean
Author: Helen • Location: St. Lucy Barbados • "A rustic garden located in the north of Barbados growing water lilies, tropical fruit, flowering trees and shrubs. I have been gardening frantically for the past 13 years on just over 2 acres. I live in an old stone house that dates back to the 1800's or more with my hubby, daughter, 5 dogs and a cat. I love to cook for company and try out new recipes on my guests. This is tropical living at its best."
Chicago Spring Fling 2009
- Art of Gardening
Garden travel, ideas, inspiration and great Buffalo gardens by the well-traveled president of Garden Walk Buffalo, one of the largest garden tours in the country.
Author: Jim Charlier • Location: Buffalo, NY • "I'm no great gardener. I'm no great writer either. I'm not even a good photographer. But I like gardens, I like design, I like to travel and like to share. So here's some gardens I've visited, and when I can, I'll show how I've incorporated what I've seen in my garden. A picture is worth a thousand words, so, if you don't mind, I'll have more photos and fewer words. If you're looking for Latin names, plant lists and hardiness zones, this is not the site for you. If you're looking for inspiration, ideas, and to see gardens you may never have seen, or would like to visit, this site is for you. To see what I do when I'm not doing what I do, visit JimCharlier.com."
- Bumblebee Blog
Busy living the good life
Author: Robin • Location: Huntingtown, MD • "I’d like to say that every day is a non-stop thrill here on Bumblebee Blog, with a knee-slapping incident to recount. In fact, it’s curious how my idea of fun has changed over the years. Maybe you’ll agree that some of what I see and observe is at least mildly interesting! And no, my name isn’t really Bumblebee."
- Chicago Botanic Garden--Top-Rated Plants
I know, Chicago isn't in zone 4 or colder, so technically it's out of the provenance of this website. But I'm willing to make exceptions for really good stuff. They evaluate a whole bunch of one kind of plant, like yarrows, or bee balms, and see which cultivars are the best, not just in terms of looks, but disease resistance and winter hardiness as well. - Clay and Limestone
Gardening in the Central Basin in Middle Tennessee
Author: Gail • Location: Middle Tennessee • "Welcome to my garden in Middle Tennessee, zone 7ish! I have lived on this property for over 20 years. Recently the yard and I negotiated a truce. I added some much needed hardscape and reworked some borders, adding more natives and native friendly exotics that will grow and thrive in clay and limestone."
- Cobrahead Blog
The best tool in earth
Author: The Valdes family • Location: Cambridge, WI • "CobraHead LLC is a small family-run company that produces hand tools for gardeners and small-scale growers. We promote home gardening, grow-your-own food projects, and the idea that growing good food properly is important to the well-being of humanity and the planet. In our blog we would like to share gardening ideas, talk about what we do with food from the garden and what we are doing to promote CobraHead and good gardening."
- Dig, Grow, Compost, Blog
Tracking the cycle of my gardening life
Author: Jean • Location: North Louisiana • "I've been gardening for 30+ years, the last 4+ years in north Louisiana. My current garden is 3 years old and it's a journey of discovery for me. I am a garden coach, master gardener, and work seasonally at a nursery. Please visit my website: www.thenaturalgardencoach.com."
- Digging
It all starts with a patch of dirt
Author: Pam Penick • Location: Austin, TX • "I’ve been digging in Austin since 1994. For eight years I cultivated a colorful, sun-loving, Texas-style cottage garden in the black gumbo (clay) of midtown. Much of this blog chronicles the evolution of that garden. In the fall of 2008, however, I said goodbye to it and moved to the limestone hills of northwest Austin, where I’m starting a new, deer-resistant garden under the dappled shade of live oaks on shallow, rocky soil. New challenges provide renewed excitement and fresh perspectives about gardening."
- Dragonfly Corner
This is a journal of my life as it pertains to family, friends, gardening, and life in general.
Author: Beckie • Location: Central (the prairie lands) Illinois • "I am a grandma of 7 beautiful girls, and a wife of 41 years to a wonderful husband. I enjoy flowers and plants, nature, reading, cooking, crafting, and of course spending time with family and friends!"
- Each Little World
EACH LITTLE WORLD that collides with mine
Author: Linda Brazill • Location: Madison, WI • "Each Little World burst into being in August 2008 to focus on my perennial passion for homes and gardens. The world of interiors and exteriors; bibliophiles; china and dishing; Domino theory; feasts and fests; food; flowers and gardens; material possessions and textile obsessions; worldly goods and bads."
- Faire Garden
• Gardening on a slope in a small town in Tennessee USA •
Author: Frances Garrison • Location: Southeast Tennessee • "My present garden is in southeast Tennessee. We have been here about seven years, but have owned the property nearly ten.[....]Three years later we moved into the house ourselves and did a renovation which included buying the house next door, knocking it down and building a garage there. Now it is attached to the main house, one big happy dwelling. The additional land from the house next door really allowed me to garden my little heart out. The whole backyard is a steep slope so lots of paths and steps were needed just to get up to the edge of the property line. Much work has been done and more is still needed. As with all gardens it is never finished and will forever be a work in progress. This will be its story."
- Flatbush Gardener
Adventures in Neo-Victorian, Wild, Shade, Organic and Native Plant Gardening, Garden Design, and Garden Restoration.
Author: Xris (Flatbush Gardener) • Location: Flatbush, NY • "I moved to New York City, to the East Village, in 1979. I started city gardening soon thereafter. I moved to Brooklyn in 1992. I now make my home and garden in Flatbush, Brooklyn (USDA Hardiness Zone 7a/6b, AHS Heat Zone 5)."
- From My Corner of Katy
Author: Cindy • Location: Houston, TX • "Welcome to my corner of Katy, a Texas cottage garden in far west Houston, where I grow a wealth of native and adapted plants to welcome birds, bees and butterflies to my suburban corner lot. I've been gardening on this large corner lot for just over 10 years now. As the garden has grown, so has the Head Gardener: I've gained not only knowledge and experience, but friends and compatriots who love gardens and gardening as much as I do."
- Garden Faerie's Musings
A little blog about gardens, gardening, visiting gardens, and the little joys of everyday life.
Author: Monica Milla • Location: Ann Arbor, MI • "Monica is a gardener, writer, and speaker who enjoys getting people excited about many aspects of gardening. Her "pet" topics include gardening for cats and winter seed sowing."
- Garden Girl
Author: garden girl • Location: Chicago, IL • "Growing up in a farming, gardening family, I was bitten by the bug early and have been gardening since I was a little girl. Thanks to an 18-year stint in corporate America, I've learned a lot about business management. In 2007, I decided to combine my passion for plants and gardening with my business and entrepreneurial background to grow a garden consulting, coaching, and maintenance business of my own. I love what I do even more than I imagined, and still find time for my own ornamental and kitchen gardens, volunteering as a University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener, and sharing my gardening passion through my blog."
- Gardening While Intoxicated
Author: Elizabeth Licata Location: Buffalo, NY
- GardenPunks
GardenPunks is the story of a Northern California family doing as much as it can to live organically, thoughtfully, and with regard to the environmental impact of its activities.
Author: Katie and Chris • Location: Folsom, CA • "I started this blog back in 2006 because I felt like the only 20-something that was remotely interested in gardening. From there, this blog grew into more than just dirt and plants, namely our efforts to leave a lighter foot-print on this earth, mixed with our commitment to cut our consumption and energy use, with a few recipes and failures mixed in. This blog was supposed to be a journal of sorts for us - but it has turned into more than that. The people I have met virtually and personally through this blog have changed my life (cliche, yes) and outlook on people in general. To all of our readers - thank you for keeping up with our adventures, and as always, we promise more to come. -Katie"
- Greenbow
This is a journal of my gardening and other nature happenings at Greenbow as well as other places I visit. I hope you enjoy gardening, birds and nature as I see them.
Author: Lisa • Location: SW Indiana • "I like to garden, write, photograph, paint and talk about nature."
- Growing A Garden In Davis
This perception of work as pleasurable is one basic reason why some of us are gardeners and some are not
Author: Leslie aka Fioriecanto • Location: Davis, CA • "Finding a quiet place to live... where I can learn more about myself, the world, and people around me through my passions...gardening, reading, learning and now...grandmothering!"
- Growing in Chicago
Thoughts from a veteran garden writer and avid gardener on how-to, why and what's next
Author: Beth Botts • Location: Chicago, IL • "After more than 20 years on staff at the Chicago Tribune, where my garden stories won bronze, silver and gold awards from the Garden Writers Association, I'm on my own in the great green world. Raised on the South Side by an organic gardener and environmentalist, I now garden in a leafy suburb on the edge of Chicago--in the deep shade on the north side of a four-story building, in the sunny strip by the garbage cans, in pots on the third-floor porch and on the windowsills in the winter."
- Idaho Gardener
All about gardening in Idaho and the Rocky Mountains
Author: Mary Ann • Location: Boise, ID • "A clearinghouse for gardening info in my area. I try to keep it lean and clean."
- May Dreams Gardens
This is May Dreams Gardens because all year I dream of the days in May when the sun is warm, the skies are blue, the grass is green, and the garden is all new again!
Author: Carol Location: Zone 5, Indiana"We should all strive to sow, grow, and sustain good things in life's garden. I hope you enjoy these brief writings in this garden blog about my gardens, gardening adventures and occasional garden opinions, and are inspired to get out and do a little digging and hoeing in your own gardens, wherever and whatever they may be."
- Mr Brown Thumb
Author: MrBrownThumb • Location: Chicago, Illinois •
- Mr. McGregor's Daughter
Garden musings from the land beyond O'Hare
Author: Barbara Location: Chicago, IL "A life-long resident of Northern Illinois, I have been gardening for almost 20 years. My current garden, Squirrelhaven, is 14 years old. My Zone is 5a."
- My Skinny Garden
My attempt to beautify my boring backyard. Landscape design and growing suggestions appreciated.
Author: Gina • Location: Forest Park, IL • "I'm a novice gardener, do it herself-er, toolbelt diva wannabe. My blog is mostly about my gardening and DIY conundrums but every now and then I grow something really pretty or build something very cool."
- Nancy's Garden Spot
When life gives you manure, learn to make compost
Author: Nancy • Location: Cypress, Texas • "Gardening without regard to dignity. I'm a disabled gardener learning to do things differently. It gets frustrating sometimes, but it is rewarding always."
- Oh Grow Up!
A Garden Journal
Author: Patsy Bell Hobson • Location: Missouri •
- On the Shores of Lake Chicago
Gardening in Oak Park, IL, in the clay mud of prehistoric Lake Chicago
Author: On the Shores of Lake Chicago • Location: Oak Park, Illinois • "I am in Oak Park, Illinois, USA (zone 5b) with a semi-native, semi-organic garden and pond."
- Our Little Acre
Beautifying Our Little Acre, one flower at a time. Okay, maybe two...
Author: Kylee Location: Northwest Ohio "This blog shares the adventures of a rural Ohio gardener (me) and my camera that seems to be stuck in macro mode much of the time. I tell what I know and what I'm learning about plants, flowers, butterflies, insects, and birds, and because my life only consists of 95% gardening, the rest of me is thrown in from time to time."
- Outside Clyde
Living the life of gardening in the low spot on a North Carolina mountaintop.
Author: Christopher C • Location: North Carolina •
- Prairie Rose's Garden
Notes from a beginning gardener with sprinkles of poetry and philosophic musings
Author: Rose • Location: Central Illinois • "I am a "late bloomer" when it comes to gardening. Born and raised on a farm, I have returned to my country roots. Recently retired, I am looking forward to being able to do all the things I always wanted to do but never had enough time. That includes gardening, of course!"
- Ramble On Rose
Ramblings about prairie plants, conservation, and the trials of a clay-filled garden
Author: Rose Rankin • Location: northwest of Chicago, IL • "I'm a freelance writer working and gardening northwest of Chicago. I specialize in native Midwestern plants but I don't necessarily discriminate against exotics."
- Red Dirt Ramblings
Firmly rooted in the Oklahoma soil
Author: Dee Nash • Location: Oklahoma • "I'm an obsessive gardener who attempts to grow over 90 rose bushes (at least that was the last count) along with daylilies and other heat-loving perennials. When I started gardening over twenty years ago, I began with three rose bushes: 'Double Delight,' 'Tiffany' and 'Queen Elizabeth' that I bought at the local discount store. Two were Hybrid Teas, and the other a Grandiflora. I built a small raised bed for them and lavished them with food and chemicals. They were beautiful, and I was hooked. I don't like to spray anymore, so I now grow mostly disease resistant roses and drought resistant plants to make my job easier. I discovered a garden plan with geometric shapes like triangles and diamonds. It looked very French, and I wanted mine to look just like it. HH built it and it is the center of the over one acre I now tend."
- Sharing Nature's Garden
Connecting to the earth, to our wildlife friends, and to my fellow gardeners
Author: Diana • Location: Austin, TX • "Perhaps the only thing greater than the satisfaction of nurturing a seed to a seedling to a blooming or producing plant is the joy of sharing nature's bounty with others. Whether I'm peddling garden tomatoes we can't possibly eat or sharing stories about why the verbena isn't doing well, my garden connects me. It connects me to the earth, to our wildlife friends, to fellow gardeners, and, to myself."
- Sharing Nature's Garden
Connecting to the earth, to our wildlife friends, and to my fellow gardeners
Author: Diana • Location: Austin, TX • "I'm glad you've found my garden journal. Perhaps the only thing greater than the satisfaction of nurturing a seed to a seedling to a blooming or producing plant is the joy of sharing nature's bounty with others. Whether I'm peddling garden tomatoes we can't possibly eat or sharing stories about why the verbena isn't doing well, my garden connects me. It connects me to the earth, to our wildlife friends, to fellow gardeners, and, to myself. So, welcome. I hope you'll feel connected here. "
- Sustainable Gardening Blog
A blog by Susan Harris, one of the authors of Garden Rant, the popular gardening blog
Author: Susan Harris • Location: Takoma Park, MD • "I'm a gardening coach, GardenRant blogger, Master Gardener, garden writer, and activist for urban and suburban greening. On this website I combine my own articles with some terrific ones written by top horticulturists and garden writers from around the country."
- Sweet Home and Garden Chicago
An artist and garden designer dishes the dirt on Chicago gardening.
Author: Carolyn Location: Chicago, IL "I didn't like gardening growing up on the farm because it was my job to tend the vegetable garden, which those of you who do this know that it is very labor intensive. And, after the vegetables are harvested, guess what ? They have to be preserved for winter which means canning up to a hundred jars of each vegetable. But little by little, the old green thumb that I left back in 'bama came back. As my children grew and I had more time on my hands I began in earnest to create a front and back garden. This is in the reach of everyone who wants to do it. One doesn't have to be a landscape designer to create a beautiful garden, all it takes is the desire, a little sweat equity , a modest budget, the ability to read and ask for help from professionals.
- The Casual Gardener
Gardening and Greening Tips brought to you weekly by "The Casual Gardener"
Author: Shawna Coronado • Location: Warrenville, IL • "Shawna Lee Coronado is an author, locally syndicated newspaper columnist, health, and greening expert focused on teaching and living a green lifestyle."
- The Dig-It-Yourself Garden
Applying a do-it-yourself philosophy to our Chicago garden
Author: J-Dog • Location: Chicago, IL • "My garden philosophy is: keep it simple and (hopefully) cheap. Why pay $40 for a tomato cage when I can make 20 of my own out of one $35 bail of fencing. I'm not that handy; I don't like power tools. But, with a little creativity, I try to get the most out of my small urban garden. Hopefully you'll find something here that sparks your interest or gives you an idea for your own garden. Thanks for reading!" This author used to write on Snappy Garden Blog.
Cold Climate Blogs
- 33 Barefoot Lane
Freshly Handmade or Grown On Our Family Farm
Author: Cheryl • Location: Minnesota • "I'm Cheryl, a farm wife and homemaker, mother and grandmother, and a Master Gardener. Family, farming, gardening, cooking, crafting, agates, and coffee – these are a few of my favorite things! We live, work, and play together on our organic family farm in Minnesota's heartland; we specialize in pasture raised pork, organic grains, hand made soaps and lotions, and fresh cut flowers from our cutting gardens. My philosophy about new ideas, ventures, and business is: "Wouldn’t it be fun?". Somehow I always forget about the work involved, even after all these years when I should know better."
- A Garden in the House
Houseplant How-To, Decoration and Green Living
Author: Kevin Lee Jacobs • Location: Kinderhook, NY • "Kevin Lee Jacobs, a frequent contributor to African Violet Magazine and Berkshire Homestyle Magazine, writes a daily blog that details his adventures with indoor gardening. Kevin shares his own cultural tips and tricks, and shows how an indoor garden can provide beautiful, living decoration to the home, even as snow blankets the world outside."
- A Healthy Gardener
Eat, Garden and be Healthy
Author: Gloria Bonde • Location: Hot Springs, SD • "I have gardened for over 25 years. I am a member of the local county extension master gardeners. I garden organically, and like to grow food and eat food in season. Last summer, I made a sourdough bread started from captured "wild yeast" from my grapes and am enjoying the uniqueness of truly eating local bread. I love flowering low growing ground covers as a substitute for lawns and have been experimenting with them for years. And I love vines. I have a seven foot arbor that surrounds the back yard and in the summer is enveloped with vines.The scent of the garden in the morning feels like vacation. Summer is one long vacation for me."
- A Little St. Paul Garden
How we are learning about urban farming and gardening
Author: Kelli • Location: St. Paul, MN • "Since moving into my new house with my new husband and slowly taking over the yard, I find myself captivated with all kinds of organic gardening ideas, especially for growing food in limited urban spaces. This is about exploration and projects in the garden."
- A Prairie Journal In Saskatchewan
Thoughts and information on garden growing on the Canadian Prairies
Author: Clayton • Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan •
- A Way to Garden
Horticultural How-to (and woo-woo)
Author: Margaret Roach • Location: Copake Falls, NY • "A longtime garden editor and writer (New York Newsday newspaper, Martha Stewart Living magazine, books) who took a career detour and is now returning in the form of a blog. I recently retired (at a very young age, thank you) to my 2.3-acre garden in a Zone 5B area of New York State, which was the subject of my book "A Way to Garden." The garden is open for tours as part of the national Open Days visiting scheme of the Garden Conservancy."
- Adirondack Chapter - North American Rock Garden Society
The Adirondack Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society serves members in Central New York, including the Ithaca, Syracuse and Binghamton areas.
- Alberta Home Gardening
The Documented Experiments of an Alberta Gardener
Author: Dave Trenholm • Location: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada • "I wanted to make this blog a site full of great hints, tips, and how-tos that will help you in your own quest for a beautiful space. I’ve experimented with greenhouses, mulching, square-foot gardening, landscaping, unique and exotic vegetables, all varieties of fruit, raised beds, hydroponics, and a whole lot of other stuff. This blog will be my journal of my experiments and hopefully there will be some useful information that you can use in your own garden."
- Anchorage Garden
growing vegetables, fruit and flowers in Zone 3
Author: Gail Heineman Location: Anchorage, Alaska "Besides a new blog, I have a longstanding web site with years of observations from my Anchorage, Alaska garden (http://gail_heineman.tripod.com/garden_1998.html) I don't post every day, but rather wait until I have something useful to report - I anticipate once every week or two." - Ask FarmerPhoebe
Playing in the dirt is my passion!
Author: Phoebe • Location: Menomonie, Wisconsin • "Recently transplanted from Chicago's zone 5b to Menomonie, WI USA, zone 4 I've been gardening organically most of my life. My Wordpress blog was created in part to promote my free weekly organic gardening teleclasses http://www.askfarmerphoebe.com but also to connect with other gardeners, to share tips, and to promote organic gardening as a sustainable, hassle-free alternative to adding chemicals to the air and soil that are harmful to people, animals and the environment."
- Balcony Gardener
A view from above
Author: Kim Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada "Eleven floors up, the wrap around balcony (south and east side of the building) gets lots of sun and is protected from gusty winds and hail storms. Views from the balcony as the garden grows. The garden journal is pictorial and includes alpines, perennials and annuals. I am using my garden as the foundation for planting recommendations and gardening resources for apartment and condo dwellers. Am an experienced gardener who tended a large perennial garden and award winning rose garden pror to moving into a condo." A very classy web design, I might add. - Beside the Stream
Country life at 7,ooo feet
Author: Alice Outwater • Location: southwest Colorado • "I am writing a blog because of a four-day stretch this fall when a bear kept breaking into my 94-year-old neighbor’s Honey House. First Bob nailed some 2×4s across the door, and the bear tore them down. More wood and bigger bolts came next, and that was history. The handyman wired the door with an electric shock system powered by a car battery, and the bear took that out too. By the time the door was barricaded heavily enough to deter the bear, the Honey House looked like a cartoon version of a shack under seige. On the grand scale of things bear problems aren’t very important, but our little adventures with nature and neighbors highlight a side of life that is getting too little attention. In these times of global change and conflict, this website is dedicated to small happenings, and to the creatures among us who don’t wear clothes."
- Bev's Colorado Garden
. . . gardening at the foot of Pikes Peak
Author: Bev • Location: Colorado Springs (Zone 5a), CO • "I live on a corner lot in the suburbs with 1350 sq. ft. of "parking" or "hellstrips," as they are called. Experiencing a drought in 2002, we decided to convert the strips to waterwise (Xeriscape) landscaping. While I have other gardens, they are my pride and joy. Gardening in Colorado can be either delightful or challenging, and that changes hour-by-hour. We are in a semi-arid climate, with lots of sunny days, desiccating winds, damaging hail, torrential downpours, and extreme temperature changes."
- Bloomin' Blogger
Gardening in the Adirondacks
Author: Bloomin' Blogger • Location: Fulton County, NY • "We reside in Fulton County in the southern part of the Adirondack Park. I tend to limit myself to zone 4 plants, but have a few things that are zone 5 that do well. We were limited to shade plants until 1998 when we had a big wind storm and lost a lot of our trees. It was sad, but the upside was the new things I could grow. "
- Blunders with shoots, blossoms 'n roots
Gardening by trowel and error!
Author: Tessa • Location: Redmond (formerly Portland), OR • "This is my personal gardening blog of all my (mis)adventures or 'blunders' and successes in the garden."
- Bookish Gardener
Occasional to frequent meanderings on gardening books and other culture, heavily leavened with non-sequiturs
Author: Chan • Location: Madison, WI • In the interest of full disclosure I should tell you that I have become good friends with the author of this blog. She writes about more than just gardening, and, to my regret, she doesn't write as often as she used to, but I am thankful that with her time constraints she hasn't quit altogether. You will find browsing the archives quite rewarding, as Chan has the ability to make unexpected but totally correct connections between ideas. Oh, yeah, she also grows beautiful flowers.
- Calgary Gardening Adventures
A beginner gardener shares via blog his trials and triumphs, and hopes to learn something about life along the way.
Author: Middle Earth Gardener • Location: Calgary, Alberta • "A beginner gardener shares via blog his trials and triumphs, and hopes to learn something about life along the way. And maybe find something edible in his own backyard. Focus of garden (most to least) is vegetables, fruit and native plants. The garden is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada at an elevation of about 1080m above sea level. It is on the slope between the Nose Creek valley and Nose Hill, within the Nose Creek watershed. It is just east of the ecosystem/climate transition from prairie to foothills (plant hardiness Zones 3a & 2b respectively), on the prairie side (Zone 3a). Hence the name "Middle Earth Garden". Gardening climates can vary significantly in different areas of Calgary, the west end is 200m+ higher elevation than here! We tend to get less frost and precipitation than the west end. To make up for the latter we have two 200L rain barrels plus two ~100L plastic bins to store water for the dryer summer months.
- Cobrahead Blog
The best tool in earth
Author: The Valdes family • Location: Cambridge, WI • "CobraHead LLC is a small family-run company that produces hand tools for gardeners and small-scale growers. We promote home gardening, grow-your-own food projects, and the idea that growing good food properly is important to the well-being of humanity and the planet. In our blog we would like to share gardening ideas, talk about what we do with food from the garden and what we are doing to promote CobraHead and good gardening."
- Cold Climate Gardening
Hardy plants for hardy souls
Author: Kathy Purdy • Location: NY's Southern Tier • You are here. In addition to the blog and this directory, I provide pages of links to helpful sites and a selection of little-known essays for you to read. If you want to know more about this site, choose About this Site in the Category box. If you want to know more about the growing conditions of our contributors, click Contributors in the sidebar.
- Colors Of The Garden
Snips of this and that about gardening and daily living in the country
Author: Kerri • Location: upstate NY • "Our farm is in Upstate NY and we milked cows until 2000. Now My husband and I both work off the farm, and it's different! I spend as much time as possible outside gardening in the summer because I grew up in Australia where summers were long and hot and I want to soak up all the warmth I can! Our summers here in NY are way too short! I inherited the gardening bug from my mum. Thanks Mum!"
- Crazy Aunt Ter's Life And Times
Homesteading and Knitting in Northern Michigan
Author: Ter • Location: Northern Michigan • "I'm a computer geek by day, but nights and weekends will find me madly digging in the dirt, playing with my critters, wrapping string around sticks and riding my bike!"
- dig this chick
the dirt: seeds of insight gleaned from gardening in Montana and running with a sprightly dog
Author: "dig this chick" • Location: Missoula, MT • "A blog about growing with my garden and cultivating love, humility and my own strength while on a run with my dog. Also befitting these organic roots and strides are cooking and baking, contemporary art, design and fashion."
- dlyn
It's a tough job being me but someone has to do it
Author: Dlyn • Location: northern Tioga County, NY • Personal blog concerning gardening, photography, recipes, humor - Down My Garden Path
A day-to-day account about the goings on in my gardens
Author: Claire Siconolfi • Location: Clifton Park, NY • "Many things are new to me at the moment, so I am discovering a whole new world. My most recent discovery is the pleasures of Gardening. Join me as I help you explore my successes and failures in full technicolor."
- Dung Hoe
Sometimes it snows more than it grows
Author: Rosey Pollen • Location: Front Range Mountains, Colorado • "Dung Hoe chronicles my attempts to grow a high altitude mountain garden, despite weather and wildlife. Everyday I step outside into my garden, I learn something new. Much enthusiasm is required to face these trials head on, but I manage with some humor and a tongue in cheek attitude."
- Dust Bath
Chickens, crafts and canning. (Gardening too, but that didn't rhyme.)
Author: Catalina • Location: Minnesota • "The adventures of an optimistic vegetarian in a pessimistic world. I intensively garden a small city lot using square foot gardening methods."
- Each Little World
EACH LITTLE WORLD that collides with mine
Author: Linda Brazill • Location: Madison, WI • "Each Little World burst into being in August 2008 to focus on my perennial passion for homes and gardens. The world of interiors and exteriors; bibliophiles; china and dishing; Domino theory; feasts and fests; food; flowers and gardens; material possessions and textile obsessions; worldly goods and bads."
- Edible Blue Honeysuckle
The new dream crop for Prairie Berry and Fruit Growers
Author: Clayton • Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan •
- Ellis Hollow
Gardening, politics, and more
Author: Craig Cramer Location: Ithaca, NY "I live in a unique setting. On one side is a busy road and a quick hop into a very cosmopolitan (if somewhat small) city. On the other side is a large wetland and a ridge that's just spectacular in fall when the colors change. Every morning when I walk out the back door, I feel like I'm on vacation. On a good day, I say that I'm a naturalistic gardener inspired by the genius of Piet Oudolf. Most of the time, though, I describe myself as a sloppy gardener who just loves to grow stuff. I often employ the "pot and shovel" design method: I wonder around with a pot in one hand and a shovel in the other hoping I can find a spot for the plant in the pot. My blog is mostly about gardening with some music, art and politics mixed in."
- Energies of Creation
Exploring creativity in art, gardening, and energy healing.
Author: Lexi Sundell • Location: Montana • "I am an artist, gallery owner, gardener, and energy worker. These writings explore my adventures combining these aspects of my creative energies. I garden extensively in the difficult Montana climate, creating massive explosions of poppies while filling a large hoophouse with tomatoes every summer. My gardens are an interactive collaboration with nature and provide most of the material for my paintings."
- Five Wells
Building my own Eden, one weed at a time.
Author: Mary Ann • Location: Freeville, NY • "My hippie self-sufficiency urges, which were pushed to a back burner when my kids were teenagers, have been reawakening. I'm raising some chickens, re-establishing beehives, planning part of the garden more for food than flowers."
- Four Green Acres
Life from scratch
Author: June, Birch, Blossom and Fern • Location: outside Portland, Maine • "We explore coming from the city and living in Maine, keeping chickens, homeschooling, cooking good food and trying to grow it, building a wood-fired pizza oven, wanting a goat but not wanting a goat enough (yet), reading wonderful books, stirring the compost, and taking time to smell the petunias."
- Garden Dreams (Trädgårdsdrömmar)
Gardening in Scandinavia
Author: Ken and Carina Schill • Location: Southwest Sweden • "About a garden around a house from year 1773. Created by a married couple who is crazy about gardening. It is a big garden with all kinds of different plants from bulbs, perennials, bushes and trees, all for a cold climate garden. We also translate our Swedish text in English."
- Garden Path: A Small Garden in Maine
a look at my garden and some of my other interests
Author: Sandy • Location: Southern Maine • "I have had a garden in since 1976. It has changed from a large vegetable patch, to an herb and perennial garden over the years. I like to try many different things, so each year my garden's shape changes a little."
- Garden Prattles
Garden Prattles In a Vermont Garden, A Gardening and Composting Blog
Author: Sarah • Location: Vermont • "Musings from a gardener, writer, artist, seamstress and mother of two who takes times from gardening and raising a family to share insights and experiences about gardening with others."
- Garden Scrapbooking
My passions are gardening and scrapbooking
Author: Bruce • Location: Adirondack Mountains, NY • "This blog will be about gardening, scrapbooking and the progress I make creating my garden scrapbook."
- gardening for beginners
To garden is to restore your senses.
Author: Poppy • Location: Melville, Saskatchewan • "This is a blog for beginning gardens who live in cold climates, and who have either limited space, patios, decks, or balconies, or limited garden space. I strive to give basic descriptions and basic instructions, as well as posting some definitions for the beginner."
- Gardening for Nature
Thoughts and images for bringing nature and wildlife into our gardens and lives
Author: Kathy Green • Location: Monument, CO • "Gardening for nature takes care of many problems for me, so I want to share my successes and failures here with you. My gardens are located along the Colorado Front Range, at an elevation of 7300'. We live on about .8 of an acre, with over 100 Ponderosa Pine and countless scrub oak trees. We get snow anytime up to mid June, so the growing season is rather short. But the sky is crystal blue, and the air is wonderfully clean. I have several gardens that are built to bring in wildlife and nature. We regularly have foxes, coyotes, birds, hawks, squirrel and deer, as well as the occasional black bear and mountain lion. The butterflies and hummingbirds are a constant sight in summertime, and the insect pests are few."
- Gardening in Syracuse
growing food - growing flowers - growing community
Author: Paul Harris • Location: Syracuse, NY • "The ultimate goal of this blog is to provide some sort of online reference point/discussion space/information source for any and all who garden within the sometimes harsh, but always beautiful landscape of Syracuse/Central New York. There are many fascinating ecological and botanical attributes to this part of the country, and there is so much that a gardener here can work with despite the perceived relentless winter. Winter is just another season...for gardening!"
- Gardening in Vermont - Perennials and Annuals
Meeting the Challenge of Short Seasons and 30 Below
Author: Amanda Legare • Location: Cabot, Vermont • "I have gardened for years and am fortunate to be able to pay my bills through horticulture, as owner of "Amanda's Greenhouses and Perennials" for 20 years. However, I am always learning, making mistakes and awed by the the successes. My blog shares my garden diaries, the good and the bad, along with what I hope are humorous commentaries on the business of growing. I share my experiences with zone 4 gardening. I do not do mail order."
- Gardening with Soule
a blog by Teresa Soule and Garden Shoes Online
Author: Author name • Location: blog location • "When the first robin arrives on the scene and the geese are heard flying north overhead, my heart leaps at the possibilities waiting out in my small corner of the Earth. So, as the gardening continues I hope to enlighten you at times and hope to be enlightened by you. Everyone gains their own experience at gardening and I am a whole hearted believer that there is so much to learn from every person that puts spade to dirt in hopes that they will truly reap what they sow. I try to give a lighthearted look at my garden and gardening in general while I also show you some of Garden Shoes Online's products that I have tried myself to let you know what I think first hand. A lot of photos and fun."
- Gardening, Alaskan Style
"Two experienced Alaskan gardeners share their ideas of gardening in Anchorage, Alaska. Explore the different parts of this Alaskan garden, or catch up on the latest garden news. You will find tips on growing English delphiniums, David Austin roses, hardy roses, hybrid verbascums, Oriental liles, Trumpet lilies, Orienpet lilies, Asiatic lilies, and Asiflorum lilies(LA hybrids), and many other flowers, especially including fragrant flowers." - GARDENVT
Vermont's gardening resource
Author: Brian McClintock • Location: Essex Jct., VT • "Gardening news from Vermont and surrounding regions."
- Green Mountain Gardener
Artistry in Nature, Plants, and Gardens
Author: Liisa • Location: Northern Vermont • "A garden addict in need of group therapy for those of us who spend way too much time thinking about, dreaming about, digging, transplanting, getting our hands dirty, learning, and admiring gardens or anything garden-related. I also have a fondness for rare and unusual plants, or anything unique to my area. Having recently moved to Vermont, I would love to share my experiences here in creating my zone 4 gardens, whether it be perennial, annual, or vegetable-related."
- Gwendolyn's Garden
Gardening in Southern Wisconsin
Author: Gwendolyn • Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA • "Gwendolyn's Garden is a site dedicated to gardening in southern Wisconsin– in temperamental USDA zone 5A. My gardening expertise comes only from experience, not from formal training, so I am happy to try to answer any questions on gardening that you have and will relate some of my favorite trials and tribulations with gardening."
- Had The Radish
A STROLL, A RAMBLE, A TRUDGE..gardening in Vermont..an old gardener looking for new tricks while moving from the purely floral to jabbing at sustainability via vegetables and fruits.
Author: Randi • Location: Vermont •
- Hagedagbok fra parsellen i Bergen
Author: Pinneguri • Location: Oslo, Norway • This blog has really nice photos, although it is written in Norwegian.
- High Altitude Gardener
Struggles, successes, failures, and "Whoo Hooooo" moments during three seasons of mountain gardening!
Author: Jayne O'Hara • Location: Colorado Mountains, Colorado • "Sharing my high altitude gardening and landscaping struggles, surprises, and successes . . .starting spring, 2006, continued 2007 & still ongoing, spring 2008. I'm a persevering gardenin' gal. Learned all I know about gardening in Texas but none of that stuff works up here in the Rocky Mountains. But, hey, whoever said "an old dog can't learn new tricks" should've been certified...as a non-gardener. 'Cause learning is growing and growing is learning; we're never too old to learn. And grow! Right?"
- Janet's Garden
A gardening blog that I hope will be informative and useful, not just a simple report of what I plant when.
Author: Janet • Location: Ontario, Canada • "My garden is in USDA Zone 4a and is contained in a tiny townhouse lot, which I am cramming as full as I can. I've taught ESL, forecast futures markets, homeschooled five children, been a pastor's wife in a pioneer church and am now contemplating what I will do with my life once the nest empties completely. In the meanwhile, I'm blogging."
- Jean's Garden
A Gardener's Reflections
Author: Jean Potuchek • Location: East Poland, ME • "Jean's Garden provides the reflections of an amateur gardener on her garden and her gardening experiences, including both triumphs and tribulations. Jean is a flower gardener who grows mostly perennials, and does most of her gardening in East Poland, Maine."
- Just your average Garden Variety
A brown thumb turns green, Setting up in a new yard. Barrie Ontario, Zone 5a, Sandy Soil, South Facing and sunny. Apparently I love a challenge
Author: Tracey F • Location: Ontario, Canada •
- Kelly's Green
gardens, books, yarn, laundry...
Author: Kelly • Location: New Hampshire • "Writer, gardener, knitter, mother of 3; recently transplanted from Virginia to New Hampshire. The balance between gardening and other topics (knitting, domestic life, and others) shifts, but it's all so intertwined anyway.... "
- Land of the Lost Surprise
a seasonal blog of Wisconsin
Author: Tam • Location: Central Wisconsin • "This is a playful blog involving small boys, a backyard, and bold adventures in planting and building. I invite fellow gardeners, especially Northern ones, to comment and give advice as we experiment with planting in the shade and creating garden tools out of old appliances."
- Last Frontier Garden
An Alaska gardener's perspective
Author: Christine B. • Location: Anchorage, AK • "I'm on a cold climate gardening adventure. Sense of humor required."
- Life in Cowtown
Because SOMEBODY has to live here.
Author: Coldprairie • Location: Calgary, AB • "Having spent most of my life with zero interest in gardening, I got bit by the bug last winter while flipping through a gardening book. The photos were so great that I was seduced into a serious attempt at growing food (and taking care of the yard). Having no mentor, I relied on the magic of google, blogs and two stellar books to show me the way. Check out my great adventure!"
- LivingSmall
Thoughts on literature, food, faith and the subversive power of living small
Author: Charlotte Freeman • Location: Livingston, Montana • "I'm a writer and editor currently residing in Livingston, Montana. I moved to Montana in 2002 in search of a small community where I could afford to buy a house. I found a house built in 1903, and I've been renovating as funds allow. I also managed to find a fabulous small town full of writers and painters, people who hunt and fish and garden, a place where I can be on a trail 20 minutes from town."
- Mamma Mia Days
Author: Donna • Location: Wisconsin (Zone 4) • "Like most people, my days are filled with both cheers and tears. Will share a little of both with you. There will be pictures of whatever catches my eye, especially anything with its roots in the dirt."
- millertime
Garden Freak
Author: Lisa • Location: NE Wisconsin • Great sense of humor and interested in all sorts of plants.
- Montana Wildlife Gardener
Montana Native Plants for Montana Native Wildlife
Author: David • Location: Missoula, Montana • "We created a wildlife garden at our home in a small city lot in the center of Missoula, Montana. Our garden uses plants native to the Missoula valley, and receives no irrigation. Our front yard is a wild Missoula prairie, with over 70 species of plants. Our backyard is a combination of rooms, more traditionally landscaped, but still using Missoula natives. The only thing we water in our yard are our vegetables. Our goal is to use native plants to create a small piece of habitat for wildlife while providing a comfortable and interesting yard for us to enjoy. We have attracted over 50 species of birds to our yard, and countless butterflies and other insects. Our household uses less than 50% of the water in an average Missoula home, but we still have a lush, unique and beautiful yard."
- Muddy Boot Dreams
Gardening and photography, with flowers and Bootsie the neighbours cat. A city girl waiting to be transplanted to the country.
Author: Jen • Location: White Rock, British Columbia • "Gardening and photography, with flowers and Bootsie the neighbour's cat. A city girl waiting to be transplanted to the country."
- My Northern Garden
Author: Mary • Location: Northfield, MN • "I'm a lucky gardener. I'm a freelance writer/editor and one of my jobs is editing Northern Gardener, the magazine of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. This blog is a way to share what I'm learning and trying with other northern gardeners. Like most gardeners, I don't know everything about plants or design (far from it!) and I've got other things to take care of besides a garden, like a job, a family, a dog, you get the picture. Still, nothing beats time spent in the garden, or thinking about it."
- My Sister's Garden
Two sisters gardening at the east end of Lake Ontario. Country Girl is in Zone 4, Apple is in Zone 5
Author: Apple and Country Girl • Location: near Pulaski, NY • Apple:The purpose of this blog is to have a place to journal the details of my garden. When I started seeds, bloom dates, the purchase of new plants etc. Country Girl:I didn't start gardening until we moved here. The couple that lived here for the 50 years before us loved to garden and left us some wonderful surprises!
- North Country Gardening
Simple Secrets to Successful Northern Gardening
Author: Neil Moran • Location: Northern MI • "My blog is geared toward gardeners in the northern tier states of the U.S. and up into Canada. I offer tips primarily on vegetable gardening but I also cross over into landscaping and some flower gardening. As a horticulturist I sometimes ramble on about issues in horticulture in general, such as the use of pesticides, or insects infestations in trees and other plants."
- North Country Maturing Gardener
The North Country Maturing Gardener gardens, lives and ages gracefully in Northern New Hampshire.
Author: North Country Maturing Gardener • Location: North Havervill, NH • "I have been a Master Gardener for the past 17 years or so, but now do most of my gardening on the Internet! I enjoy answering gardening questions and will do that here. I hope you will add comments as well as ask those questions. It's important that we have a dialogue about how gardening can help us all keep our world a good and healthy place!"
- Northern Gardeners Almanac
What's happening in northern gardens
Author: Melanie Watts • Location: northern British Columbia • "I'm Melanie Watts. For twenty years I've been practising organic gardening in Northern British Columbia, Canada. As a Master Gardener I decided to start this site, for novice and seasoned gardeners to share advice, increase knowledge and get information about gardening."
- Notes From Zone 4
Mack Hill Farming Journal
Author: Frank and Lisa Richards • Location: Marlow, NH • "We had the yard landscaped professionally. We weren't particularly happy with the landscaper that we chose, but it did give us some good bones to the landscape, and we really got into gardening after that, with such a pretty blank canvas to work on. I've always wanted an orchard, and a rose garden, a formal herb garden. It is so much work with all these wooded acres to have any of those things. We'd find the time to clear an area, but it all grew back up so quickly. Frank had gotten a tractor, but we have no way to de-stump the area, and the rocks and hills made it all very complex. There was no way to use the brushhog, for example." Consequently they got some Icelandic sheep to help keep the brush down. The garden had taken a back seat but they have plans to reclaim it this spring. Lots of great photos from past years.
- Obsessive Gardener
Born and raised in Wisconsin. Opinionated, but open-minded to intelligent arguments.
Author: Sylvana • Location: Wisconsin • Brand new (as of May 2005) and enthusiastic blogger. Lots of photos.
- Out of the blue
Gardening on a small farm north of Oslo
Author: Mari Anne Braekkan • Location: Eidsvoll, Norway • "I am living north of Oslo in USDA zone 5 (I think). My farm is 11 decares and the garden is as big as I want it to be. I love my greenhouse because it shortens our long winter. In my blog you can expect to find posts about germination, vegetables, garden constructions and even flowers. Furnishing and holidays you will have to look elsewhere for. This blog is a translation of my Norwegian blog, which I have been writing for a year. Old posts will be translated ...soon."
- Outside
What's going on in the yard, garden and beyond.
Author: Tracy • Location: Minneapolis, MN • "I'm a gardener from the frozen reaches of the Upper Midwest. My zone 4a garden includes vegetables, herbs, flowers and lots of native plants that were there when we got there. I'm also lucky enough to live on a fairly good-sized pond, so bird-watching is always good. However, with the good comes the bad. I'm in a constant battle with wildlife. We have a roaming herd of deer that destroys everything in it's path. We have "cute" little bunnies that love to mow down the greens in the garden. And of course, our friendly racoons live in a drain by the pond and drive Dexter, our overly protective mutt, to distraction."
- Penelopedia: Nature and Garden in Northfield, MN
Nature and Garden in Northfield, Minnesota
Author: Penelope • Location: Northfield, Minnesota • "Started in July 2007 with an emphasis on my tiny home garden and the local food movement, my blog has over time drifted to a greater emphasis on local nature notes, birdwatching and phenology, but it is seasonally also devoted to my small home vegetable garden, seed-starting and other gardening topics."
- Perennial Passion
Gardening, Quilting, Decorating, Crafting, Cooking, Tablescaping--just some of my quirky passions...
Author: Zoey • Location: Michigan • "I garden in lower northern Michigan (zone 4/5) in far less than ideal conditions. I have too many pine trees, too much shade, too many rocks, herds of hosta-munching deer and rabbits who think my lily buds are gourmet appetizers. I am by no means an expert in horticulture or garden design--just an amateur with a shovel and a passion. My garden changes daily during the summer and I will be updating frequently. During the winter months, I blog about my favorite cold-weather hobby--quilting and just my everyday musings. I hope you enjoy your visit, and that you will come back soon."
- Plants and Stones
The garden is my playground
Author: Becky • Location: Rockdale, NY • "I always wanted to keep a garden journal. This blog is as close as I will ever get. I do my blog for fun with dial up so I keep it short and simple." Gorgeous stone walls out in the country.
- Pleasant Pond Farm
Gardening, barn and farmhouse talk from Richmond, ME.
Author: Sandra • Location: Richmond, ME •
- Potter's Garden
A tale of a greenhouse from the sassy wife's perspective
Author: Melissa Potter • Location: Victor, ID • "Potter’s Garden sprung to life in November 2008 in Victor, Idaho after several years of hemming and hawing…uhm, I mean, planning, by creator, builder, greenthumb, glassblower and overall handy man – Jordan Potter. [...] As the little lady in his life, I strongly encouraged (nagged) him to go forth and build. Hope springs eternal, after all. We had to take out a second mortgage to do it as well as experience that “a-ha” moment fresh off of a retreat where all the fresh produce was grown at the retreat center before we did it. But we did it. [...] Now, as the seasons change, Potter’s Garden continues to morph into something we haven’t yet defined…but continue to search for."
- Rustling Leaves
gardening information and experiences and sometimes more
Author: Craig Levy • Location: Upstate NY • "My goal is to initiate a conversation and leave everyone with a broader understanding of the world surrounding us. Most of the postings will be about gardening and plants, living a rural life, and our place in relation to the land, plants, and animals that encompass us. But as with most people, I have many and varied interests that will be popping up from time to time."
- Rustling Leaves -old Wordpress version
I hope to always be thrilled, surprised, and enthused by what is outside my door.
Author: Craig Levy Location: Upstate NY "My goal is to initiate a conversation and leave everyone with a broader understanding of the world surrounding us. Most of the postings will be about gardening and plants, living a rural life, and our place in relation to the land, plants, and animals that encompass us. But as with most people, I have many and varied interests that will be popping up from time to time." - Secret Farm: A garden blog
An urban Minnesota garden blog
Author: Lorika • Location: Minneapolis, MN • "I have been organic gardening for about 5 years. My first love is heirloom tomatoes, but I'm really starting to warm up to peppers. I also plant just about every other edible thing I can cram into my small backyard, as well as lilies, tulips and a changing array of other flowers. Another love of mine is photography, so I always try to post interesting pictures of whatever's come up and also the critters that visit the garden."
- Sin City to Slaterville
If Vegas could see me now.
Author: Lynn • Location: Slaterville Springs (Ithaca), NY • "I'm a recent transplant from the Southwest experiencing Finger Lakes four seasons with joy and apprehension, learning a whole new plant vocabulary and trying new things I've never been able to grow. Aside from community plots in Austin, TX, this is my first garden of any real size, so I'm also having fun with design possibilities heretofore out of reach. There's an ample infusion of music links and Beagle pictures here, too."
- Subsistence Pattern
We Grow Our Own
Author: Mr H • Location: Coeur d'Alene, ID (Northern Idaho) • "Weary of the world and its illogical ways my wife and I have chosen a path towards self-reliance in all aspects of our lives. Our main focus is on growing and gathering our own food. We hope to use this blog as an avenue to share with and learn from others with similar interests."
- The Alaska Novice Garden
Gardening in Alaska by a Newbie
Author: Faith • Location: Willow, AK • "A garden blog for new gardeners in AK"
- The Far North Garden
Gardening and edible landscaping in cold climates.
Author: Cassandra • Location: Edmonton, Alberta • "My garden is in Edmonton, Alberta. This blog provides information about gardening, especially food growing, in cold climates and short seasons."
- The Garden Buzz
Right now in the garden...
Author: Rhonda Fleming Hayes • Location: Wayzata, MN • "Rhonda Fleming Hayes has been gardening in some form or fashion since she was a child at her grandmother's side. After leaving her native California, she has followed her husband's career through the South, the Midwest and England gardening as she goes. For the past 10 years she has volunteered as an Extension Master Gardener, currently with the University of Minnesota. Her passions include kitchen gardens and growing habitat for wildlife. She still innocently believes that gardening is the way to wrold peace."
- The Garden Corner
A Blog about a Minnesota girl growing her gardening skills.
Author: Jocelyn • Location: northern Minnesota • "I am a recent college graduate with a passion for gardening. Right now, I am desperately in need of some more gardening space, but there is only so much I can do living in a small apartment with a very small patio."
- The Giddy Garden Gnome
A journal documenting the trials and tribulations of gardening on the rocky coast of Downeast Maine
Author: Giddy • Location: Gouldsboro, Maine • "Gardening fanatic! I love digging in the dirt (what little I have of it!) My zone 5 garden is located on 2 1/2 heavily wooded, rocky acres on the coast of Downeast Maine."
- The Gorham Garden
The continuing saga of a backyard vegetable gardener in southern Maine
Author: Chris • Location: Gorham, ME • "Ever since my Grandmother took me to visit my Great Uncle Lester's meticulously landscaped yard, I've wanted a garden worthy of him. Sadly, he's gone now, so I can't ask him for advice. It's up to a new generation of trial and error in the backyard. I have a garden that I share with my Mother-in-law, lovingly called Kronk. There are fourteen 4'x8' beds with my name on them in the sunniest part of the yard. My gardening credentials consist of lots of reading, trial and error, advice from the old guys (and my mom) and the repeated attempts I make at a homegrown buffet."
- The Home Garden
A Dirty Girl's Guide To Gardening
Author: Dirty Girl • Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho • "The Home Garden is a fun and educational guide to gardening, highlighting the trials and triumphs of a Dirty Girl growing flowers and food in the suburbs."
- The Inspired Garden
Twenty-Four Artists Share Their Vision
Author: Judy Paolini • Location: New England • "This blog tracks the gardening and art ventures of the artists featured in my new book, "The Inspired Garden: Twenty-Four Artists Share Their Vision."
- The Manic Gardener
An Organic Gardening Blog with Twisted Roots
Author: Kate Gardner • Location: Bozeman, Montana • "I'm devoted to gardening, determined to do it organically, dogged by ill health and probably damned as well, so what the hell--might as well go for it. The blog is a place where I keep notes on gardening in what I've dubbed "my own little space under the big sky," including ongoing (and not entirely successful) attempts at growing vegetables indoors. It's also where I record and explore what I learn as I research and write about organic gardening, and what I see as I travel. I'd like the blog to become more of a conversation and less of a one-woman show, so here's an open invitation to stop by the site and share your thoughts and experiences."
- The North Country Gardener
Nurturing plants above the 42nd parallel
Author: Judith Irven • Location: Goshen, Vermont • "Reflections of a New England Gardener with Old English Roots! Look at our ever-changing world outdoors, from snowy winters to teasing springs, balmy summers to glorious autumns. See what to grow in this climate, and how to grow it; how to design a garden in harmony with your personal life and with the natural landscape; and what we can do to make our gardens more sustainable and a positive force in our communities and in the environment. I hope it will be of interest to ALL gardeners, whether you live above or below the 42nd parallel!"
- The optimistic gardener
Author: Linn Arvidsson • Location: Molkom, Sweden • (Written in English) "Linn is a an enthusiastic gardener and photographer who always believes next season will be the best ever but actually enjoys the present one. In the winter she plans huge projects. In the summer she just sinks into the rhythm of the garden. Lives with her husband, dog, cats and birds in an old Swedish farm house and digs large holes in the very heavy clay that forms the ground of her garden."
- The Rustic Garden
Adventures in Adirondack Style Gardening
Author: CJ • Location: near Lake Ontario, NY • "I live a simple life in a log cabin built by my very handy hubby and our family in Upstate NY. We are raising our three kids, three dogs, three fish and one cat in a home filled with love and chaos. This is my Log Cabin and my Rustic Garden... I hope you enjoy it as much as I do."
- The Vegetable Garden
Gardening is such a rewarding activity that I want to share as much of what I have learned as possible.
Author: DJP • Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin • "I come from Indiana "truck gardening" farm stock. I began my garden in 1976 and have enlarged the space at least once. In 1979 my garden received an "Honorable Mention" in the First Annual Victory Garden Contest. After my retirement in 2002 I did horticulture research and published research in the spring and fall of 2006. I continue to do my own "backyard" research with apples and different vegetables each growing season. My wife and I are both Wisconsin Master Gardener Volunteers. Gardening is such a rewarding activity that I want to share as much of what I have learned as possible. Happy Gardening."
- The Vermont Gardener
Hardy Plants For Hardy Vermonters & Their Friends
Author: George Africa • Location: Marshfield, Vermont • "Here at Vermont Flower Farm, flowers are our specialty. We've been growing flowers since the early 80's and although our interests have changed over the years, we have arrived at an outstanding collection of astilbes, daylilies, lilium and hostas plus some great shade plants. We'll post pictures of how the gardens develop and the varieties grow. Chances are good that you'll be interested and want to keep coming back. We hope that as you visit and exchange thoughts, questions and pictures with us, you'll get a sense of gardening in Vermont, the people who visit us here and the gardens that interest us. "
- Through the Garden Gate
Flowers, Food, and Life
Author: Jackie Maas • Location: Minneapolis, MN •
- VERMONT GARDENS
Always Growing Hardy Plants For Hardy Vermonters And Their Friends
Author: George Africa Location: Marshfield, VT "I have recently started Vermont Gardens to share some information about moving our nursery to a new location over the next couple years. My intent is to include business related info to show that there's more to it that sinking a sign in the ground that says "Flowers For Sale".
- Walk Down the Garden Path
Join me on a walk down the garden path in my Western Pennsylvania garden.
Author: Cindy • Location: Baden, Pennsylvania • "My adventures in the garden and with the surrounding wildlife in Western PA."
- Wooded Paths
Gardening on a partially wooded house site, with "public" (access to pedestrians and bicycles) and private paths into the woods.
Author: DWPittelli • Location: Adams, MA •
- Zone 4 Dirt Chronicles
Out Back With My Mud Shoes On
Author: PattyP • Location: Williston, VT • "I'm a Flatlander living in Vermont Zone 4, and growing things isn't always as easy as putting a seed in some dirt here. We have a pretty specific set of weeks in which certain things will germinate and/or grow. And lots of plants won't make it through our cold winter. I write this online journal to help keep track of what and when I plant/snip/harvest, what worked, and what wilted. My own gardening tips and techniques are mostly self-sprouted, so I earnestly welcome comments and advice."
Colorado
- Beside the Stream
Country life at 7,ooo feet
Author: Alice Outwater • Location: southwest Colorado • "I am writing a blog because of a four-day stretch this fall when a bear kept breaking into my 94-year-old neighbor’s Honey House. First Bob nailed some 2×4s across the door, and the bear tore them down. More wood and bigger bolts came next, and that was history. The handyman wired the door with an electric shock system powered by a car battery, and the bear took that out too. By the time the door was barricaded heavily enough to deter the bear, the Honey House looked like a cartoon version of a shack under seige. On the grand scale of things bear problems aren’t very important, but our little adventures with nature and neighbors highlight a side of life that is getting too little attention. In these times of global change and conflict, this website is dedicated to small happenings, and to the creatures among us who don’t wear clothes."
- Bev's Colorado Garden
. . . gardening at the foot of Pikes Peak
Author: Bev • Location: Colorado Springs (Zone 5a), CO • "I live on a corner lot in the suburbs with 1350 sq. ft. of "parking" or "hellstrips," as they are called. Experiencing a drought in 2002, we decided to convert the strips to waterwise (Xeriscape) landscaping. While I have other gardens, they are my pride and joy. Gardening in Colorado can be either delightful or challenging, and that changes hour-by-hour. We are in a semi-arid climate, with lots of sunny days, desiccating winds, damaging hail, torrential downpours, and extreme temperature changes."
- Denver Botanic Gardens
• Flourish. •
Author: Various authors • Location: Denver, Colorado • "Visit Denver Botanic Gardens' Blog to learn about a wide range of topics through the photos and words of our staff."
- Dry Ideas
• Gardens for the high altitude plains of the Rocky Mountain Region. •
Author: Lise Mahnke • Location: Denver, Colorado • "Xeriscape and water wise techniques for environmentally sound landscapes. Working toward sustainability. Emphasis on garden ecology and working with the natural conditions facing the gardener. Landscape design series."
- Dung Hoe
Sometimes it snows more than it grows
Author: Rosey Pollen • Location: Front Range Mountains, Colorado • "Dung Hoe chronicles my attempts to grow a high altitude mountain garden, despite weather and wildlife. Everyday I step outside into my garden, I learn something new. Much enthusiasm is required to face these trials head on, but I manage with some humor and a tongue in cheek attitude."
- Gardening for Nature
Thoughts and images for bringing nature and wildlife into our gardens and lives
Author: Kathy Green • Location: Monument, CO • "Gardening for nature takes care of many problems for me, so I want to share my successes and failures here with you. My gardens are located along the Colorado Front Range, at an elevation of 7300'. We live on about .8 of an acre, with over 100 Ponderosa Pine and countless scrub oak trees. We get snow anytime up to mid June, so the growing season is rather short. But the sky is crystal blue, and the air is wonderfully clean. I have several gardens that are built to bring in wildlife and nature. We regularly have foxes, coyotes, birds, hawks, squirrel and deer, as well as the occasional black bear and mountain lion. The butterflies and hummingbirds are a constant sight in summertime, and the insect pests are few."
- Gardening into Thin Air
• I like the deer but they eat my garden •
Author: Valerie • Location: Boulder, CO • "I'm gardening in the dry brown of Boulder, Co. My garden helpers include a herd of deer that let me know which plants are wildlife resistant. We get blizzards, thunderstorms, hail, lightning, occasional tornados, drought, floods,& hurricane-force winds here so it's a challenge. Oh, and the soil is rocky."
- High Altitude Gardener
Struggles, successes, failures, and "Whoo Hooooo" moments during three seasons of mountain gardening!
Author: Jayne O'Hara • Location: Colorado Mountains, Colorado • "Sharing my high altitude gardening and landscaping struggles, surprises, and successes . . .starting spring, 2006, continued 2007 & still ongoing, spring 2008. I'm a persevering gardenin' gal. Learned all I know about gardening in Texas but none of that stuff works up here in the Rocky Mountains. But, hey, whoever said "an old dog can't learn new tricks" should've been certified...as a non-gardener. 'Cause learning is growing and growing is learning; we're never too old to learn. And grow! Right?"
- the art garden
Welcome, all, as I share my thoughts on gardening, art and joyous living.
Author: Jocelyn Chilvers Location: Denver, Colorado "I delve into gardening, landscape design, art and happenings in the Denver metro area. Colorado's high and dry gardening climate is unique!"
- thoughts, ramblings, dreams and ponderings
Plants that can thrive in Colorful Colorado
Author: Heather Lollar • Location: Brighton, CO • "I am a gardening fanatic that lives in a small town NE of Denver, CO. I have been an avid gardener for 10 years and learn new things everyday! I'm here to share plants that are hardy in zone 4 and 5. My gardens are a constant testing ground for the new and improved."
Commercial enterprise
- Ashridge Trees Blog
Hedging your bets is better than betting your hedge!
Author: Ashridge Trees • Location: Castle Cary, UK • "We mainly blog about the hedge row plants and fruit trees in our nursery and the questions we receive about them, but we also find time to write about humourous countryside incidents and share wild recipes."
- Cobrahead Blog
The best tool in earth
Author: The Valdes family • Location: Cambridge, WI • "CobraHead LLC is a small family-run company that produces hand tools for gardeners and small-scale growers. We promote home gardening, grow-your-own food projects, and the idea that growing good food properly is important to the well-being of humanity and the planet. In our blog we would like to share gardening ideas, talk about what we do with food from the garden and what we are doing to promote CobraHead and good gardening."
- Denver Botanic Gardens
• Flourish. •
Author: Various authors • Location: Denver, Colorado • "Visit Denver Botanic Gardens' Blog to learn about a wide range of topics through the photos and words of our staff."
- DryStoneGarden
Plants and Stone for Green Gardens
Author: BuenoLuna Landscape Designs • Location: San Francisco Bay Area • "DryStoneGarden is a blog project of BuenoLuna Landscape Designs, a small landscape design/build located in the San Francisco Bay Area ( USDA Zone 9b and Sunset Zones 14-17 ). We design and install custom gardens combining dry stack stonework and low-water plants. We are interested in plants, stone, home gardening, landscaping, green building, and sustainability. Our aim with this blog is to gather as much useful information as possible about those topics."
- Garden Planter Store
Tips and ideas for getting the most out of your garden containers – whether decorating, eating or just enjoying.
Author: Marion • Location: Thornbury, Ontario • "Container gardening is fast, easy and one of the most rewarding ways to reap the rewards of viewing wonderful landscapes and growing your own fruits and vegetables. See our Tips and ideas for getting the most out of your garden containers – whether decorating, eating or just enjoying."
- Gardener's Circle Online
Make Beauty, Make Life, Make Your Outdoors Alive!
Author: Ed Hebbe IV • Location: Deer Lodge, Montana • "Chronicles of Circle H Growers, a small retail greenhouse, nursery and garden center in southwest Montana. See what happens behind the scenes of a retail growing operation."
- Gardening With Confidence
Helping people reach their full gardening potential
Author: Helen Yoest • Location: Raleigh, NC • "Gardening With Confidence blog provides how-tos, practices, and design information for all gardeners with special emphasis on organic, sustainable gardening. A monthly maintenance guide is also included specifically for Zone 7b gardens."
- Gardening with Soule
a blog by Teresa Soule and Garden Shoes Online
Author: Author name • Location: blog location • "When the first robin arrives on the scene and the geese are heard flying north overhead, my heart leaps at the possibilities waiting out in my small corner of the Earth. So, as the gardening continues I hope to enlighten you at times and hope to be enlightened by you. Everyone gains their own experience at gardening and I am a whole hearted believer that there is so much to learn from every person that puts spade to dirt in hopes that they will truly reap what they sow. I try to give a lighthearted look at my garden and gardening in general while I also show you some of Garden Shoes Online's products that I have tried myself to let you know what I think first hand. A lot of photos and fun."
- Growing Up
Sherwood Greenhouses - Regina, Saskatchewan
Author: Larry • Location: Regina, Saskatchewan • The journal/blog of Sherwood's Greenhouses in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- Johnnye Merle's Gardens
Johnnye Merle's Gardens: 'cause our grandma is cooler than yours! We're the most unique nursery and garden designers you're going to find in all of Orange County!
Author: Johnnye Merle Gardens • Location: Orange County, CA • "Johnnye Merle's Gardens: 'cause our grandma is cooler than yours! We're the most unique nursery and garden designers you're going to find in all of Orange County! We're located in the gardens of Country Roads Antiques, in Old Town Orange. This blog features updates about our garden, design ideas, and random tidbits about plants, gardening, family and, well, life..."
- Landscaping and Lawn Care Ideas for Kansas City
• Growing Fertile Plants and Fertile Minds •
Author: Jeff Hamons • Location: Kansas City, Kansas • "Timely and helpful Lanscaping tips from a professional for gardeners all over the midwest."
- Lost Valley Gardens Blog
Organic Gardening in Central Texas
Author: Carol and Ron • Location: Dripping Springs, TX • "Several years ago my husband and I decided that we wanted to start our own nursery/farm/landscaping business. We sold our suburban house, bought a small parcel of land in a more rural area, and proceeded to invest in and establish our business, Lost Valley Gardens. I now spend every waking hour either working at my day job or my night job. Loving every minute of it."
- Notes and News from Shady Grove Gardens
Cut flower farming and growing
Author: Susan Wright • Location: Zionville, North Carolina • "Welcome to Shady Grove Gardens. We hope the website will be a helpful insight into organic flower farming in the High Country of North Carolina. Follow our farm ventures, weeds, and weddings. Or, come by and meet us at the Watauga County Farmers Market in Boone, NC."
- Park Seed Garden Journal
The blog with most everything you ever wanted to know about seeds and gardening from the Geo. W. Park Seed Company
Author: Thomas • Location: unspecified location •
- Premium Aquascapes Water Gardening Blog
• News, events, & water gardening tips from a water garden contractor. •
Author: Pieter van Westervelt • Location: New Milford, New Jersey • "Latest information on local water gardening events & maintenance issues. Premium Aquascapes is a Certified Aquascape Contractor with 25 years experience in the green industry. We proudly serve Northern New Jersey." - Scenic Nursery | Gardening Blog
- Shields Gardens Home Page
- Snapdragon's garden
Whats going on in our garden? - flowers to feel good about.
Author: Jane Lindsey • Location: Balfron Station, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom • "In 2000 I chucked in my job as an art gallery curator and retrained in horticulture. Since 2002 I have been building a business out of my two passions - flowers and fabrics. Earlier this year we launched a mail order business allowing more people to have a bit of Snapdragon style in their lives." (She writes about running her business on Snapdragon's Chat blog.)
- UC Botanical Garden
- Vermont Flower Farm
- Yardiac.com Outdoor Living and Gardening Blog
• Hello Fellow Yardiacs! Thank you for visiting our Blog – our desire is for this to be an open forum for all outdoor garden enthusiasts. So come, read, and post often! •
Author: CrazedYardiac • Location: Greenville, South Carolina • "CrazedYardiac - Are You One? A Yardiac is a person who is passionate (i.e. slightly crazed) about thier lawn, garden, or outdoor decor."
Connecticut
- Digital Flower Pictures.com
A professional estate gardener joins the blogging craze
Author: Chris Gardner Location: Small City, CT "I am looking forward to taking a moment to find out a little more about the plants I have been photographing. I hope to explore all aspects of plants, flowers, trees and other garden related topics."
- Garden Junkies
• Everything you want to know about gardening - and more! •
Author: Monica Hemingway • Location: Stamford, Connecticut • "After surviving many gardening disasters (most were avoidable - if I'd only known how...), I share my experiences, ideas, (hard-earned!) gardening advice, plant and product reviews, how-to's, and what's going on in my Stamford, CT garden."
- Gardening Gone Wild
Authors: Fran Sorin, Nan Ondra, Saxon Holt, Steve Silk • Locations: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, California, Connecticut respectively • "Those of us who have chosen to become contributors are individuals who have the desire to express our thoughts, ideas, and philosophies about gardening and the world in which we live."
- Heather's Garden
I'm a married novice gardener in zone 6b with a very patient husband (VPH) and 2 strong step-sons.
Author:Heather Location: Branford, CT "I'm a married novice gardener in zone 6b with a very patient husband (VPH) and 2 strong step-sons. We rent the 1st floor of a 2-story house and along with a permissive landlord, we have an upstairs neighbor who's rarely home and never uses the yard."
- joene's garden
a chronicle of gardening in central Connecticut
Author: joene's garden • Location: south central Connecticut • "Follow my blog where I share gardening knowledge developed from from years of get-down-and-dirty work; from errors and successes refurbishing overgrown plots of land; and from carving out a soothing landscape in the middle of a hardwood forest. As an Advanced Master Gardener with experience in floral design, and a contract gardener and garden coach I continue to seek and find new gardening methods, products, and ideas that will help me and readers create and maintain productive and beautiful gardens. Like any consistently curious gardener, I'm not done learning yet."
- Rivermantic
The famous frog bridge spans the Willimantic River, a shallow but sometimes rushing watery shaft that drops 90 feet as it passes through this old mill town. There are deep green tree glades on either bank sheltering many birds.
Author:Pam and Kate Shorey Location: Willimantic River, CT
- Tomato Casual
Everything Tomato for People Who Love Tomatoes
Author: Reggie Solomon and others Location: New Haven, CT "At Tomato Casual we are not only obsessed with growing, eating, cooking with tomatoes, we're also obsessed with all things tomato whether it be art, music, wallpaper, recipes or movies."
- Urban Garden Casual
Gardening for the Urban Dweller
Author: Reggie Solomon • Location: New Haven, CT • "Urban gardening is my modern farming legacy. In rural Georgia where I grew up, I always kept a backyard garden, but eventually lost touch with gardening during my college, grad school and early working years. Fortunately, I rediscovered gardening but this time I'm in the city. Gardening in my urban backyard one block away from the intersection of interstate highways I-95 and I-91 bordering New Haven's downtown is a "wee bit" different from rural gardening. Urban Garden Casual is my attempt to bridge the worlds of traditional gardening with the challenges and opportunities of urban gardening while keeping things fun and casual."
Container/Balcony Gardening
- 66 Square Feet
New York: one woman, one terrace, twelve seasons.
Author: Marie Viljoen • Location: Brooklyn, NY • "New York terrace-gardening blog with forays around the world and into my kitchen..."
- A Garden in the House
Houseplant How-To, Decoration and Green Living
Author: Kevin Lee Jacobs • Location: Kinderhook, NY • "Kevin Lee Jacobs, a frequent contributor to African Violet Magazine and Berkshire Homestyle Magazine, writes a daily blog that details his adventures with indoor gardening. Kevin shares his own cultural tips and tricks, and shows how an indoor garden can provide beautiful, living decoration to the home, even as snow blankets the world outside."
- Bucolic Bushwick
Rooftop container gardening for the elite urban bourgeoisie
Author: Elaine Espinosa • Location: Brooklyn, NY • "I'm a woman in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY who grows organic vegetables in a rooftop container garden. I write about what I grow, how I grow it and how I deal with plant disease and pests. I'm new at this so it should be an interesting journey."
- Container Garden 411
There’s a beautiful container waiting for you to create. Get Going!
Author: Theresa • Location: Indiana • "Container Garden 411 is about container gardening with flowers, food, fruit, shrubs, as long as it’s in some type of container. We cover the love of creating beauty this way, while sharing product information that helps one be a more effective container gardener. We give you any quick tips, talk about types of containers, planters, soil recipes, and anything else necessary. If you want to have the most awesome flower experience ever, you are in the right place."
- Digging Decorating and Design
The blog of Rebecca Cole, the owner of a full service floral, garden and interiors business.
Author: Rebecca Cole • Location: New York City • "Rebecca Cole has been gardening on rooftops in New York City for 15 years, has published books on the subject, and now blogs frequently recording her latest gardening and design adventures."
- Guerilla Gardening
A survival guide for gardeners - from my roof to the community garden
Author: Witch's ball • Location: New York, NY • "gardening and getting together in a NYC community garden as well as on my roof"
- The Indoor Gardener
A day-to-day diary of my adventures growing an indoor garden.
Author: Steve • Location: Great Neck, NY • "A day-to-day diary reporting on my experiences with my indoor garden, dedicated to gardeners like me who've been relegated to apartment living and seek to exercise an itchy green thumb."
- The Occasional Gardener
A visual journal
Author: Chris Location: Harlem, NY and Mamaroneck, NY "I garden occasionally--almost weekly--at a friend's garden in Mamaroneck. I also cultivate a small patch right outside my kitchen window in Harlem, in the summer along with a myriad of jars and pots that congregate around the windows and ledges of my apartment that come to life when the summer sun is high enough and the winter radiators are turned off. This digital plot [my blog] is a visual journal of my activities in these borrowed, urban and random spaces. From my hotch potch garden I enjoy and cultivate the very same things that artists, medieval monks, peasants and all the folk that identify with the term' gardener' have done for centuries- food, medicine, sanctuary and art." Compiler's note: This site is gorgeous.
- The Urban Gardener
Author: Amber Freda • Location: New York City • "Affectionately known by her clients as "The Plant Lady," Amber Freda's firm Star Gardens offers garden design, installation, and plant maintenance services to clients in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The great majority of our clients are in New York City, where our goal is to steadily tranform the concrete jungle into an urban paradise. We are best known for our small urban garden designs, including roof gardens, vertical gardens, terraces, decks, containers, courtyards, flower beds, and water gardens. "
- Urban Organic Gardener
New York City Vegetable Gardening in Self Watering Containers
Author: Mike Lieberman • Location: New York City • "My goal of having this site is to inspire you to start gardening and growing your own food. If I'm doing it, why can't you?"
Delaware
- Chitweed
I am perhaps the Luckiest of Gardeners. I Garden at work, I garden at home...I am always learning from both
Author: Chitweed Location: Delaware "I happen to be one very lucky gardener. I manage and buy for a family business that has a greenhouse & garden center. Because of this, I get to choose from vendors all over the country for products new and old. I get to try out the 'new' in my home garden, and turn other gardeners onto them as well. I am able to help novice gardeners with the tried and true favorites to start their gardening experience out on the right foot. I share gardening with many people on a one-to-one basis daily. I learn fom experienced gardeners about their trials, triumphs,recommendations, and wish lists. I get secrets and techniques that have been carried down for generations. I renew my love of gardening and get excited all over again with gardeners of all skill levels. All this and I love my job. Yessiree...I'm one lucky gardener."
- In the Garden with Gentle Palm
Raising vegetables, flowers, chickens, and Gentle Palm in the Mid-Atlantic
Author: Portia Location: Delaware "I am a gardener in the Mid-Atlantic with a partner, four kids, parents, brothers, sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews, an old stone house, a full-time law practice, chickens, guineas, fish, geckos, a dog, a cat, and - sometimes - my sanity."
Denmark
- The Chili Blog
Hottest fruit ever
Author: Kenneth Christensen - A proud Dane with dirt under the nails Location: Denmark "A Danish chili lover trying to navigate the hot and spicy world."
England
- . . . but it's dirty
soil, worms and manure everywhere
Author: David • Location: Lancashire, Great Britain • Funny
- A Smallholder's Diary
Ramblings of a smallholder.
Author: Mark Daymond • Location: Lincolnshire, United Kingdom • "My blog is about my attempts to be as self-sufficient as possible. It is primarily about growing my own vegetables and fruit, but also covers (or I intend to cover) keeping chickens, cooking, book reviews, crafts and anything else related."
- Bean Sprouts
One family's search for the good life
Author: Melanie Rimmer • Location: Cheshire, UK • "Five of us live in a very small ex-council house with a very small garden on the edge of farmland. We grow some of our food on an allotment a couple of miles away. We keep chickens and bees. We try to be "green", whatever that means."
- Down on the Allotment
Everyday happenings in my veggie patch, because you can't eat flowers!
Author: Matron • Location: Hillingdon, West London • "I've been growing vegetables all my life, and my parents 'dug for victory' in London during World War 2 and never got out of the habit. I grew up on an allotment so growing fruit and vegetables is a way of life for me."
- Fennel and Fern
The stylish gardening blog
Author: Isabel • Location: Southampton, UK • "A stylish organic gardening magazine. As well as expert advice on growing flowers, fruit and veg, there's a blog on our re-design project, transforming a scrappy back garden and fire escape on the South Coast into a pocket-friendly potager; inspiration boards; monthly seasonal recipe blogs; allotment blogs; community garden blogs; and money-saving, eco-friendly gardening advice..."
- Gardening and Dogs
Gardens and Dogs can co-exist
Author: Barhi • Location: Southampton, England • "Think you can’t have a beautiful garden that you share with your dogs – think again. My two passions are gardening and my dogs, and I want to share ideas of how the two can easily be combined. It is perfectly possible to have your horticultural haven outside the back door and not have a separate “dog area”. These days, few of us have much land so it would be wasteful to separate humans and dogs. Our small suburban garden is shared with our lively Springer Spaniels and is considered to be of high enough quality to be one of 3,600 gardens in the UK to open to the public under the National Garden Scheme. Who am I? I am Finuala Barnes and I live on the edge of the New Forest in Hampshire, England. I have loved, shown, worked (and occasionally bred) my Barhi Welsh Springer Spaniels for over twenty years. Our current garden has been open to the public under the NGS since 2007. I have written on gardening for Dog World and the Welsh Springer Spaniel Club ."
- Gardens and Cats
I hope you will join us on this garden journey.
Author: Thora • Location: London, England • "My husband and I moved into this, our new home, at the end of January 2007. I was faced with a lovely 2 bedroom flat, and a huge, shared garden at the back, which was a wasteland. Now, I have created some gardens before out of nothing, but nothing quite on this scale. And let me make it clear from the start, I am not any kind of professional. I have a passion for gardening, and I have had good advice from friends and acquaintances, on what to do, and when and how to do it. The rest is down to me! And some good help from husband and neighbours. [...] I hope you will join us on this garden journey. I hope to share with you all the ups (it’s all been up for me!), the practical, the plants and their names, and what we’ve accomplished."
- Horticultural
Jane Perrone's organic allotment and garden blog
Author: Jane Perrone • Location: near London, Great Britain • "This blog is for writing about the things I don't get to cover at work: the trials and treasures of nurturing my garden and allotment. I write about the things I wanted to read when I set out learning about horticulture: how do you set up a wormery? What the hell is a barbietola di chioggia? How do I become a gardener if I only have a windowsill in my flat? My nickname at school? Botany. Need I say more? Ok, well I have a smallish garden (which I haven't got around to measuring yet), a five-pole allotment (that's just over 125 square metres) and a lot of houseplants. I went organic four or five years ago."
- Soilman's Allotment Blog
My triumphs and disasters growing vegetables
Author: Soilman • Location: Southeast England • "I have a small plot that I rent near my home in south-east England. It's called an allotment, for those not familiar with British argot. It's about 4m by 25m. Not huge, but not tiny. Enough to grow enough. For two--the wife and me. I've been doing it for two seasons. This is my third. I'm just a beginner, frankly, and you'll see how many ghastly errors I make as you read this. BUT I have a lot of fun trying. I'll do my best to convey that, plus other rants and observations, on this blog."
- Spade Work : From Plot to Plate
Organic gardening and vegetable growing within flooding distance of the Thames, weekend allotmenteering overlooking the North Downs, and tending a monastery garden.
Author: John Curtin • Location: three places in England •
- The Galloping Gardener
Visits to gardens - many in the UK where I live - but also overseas, when I am travelling. How to combine several garden visits in a day and which ones are really worth seeing.
Author: Charlotte • Location: Sussex, England • "As an inveterate travel, with homes in both the UK and the US, and a passionate gardener, I get to see more gardens than most! My blog is about sharing those wonderful gardens I see with my readers, so that they can visit if they are in the area."
- The Japanese Maple Guide
The ultimate resource for everything Japanese maple
Author: John Geraghty • Location: St Austell, UK • "The Japanese maple guide is a distillation of all the knowledge I've gained from over thirty years of growing Japanese maples, but not all of them successfully! Mostly, it's been a case of trial and error as, even before the internet, information on growing them properly was patchy to say the least and at times totally misleading. A point worth remembering is that although I don't live in the same town as you, the information I've published here is still relevant to your specific needs. It doesn't matter where you live, you're still growing a non-native plant and as such we all have to provide the same or similar requirements to that found in its native environment for it to thrive."
- Veg Plot
Spawn of allotment 21
Author: Frankie • Location: Hereford, UK • - Veg Plotting
Musing on life in the heart of rural Wiltshire. Well, erm, Chippenham actually
Author: VP • Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK • "It's a rather quirky and eclectic blog with links to lots of further information if you want to know more. I also love having a chat with you in the Comments. Most of the ideas for my blog posts occur to me whilst on my allotment (a bit like a Victory Garden, but without the need for a war going on to have one), but it's not just about growing fruit and vegetables. Large helpings of gardening, life in a small English rural town, a campaign to improve the quality of our public spaces and anything else which happens along my path squeeze themselves in there as well. It's been described by several people as 'entertaining education', which I think is a BIG compliment."
Finland
- Narcissan narsissit
Collection of a Daffodil addict
Author: Narcissa Location: Finland"This is a page for displaying all my daffodil varieties. I made it because I myself would have loved to find something like this, a page with good pictures of the varieties that are most commonly sold, names included."
- Viherpeukalo keskella kammenta(The Apprentice Green Thumb)
Viikonloppupuutarhurin jorinoita (Musings of a weekend gardener)
Author: Narcissa Location: the northern part of southern Finland"My garden is located some 100 kilometres north of Helsinki, the capital of Finland, where I live. It surrounds our summer cottage, which means that I only get to go there on weekends and holidays. I won't be even visiting my garden until April, so most of the pictures during the winter will be old ones, the current snowy pictures were taken over Christmas." Editor's note: This blog is written in Finnish but the photos are wonderful. I have given a rough translation of the title and tagline with the help of the author, who does speak English, so don't hesitate to comment on her blog.
Florida
- Danielle's Garden Blog
fruit, flowers, herbs, veggies, garden
Author: Danielle Copeland • Location: Florida • "i'm a newly married gen-X-er in south florida. I planted my first garden in late 2006 and have tracked its progress ever since."
- Family and Flowers
• Stay-at-home mom and gardener •
Author: Darla Green • Location: Florida • "I enjoy working in my yard, (actually I like to refer to it as playing) because I love it and try to do something out there everyday. I feel very close to the Lord when I am in my gardens. It seems as though His voice is more clear there. I also enjoy spending time in the kitchen. This summer my friend and I have learned how to can pears, different types of relish, jellie and figs,(we got to use veggies and fruits from our gardens) and we are not finished yet."
- Florida gardening
An informational website dedicated to the zen of gardening
Author: Nancy Weikle Location: FloridaFlorida is a whole 'nother world and requires a whole different approach to gardening. Nancy shares what she's learning.
- Garden Accessories
Author: Nancy Weikle Location: FloridaRecommended links
- Garden Living
• Outdoor Adventures with Family and Kids •
Author: Emily Eubanks • Location: Micanopy, FL • "A self proclaimed 'brown thumb,' I've come to believe my brown thumb just needs a little fertilizer. I garden in the early evening - usually followed by the kids and dogs . I do most of the dreaming in the garden and then talk my husband into doing the heavy labor. My gardening zone is 8b and/or 9a depending on the season."
- Plant Resources
Author: Nancy Weikle Location: FloridaRecommended links
- Plant Tips
Author: Nancy Weikle Location: FloridaRecommmended links
- Solutions
• We created this blog to hold space for people who are seeking solutions in a world that can sometimes seem way too focused on problems. •
Author: Curtis and Peggy Whitwam • Location: Tampa, Florida • "While it is a site dedicated to all types of solution oriented positive intention, the primary way we manifest this is through growing beautiful, edible gardens. We want to share this information with as many people as possible."
- Spruce Pine Cottage
Native plants, bugs, gnomes, and such . . .
Author: Robert MacGrogan and Leslie Kimel Location: Gadsen County, FL
France
- Mas Du Diable
• Living Closer to the Land •
Author: Laura Hudson • Location: The Cévennes mountains, Languedoc, Southern France • "Mas du Diable is our home, we came here to get closer to the land. Here I write about growing and cooking our own food and the rural skills needed to live on this land. This site is about organic gardening, sustainable living, growing food for the kitchen, living from the land, heirloom seeds, seed saving and rural skills. I also post recipes, articles and resources for living closer to the land."
Georgia
- Blackwidow Garden
Trying my hand at flower gardening.....
Author: Pam Bevill • Location: Rincon, GA • "I'm an amateur gardener in South Georgia. I live just north of Savannah, Ga, outside a town called Rincon. I've lived here all of my life and grew up on the edge of the town itself when it was small. Now, the town is much larger and I live a few miles outside of town with my husband and two almost grown kids, a son and a daughter. We own and live on 5 acres so I have lots of room to try gardening."
- Garden Mob Perennial & Rose Gardening Scribe
An interactive online guide to rose gardening, including photographs and descriptions of hundreds of garden roses.
Author: Barrie • Location: Athens, GA • "Many people regard roses as time-consuming, fussy plants. It is true that some hybrid teas are gawky, disease-ridden affairs best suited for the traditional rose bed, but there are many roses, including hybrid teas, which are beautiful plants, tough and hardy. My hope is that today's consumers will insist on easy to grow roses and today's breeders will focus on hybridizing roses for vigor and disease resistance. It is our hope that you will find many roses to choose from. Some will need spraying; hopefully, most will not. Our endeavor should be to make the rose a citizen in every garden again."
- Garden Rookie of Georgia
• A vegetable, herb, and flower garden journal. •
Author: James Hudson • Location: Augusta, Georgia • "I am a beginner-level gardener with only a few seasons under my belt. I have a small home garden where I grow vegetables for my family to eat. This is the journal of how I learn to grow plants by trial and error."
- In the Garden
All things gardening and life!
Author: Tina, Lola, Skeeter and Dawn • Location: Tennessee, Georgia, Maine • "Daily posts with all things related to gardening and life and wildlife."
- Niches
Native Plants, Habitat Restoration, and Other Science Snippets
Author: Wayne and Glenn Location: Athens, GeorgiaWe have 40 acres of variously forested land with a creek running through a hollow into Goulding Creek. This area is in the Piedmont area of northeast Georgia, about 70 miles northeast of Atlanta. Sparkleberrysprings.com is envisioned as a small business selling native plants and seed. We scour the countryside for seeds, and grow them and evaluate them and maybe propagate the best and sell them. That's the idea, anyway.
- Seedlings
• Gardening, Faith, and Flowers •
Author: Lynn Coulter • Location: Georgia • "I'm a gardener and writer who lives in Georgia. I'm crazy about my family, books, knitting, and biking. Currently I'm writing my third book, Little Mercies, for my publisher, B&H Books. It's due out in the spring/summer of 2010."
Germany
- Garten selbstgemacht! - Gartenblog
Written in German
Author: Steffi Location: Germany"My gaertnerblog (which means gardeners blog in English) is German but it is a gardening blog."
- Haus und Garten Blog
German Blog about House and Gardening.
Author: Marcel Location: Saxony, Germany "A German Blog where we report every day about a topic that is related to housekeeping and gardening such as lawn care or how to create a new garden. The forum we also have helps beginners and many experts answer their questions."
- Paradise Found
A garden addict
Author: Corinna Schwartz Location: Schleswig-Holstein (northern Germany) "A Garden Is... one of life's essentials. I wouldn't know how to do without so I would love to share my experiences with others. My garden which started in 2002 -- even before the house was finished -- is still developing. There is a basic outline, nothing stylish, rather wild in some parts and fairly colourful. Of course it's the plants that are at the center of everything, but I'm also both fascinated and unnerved by all the other visitors such as birds and bugs and slugs and ....Our personal paradise is located in northern Germany in a small village near the Baltic sea. Therefore the climate is fairly moderate; even though the winters can be rather cold, the summers rather wet and any time of the year rather stormy, we usually don't have those extremes that other parts of the country are plagued with. - Self-Reliant Yuppies
spring is upon us and we're ready to start turning this plot into our own little garden of Eden.
Author: The Muehli's Location: Germany "We're setting a challenge for ourselves: Provide enough produce in our own back yard to supply the majority of our fruit and veggie needs. If we can't grow it, we want to buy it within 10 km of our home. The fun part is we just bought our first home (a farmhouse built in 1834) which needs some TLC, we don’t know much about gardening and we want to do as much as we can around here with our own two hands. We've got a lot of learning to do and a lot of work...this should be interesting ;)"
GWA
- bloomingwriter
A somewhat unruly cottage garden of thoughts, tips, & more-than-occasional rants on gardening, cats & writing.
Author: Jodi DeLong Location: Canning, Nova Scotia, Canada "I always say my three bad habits are cats, books and plants; this is a perfect place to frolic and share thoughts about these passions. Occasionally, I go off topic and have a rant, usually about weather, bigbox bullies, or right of centre politicians (of the Canadian type). My bark is worse than my bite, though, except where goutweed is concerned."
- Botanical Gardening Blog
News, views and clues from BotanicalGardening.com
Author: Carlo Balistieri • Location: Tuxedo Park, NY • "Do you dream of gardening in your own, private botanical garden? Want to grow all the amazing, exotic plants you find at area garden centers and nurseries? Need help and don't know where to turn? BotanicalGardening.com is your source for sound, solid advice from practical experience. It took years of growing rare and unusual plants to accumulate the know-how condensed into these pages. I've made all the mistakes so you don't have to."
- bwisegardening
Adventures in Gardenland
Author: Barbara Wise • Location: Nashville, TN • " Sage advice and garden chronicles for plant addicts or black-thumb diehards, helping you find success in your gardening endeavors."
- Central Texas Gardener Blog
Texas-tough ideas
Author: Linda Lehmusvirta • Location: Austin, TX • "See what's up this week in my east Austin garden, what to add to your to-do list, and preview this week's Central Texas Gardener."
- Cobrahead Blog
The best tool in earth
Author: The Valdes family • Location: Cambridge, WI • "CobraHead LLC is a small family-run company that produces hand tools for gardeners and small-scale growers. We promote home gardening, grow-your-own food projects, and the idea that growing good food properly is important to the well-being of humanity and the planet. In our blog we would like to share gardening ideas, talk about what we do with food from the garden and what we are doing to promote CobraHead and good gardening."
- Dirty Little Secrets
Make your garden healthy and happy with these timely tips.
Author: Kathy Van Mullekom • Location: Yorktown, Virginia • "All about gardening in southeastern Virginia and along the Mid-Atlantic East Coast."
- Down & Dirty
What's a little dirt between friends?
"Ellen Zachos (instructor and coordinator of the Gardening Department in Continuing Ed at the New York Botanic Garden) offers practical, accessible, and ecclectic advice. She writes about urban and suburban gardening, foraging for wild foods (in the heart of NYC!), cooking with garden and wild produce, and enjoying nature with children and friends. Make gardening and the environment part of your everyday life, no matter where you live."
- Each Little World
EACH LITTLE WORLD that collides with mine
Author: Linda Brazill • Location: Madison, WI • "Each Little World burst into being in August 2008 to focus on my perennial passion for homes and gardens. The world of interiors and exteriors; bibliophiles; china and dishing; Domino theory; feasts and fests; food; flowers and gardens; material possessions and textile obsessions; worldly goods and bads."
- Garden Faerie's Musings
A little blog about gardens, gardening, visiting gardens, and the little joys of everyday life.
Author: Monica Milla • Location: Ann Arbor, MI • "Monica is a gardener, writer, and speaker who enjoys getting people excited about many aspects of gardening. Her "pet" topics include gardening for cats and winter seed sowing."
- Gardening and Yardening
Our way to preserve our newspaper columns which disappear after they are published
Author: Nancy Szerlag and Jeff Ball • Location: Attica, MI • "Nancy has been a garden writer for 14 years and Jeff for 26 years. We have many gardens where we test plants, tools, and new products. We both write a weekly column in the Detroit News; Nancy's is called Gardening and Jeff's is called Yardening."
- Gardening With Confidence
Helping people reach their full gardening potential
Author: Helen Yoest • Location: Raleigh, NC • "Gardening With Confidence blog provides how-tos, practices, and design information for all gardeners with special emphasis on organic, sustainable gardening. A monthly maintenance guide is also included specifically for Zone 7b gardens."
- Gardens by Kelly Productions
The youngest Master Gardener in Iowa
Author: Kelly D. Norris • Location: Bedford, IA • "Kelly is a freelance writer and Master Gardener from southwest Iowa. His passion and obsession with horticulture, plants, and gardening embodies nearly every function of his life." This site used to be called The E-Garden Almanac.
- Great Garden Plants Blog
Learn from the Experts - Mary & Chris
Author: Mary & Chris • Location: Holland, MI • "Learn from the gardening experts – Mary & Chris as we make your gardening experience enjoyable. Discover new plants, exciting plant combinations, tips, trends, stunning garden photography & more."
- Hoosier Gardener
An informed, yet personal take on natural gardening in Indiana and other dirty topics.
Author: Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp • Location: Indianapolis • "Info packed site with monthly checklists, lots of resources and help with gardening. My goal is to help you succeed so you'll keep getting dirt under your fingernails."
- Lois de Vries' Garden Views
Thoughts on Gardening and Environmental Issues
Author: Lois de Vries Location: LaFayette, NJ "I love working in my own garden as well as touring other people's gardens as a field editor for Better Homes and Gardens Garden Group. Join me on my journey through the gardening life and on my quest to promote land management practices that reconnect people to the Earth."
- Seedlings
• Gardening, Faith, and Flowers •
Author: Lynn Coulter • Location: Georgia • "I'm a gardener and writer who lives in Georgia. I'm crazy about my family, books, knitting, and biking. Currently I'm writing my third book, Little Mercies, for my publisher, B&H Books. It's due out in the spring/summer of 2010."
- Shirley Bovshow's Edenmaker's Blog
Eden-making is the art of bringing Paradise to your home
Author: Shirley Bovshow • Location: Los Angeles, CA • "Musings on gardens, outdoor living, nature-inspired travel, food from the ground, and family life." Shirley Bovshow is an in-demand landscape designer in Los Angeles and the designer/co-host of the television show, “Garden Police” airing on the Discovery Home Channel.
- Studio G - Garden Design & Landscape Design inspiration
A Landscape designers journal of ideas, inspirations, products and destinations.
Author: Rochelle • Location: Harvard, MA • "Studio ‘g’ is a design blog dedicated to sharing landscape ideas, hotel resort and spa gardens, outdoor art and design, the latest in landscape products and services and to inspiring readers to recognize a sense of place so as they travel the world they can celebrate and value it. I feature sneak peeks (pictures of interesting gardens and projects by any designer who would like to submit – designers, send me your best!), along with product reviews, inspirations, trends in hospitality and landscape design, interviews, guides to travel and garden related shopping around the world, and trade show and design event coverage. I discuss my industry (residential and commercial land design), my clients industries (hospitality development, spa development, design and construction), and my life as a writer, designer, entrepreneur, mom and a few other titles in an effort to create a thriving online community."
- The Garden of Words
A Garden is not a place, It is a Passion, a Passage -Octavio Paz
Author: Katie Elzer-Peters • Location: Wilmington, NC • "Blog of Katie Elzer-Peters, owner of The Garden of Words, L.L.C. Features a daily photo (mostly garden and plant related) with a catchy headline. Tips on garden writing, and book reviews."
- The Garden Plot
The Garden Media Group is a specialty lawn & garden public relations agency.
Author: Garden Media Group Location: Chadds Ford, PA "The Garden Media Group is a specialty lawn & garden public relations agency. This garden blog does not aim to sell our clients to you but to inform you of the hippest, hottest gardening news, trends and events in our industry today! The Garden Plot is about all things 'Gardening.' Everything from the best soil to use to which plants are best for your region. Dedicated to bringing you only the best in gardening information, we at Garden Media Group welcome all your comments and if you have a book or link we should know about, don't be afraid to share it with us!"
- The Gardener's Pantry
All things related to food and gardening
Author: Rose Marie McGee Location: Albany, OR "I grew up gardening at Nichols Garden Nursery in Albany, OR. Today, my husband Keane, and I operate this family owned mail order seed company and herb nursery. I am the co-author of McGee & Stuckey’s Bountiful Container, a complete guide to creating and growing edible gardens in containers. This blog explores the relationship between gardening and food. I do a fair amount of public speaking on garden related topics and sometimes start my talk by saying this is for gardeners who eat, so it is with The Gardener’s Pantry. Happy gardening." Rose Marie Nichols McGee
- The Laptop Gardener
Author: Laptop gardener • Location: Austin, TX • This is a blog by the president of Garden Writer's Association. "This is a combination website and blog where I can share with you all manner of things that I find interesting and informative about gardening. So there’s a little about garden design, some tips on how to garden more successfully, a smidgen of serious news that might affect your garden, lots of great plants to know and love, plenty about gardens to visit in North America and beyond, new plants, garden book reviews and anything else that strikes my fancy."
- The Vermont Gardener
Hardy Plants For Hardy Vermonters & Their Friends
Author: George Africa • Location: Marshfield, Vermont • "Here at Vermont Flower Farm, flowers are our specialty. We've been growing flowers since the early 80's and although our interests have changed over the years, we have arrived at an outstanding collection of astilbes, daylilies, lilium and hostas plus some great shade plants. We'll post pictures of how the gardens develop and the varieties grow. Chances are good that you'll be interested and want to keep coming back. We hope that as you visit and exchange thoughts, questions and pictures with us, you'll get a sense of gardening in Vermont, the people who visit us here and the gardens that interest us. "
- Transatlantic Plantsman
Plants, books on plants and using plants
Author: Graham Rice Location: Pennsylvania (USA - zone 5) and in Northamptonshire (UK - zone 8) "Plants, plant combinations, books and magazines about plants, more stuff about more plants - from both sides of the Atlantic - with occasional asides on wildflowers and wildlife, the transatlantic life and perhaps occasionally fishing, music and books on subjects other than plants."
- VERMONT GARDENS
Always Growing Hardy Plants For Hardy Vermonters And Their Friends
Author: George Africa Location: Marshfield, VT "I have recently started Vermont Gardens to share some information about moving our nursery to a new location over the next couple years. My intent is to include business related info to show that there's more to it that sinking a sign in the ground that says "Flowers For Sale".
Hawaii
- Tropical Embellishments
One Voice in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean
Author: Christopher C • Location: the Hawaiian island of Maui • "A Landscape Gardener and Designer on Maui for twenty years. This blog is now an archive of the past. I have left the island."
Honduras
- La Gringa's Blogicito
Gardening and living in La Ceiba, Honduras. Neither is easy for this American woman.
Author: La Gringa Location: La Ceiba, Atlantida, Honduras"I moved to Honduras in September 2001 and that's where this story begins. I would love to hear from other Latin American gardeners. Please leave a comment or email me directly. Gracias!"
Idaho
- Color Me Green Landscape Design
Complete Landscape Design and Consultation
Author: Katherine Janquart • Location: Boise, ID • "I am a landscape designer and horticulturalist in Boise, Idaho. I started my blog to be able to display some of the creative thing that I do. From landscape designs to paintings and jewerly. I try to make my blog informational but yet very personal. I love plants and anything to do with them and love to share my knowledge and opinions about horticulture."
- Idaho Gardener
All about gardening in Idaho and the Rocky Mountains
Author: Mary Ann • Location: Boise, ID • "A clearinghouse for gardening info in my area. I try to keep it lean and clean."
- Joe's Garden
This is a place for me to put down my thoughts on my favorite time waster...organic gardening.
Author: Joe's Garden • Location: Nampa, ID • "So, this is a place for me to put down my thoughts on my favorite time waster...organic gardening. I have come to appreciate the garden life, but have started to discover that I have a hard time remembering the lessons I learn each year. So, I am going to use this space to help me remember and provide another way for me to share my garden. I am a husband, father, computer geek, and part time gardener. My time in the garden helps to stabilize my life and is ultimately the only thing that keeps me sane."
- Notes from a Cottage Garden
God Almighty first planted a Garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man..." Francis Bacon
Author: Connie • Location: North Central Idaho • "I have been gardening for 27 years, and still find it to be a most rewarding mix of work and enjoyment! There are always things to learn, improvements to be made, new plants to try, weeds to pull, and the ongoing vision of new garden spaces to be created."
- Potter's Garden
A tale of a greenhouse from the sassy wife's perspective
Author: Melissa Potter • Location: Victor, ID • "Potter’s Garden sprung to life in November 2008 in Victor, Idaho after several years of hemming and hawing…uhm, I mean, planning, by creator, builder, greenthumb, glassblower and overall handy man – Jordan Potter. [...] As the little lady in his life, I strongly encouraged (nagged) him to go forth and build. Hope springs eternal, after all. We had to take out a second mortgage to do it as well as experience that “a-ha” moment fresh off of a retreat where all the fresh produce was grown at the retreat center before we did it. But we did it. [...] Now, as the seasons change, Potter’s Garden continues to morph into something we haven’t yet defined…but continue to search for."
- Seasonal Wisdom
Celebrating the richness of nature's abundance all year long.
Author: Teresa O'Connor • Location: Boise, ID • "Interviews, ideas and inspiration about sustainable gardening, seasonal folklore and healthy living delivered weekly."
- Subsistence Pattern
We Grow Our Own
Author: Mr H • Location: Coeur d'Alene, ID (Northern Idaho) • "Weary of the world and its illogical ways my wife and I have chosen a path towards self-reliance in all aspects of our lives. Our main focus is on growing and gathering our own food. We hope to use this blog as an avenue to share with and learn from others with similar interests."
- The Clearwater Garden Journal
- The Home Garden
A Dirty Girl's Guide To Gardening
Author: Dirty Girl • Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho • "The Home Garden is a fun and educational guide to gardening, highlighting the trials and triumphs of a Dirty Girl growing flowers and food in the suburbs."
Illinois
- Cheryl's Square Foot Garden
• My Obsession ... My Outlet •
Author: Cheryl • Location: Chicago, Illinois • "I started this blog to chronicle the successes and failures of my garden and gardening related activities. I wanted to see how well I could garden organically in my small city lot. (I only recently made the connection that you could make compost instead of going to the store and buying it). Mostly it's a place where I can express my love of gardening and the knowledge I've come across through trial and error, even if's just between me and my computer...but if some like-minded individuals find something interesting and useful, all the better."
- Dragonfly Corner
This is a journal of my life as it pertains to family, friends, gardening, and life in general.
Author: Beckie • Location: Central (the prairie lands) Illinois • "I am a grandma of 7 beautiful girls, and a wife of 41 years to a wonderful husband. I enjoy flowers and plants, nature, reading, cooking, crafting, and of course spending time with family and friends!"
- Garden Girl
Author: garden girl • Location: Chicago, IL • "Growing up in a farming, gardening family, I was bitten by the bug early and have been gardening since I was a little girl. Thanks to an 18-year stint in corporate America, I've learned a lot about business management. In 2007, I decided to combine my passion for plants and gardening with my business and entrepreneurial background to grow a garden consulting, coaching, and maintenance business of my own. I love what I do even more than I imagined, and still find time for my own ornamental and kitchen gardens, volunteering as a University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener, and sharing my gardening passion through my blog."
- Glenns Garden
Getting You Growing In Your Own Special Way!
Author: Glenn Bronner Location: Chicago, IL "I have put this site together to share 30 plus years expierence in the field of horticulture and gardening. I am a professional grounds keeper and have been all my life. Everyday I get to go to work and do what I love best Garden. I would like to invite you to come and stay a while wonder through my site and learn and share in the world of gardening."
- got serenity?
a blog from Northern Illinois about gardening and the stuff that gets in the way of my garden!! The early bird gets the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese!!
Author: Sissy • Location: Northern Illinois •
- Growing in Chicago
Thoughts from a veteran garden writer and avid gardener on how-to, why and what's next
Author: Beth Botts • Location: Chicago, IL • "After more than 20 years on staff at the Chicago Tribune, where my garden stories won bronze, silver and gold awards from the Garden Writers Association, I'm on my own in the great green world. Raised on the South Side by an organic gardener and environmentalist, I now garden in a leafy suburb on the edge of Chicago--in the deep shade on the north side of a four-story building, in the sunny strip by the garbage cans, in pots on the third-floor porch and on the windowsills in the winter."
- KJ Gardens
Author: Kitty Joyce Location: Chicago, IL
- Mike's Garden Blog - Vegetable Gardening Know How and Discussion About Growing Food
Questions, Answers, Musings about gardening
Author: Mike Location: West Central Illinois "I have been gardening all my life which right now is a little more than 58 years worth. When I was a child my parents had a garden and I used to work and enjoy eating the stuff from their garden. I have been gardening in my current location for about 28 years or so. I think I will continue as long as I can plant the seed because you cannot beat the fresh food. Regular vegetables is mostly what grows in my garden. Mostly I just grow what I like to eat. I am not going to tell people how to garden. My hope is others will post info on the site about what they do and maybe we all can do a better job in the future." - Mr Brown Thumb
Author: MrBrownThumb • Location: Chicago, Illinois •
- Mr. McGregor's Daughter
Garden musings from the land beyond O'Hare
Author: Barbara Location: Chicago, IL "A life-long resident of Northern Illinois, I have been gardening for almost 20 years. My current garden, Squirrelhaven, is 14 years old. My Zone is 5a."
- My Skinny Garden
My attempt to beautify my boring backyard. Landscape design and growing suggestions appreciated.
Author: Gina • Location: Forest Park, IL • "I'm a novice gardener, do it herself-er, toolbelt diva wannabe. My blog is mostly about my gardening and DIY conundrums but every now and then I grow something really pretty or build something very cool."
- On the Shores of Lake Chicago
Gardening in Oak Park, IL, in the clay mud of prehistoric Lake Chicago
Author: On the Shores of Lake Chicago • Location: Oak Park, Illinois • "I am in Oak Park, Illinois, USA (zone 5b) with a semi-native, semi-organic garden and pond."
- Pollinators-Welcome
A weblog to record the developement of a wildlife friendly garden.
Author: Gloria • Location: Chicago, IL • "If you have read the book 'Noah's Garden' by Sara Stein then you already understand a lot about my gardening habits. If not, I am a wildlife habitat provider with a easy does it inclination to native plants. No sprays ever. Compost is my friend."
- Prairie Rose's Garden
Notes from a beginning gardener with sprinkles of poetry and philosophic musings
Author: Rose • Location: Central Illinois • "I am a "late bloomer" when it comes to gardening. Born and raised on a farm, I have returned to my country roots. Recently retired, I am looking forward to being able to do all the things I always wanted to do but never had enough time. That includes gardening, of course!"
- Prairie Tide
Midwestern Meanderings from a Zone 6 Garden in Peoria, Illinois.
Not strictly limited to gardening, but there are enough gardening entries to make it worthwhile. - Ramble On Rose
Ramblings about prairie plants, conservation, and the trials of a clay-filled garden
Author: Rose Rankin • Location: northwest of Chicago, IL • "I'm a freelance writer working and gardening northwest of Chicago. I specialize in native Midwestern plants but I don't necessarily discriminate against exotics."
- Rosemarie's Garden 2006
A humerous look into the world of "land management" from a newbie gardener.
Author: Rosemarie Location: northern Illinois"My goal for this blog is to document my garden this year, the 2nd year we are living in our new house. My personal goal is to become a pretty cultivated gardener; at the very least, I will come to understand the many plants and ecosystem that is living right outside my front door. For those who do read this, I hope you enjoy the journey through my garden and thank you for reading."
- Sweet Home and Garden Chicago
An artist and garden designer dishes the dirt on Chicago gardening.
Author: Carolyn Location: Chicago, IL "I didn't like gardening growing up on the farm because it was my job to tend the vegetable garden, which those of you who do this know that it is very labor intensive. And, after the vegetables are harvested, guess what ? They have to be preserved for winter which means canning up to a hundred jars of each vegetable. But little by little, the old green thumb that I left back in 'bama came back. As my children grew and I had more time on my hands I began in earnest to create a front and back garden. This is in the reach of everyone who wants to do it. One doesn't have to be a landscape designer to create a beautiful garden, all it takes is the desire, a little sweat equity , a modest budget, the ability to read and ask for help from professionals.
- The Casual Gardener
Gardening and Greening Tips brought to you weekly by "The Casual Gardener"
Author: Shawna Coronado • Location: Warrenville, IL • "Shawna Lee Coronado is an author, locally syndicated newspaper columnist, health, and greening expert focused on teaching and living a green lifestyle."
- The Dig-It-Yourself Garden
Applying a do-it-yourself philosophy to our Chicago garden
Author: J-Dog • Location: Chicago, IL • "My garden philosophy is: keep it simple and (hopefully) cheap. Why pay $40 for a tomato cage when I can make 20 of my own out of one $35 bail of fencing. I'm not that handy; I don't like power tools. But, with a little creativity, I try to get the most out of my small urban garden. Hopefully you'll find something here that sparks your interest or gives you an idea for your own garden. Thanks for reading!" This author used to write on Snappy Garden Blog.
- The Garden
when organic is not enough
Author: Josh Location: Rockford, IL Interested in permaculture, growing fruit trees.
- The Yarden
Urban, organic, awesome
Author: LaManda Joy • Location: Chicago, IL • "We want to teach everyone we meet how to grow vegetables . . . seriously!"
India
- Zazu's Garden
My personal journey towards greener living and self reliance
Author: Tara • Location: New Delhi, India • "My journey towards self reliance."
Indiana
- Container Garden 411
There’s a beautiful container waiting for you to create. Get Going!
Author: Theresa • Location: Indiana • "Container Garden 411 is about container gardening with flowers, food, fruit, shrubs, as long as it’s in some type of container. We cover the love of creating beauty this way, while sharing product information that helps one be a more effective container gardener. We give you any quick tips, talk about types of containers, planters, soil recipes, and anything else necessary. If you want to have the most awesome flower experience ever, you are in the right place."
- Gardening with God
I have named my blog, "Gardening with God", because I truly believe that all plants, especially herbs, are God's gift's to us. To enjoy, and in some cases, to cure our ailments.
Author: vonlafin • Location: Indiana •
- Girl Gone Gardening
A midwestern Slice of the American Dream- A traveler, walking an uncertain path you are welcome to follow.
Author: Girl Gone Gardening Location: Hammond, INNot only a garden but an ever growing menagerie.
- Greenbow
This is a journal of my gardening and other nature happenings at Greenbow as well as other places I visit. I hope you enjoy gardening, birds and nature as I see them.
Author: Lisa • Location: SW Indiana • "I like to garden, write, photograph, paint and talk about nature."
- Hoosier Gardener
An informed, yet personal take on natural gardening in Indiana and other dirty topics.
Author: Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp • Location: Indianapolis • "Info packed site with monthly checklists, lots of resources and help with gardening. My goal is to help you succeed so you'll keep getting dirt under your fingernails."
- Jim Shields' Garden Notes
Author: Jim Shields • Location: Westfield, IN • "This is a record of the day to day flowers and plants, in the garden, patio, and greenhouse here in central Indiana (USA). We are in Westfield, Indiana, a second-tier suburb of Indianapolis. [...] We have cold winters (USDA cold zone 5) and hot, humid summers. We try to grow interesting and unusal flowers here. Besides many daylilies (Hemerocallis), we grow native North American bulbs and exotic South African bulbs." See the Shields' Gardens Ltd website. - May Dreams Gardens
This is May Dreams Gardens because all year I dream of the days in May when the sun is warm, the skies are blue, the grass is green, and the garden is all new again!
Author: Carol Location: Zone 5, Indiana"We should all strive to sow, grow, and sustain good things in life's garden. I hope you enjoy these brief writings in this garden blog about my gardens, gardening adventures and occasional garden opinions, and are inspired to get out and do a little digging and hoeing in your own gardens, wherever and whatever they may be."
- Metaphyta
• The plant kingdom, gardening, and other sources of amusement and frustration in the natural world. •
Author: Arythrina • Location: Bloomington, Indiana • "Lots of pictures of plants, gardening successes (and some failures too!), pictures taken around town and out of town, and the occasional book review. The home garden is in Bloomington, IN but some work will definitely feature the Pacific Northwest as well... "
- Robin's Nesting Place
Author: Robin's Nesting Place • Location: Central Indiana • "I'm a former Alabama girl currently gardening in the great state of Indiana. I am by no means an expert gardener, but I love to nurture and grow plants and I love to surround myself with the beauty of God's wonderful creation. I'm focusing my attention right now on planting things to attract butterflies and birds to my gardens. I also love photography and my blog is a place to combine these two passions, both of which I am learning by trial and error."
- Seeds, Soil, and Hope
• A Beginner Gardener's Diary •
Author: katlow • Location: Evansville, Indiana • "We now live in an era of frugality and will continue to face hard economic times forcing many of us back to the basics. How do we do that when many of us have never lived this kind of life? This blog will capture one family's attempt to grow a successful garden with no previous experience in an effort to become more self sufficient while at the same time rebuilding hope and stability."
- Shields Gardens Home Page
- The Good Earth
Musings of a gardener, mother, and former marketing maven
Iowa
- An Iowa Garden
Gardening in a woods in eastern Iowa; a visual narrative.
Author: Don Location: Iowa City, IowaSaying this blog is about a garden in eastern Iowa is like saying the Sistine Chapel has some paintings on the ceiling. This guy has more different kinds of unusual plants than anyone else I know. For example, he probably has half a dozen different lady's slippers, which are native North American wildflowers that most gardeners would be pleased to grow one of. Every week I learn of new cultivars, species and sometimes even genera from reading Don's blog. And he's not snobby, either. Actually, he's downright funny. Yessirree, any gardener who names his 350lb angel statue "Hernia, . . . because that's what I think I got moving her" is my kind of gardener.
- Does Everything Grow Better in My Neighbor's Yard?
• Everything (and probably more) you ever wanted to know about my mostly Shady Yard/Garden. •
Author: Shady Gardener • Location: Southeast Iowa • "We moved to this location 5 years ago last October. We're in a hardwood deciduous woodland area. Lots of shade and a minimum of sun. This has proven to be an exciting challenge. I enjoy writing about my gardens and learning from others."
- Gardens by Kelly Productions
The youngest Master Gardener in Iowa
Author: Kelly D. Norris • Location: Bedford, IA • "Kelly is a freelance writer and Master Gardener from southwest Iowa. His passion and obsession with horticulture, plants, and gardening embodies nearly every function of his life." This site used to be called The E-Garden Almanac.
- In My Backyard
One of my favorite stories from childhood is "The Bluebird", I was fascinated that the children looked everywhere for the Bluebird of Happiness only to come home and find it in their own backyard;)
Author: Beverly • Location: Des Moines, IA • "I am a mother, an Army wife, a grandma, I love gardens, babies, books, my family and friends and dancing in the rain..."
- Pianolady's Gardens
Live outside, happiness is just a yard away!
Author: Pianolady • Location: Iowa • "If I'm not playing piano, I'm outside working in the gardens!"
- The Inadvertent Gardener
Need garden advice? Then you probably shouldn't send me an email.
Author: Eugenia Location: Iowa City, IA" I was born in Washington D.C. While there are plenty of people in the D.C. area with a penchant for gardening, I was not one of those people. I either over-watered or under-watered, and next thing I knew, whatever green thing I tried to coax along into healthy existence had withered and died. In September 2005, I moved to Iowa City. In April 2006, I decided to overcome my black thumb heritage and plant some herbs in a couple of pots. Next thing I knew, I had a garden. Let’s just say this: apparently, it’s amazing what I’ll do for a good tomato."
Ireland
- The Irish Oriental Garden
An oriental garden in Ireland, growing some tropical and sub-tropical flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Author: Barry • Location: Ireland • "The idea behind The Irish Oriental Garden is an attempt to communicate some practical gardening advice and examples of how to make changes on a budget by turning some of the old and unwanted into the new and fashionable. The blog will bring the reader up to date for the design and development of the garden for the previous 5 years. Once up to date, the blog will change to a ongoing development to include The Irish Oriental Garden and wider botanical aspects of Ireland. It is hoped that the readers will help with the content through dialogue and together perhaps we can solve some issues for other readers, as without the readers the blog is an empty shell, therefore the reader is respected as the prime contributor by interaction and commenting."
Italy
- The Balcony Garden
For all would-be gardeners who don't have a garden at hand ...
Author: Sue Swift Location: Milan, Italy "Firstly, lack of space. Where do you put your seeds and your cuttings? If you want to grow bulbs, biennuals and perennials where do you put the plants which aren't in flower to make space for those which are? And when you've finally got every inch crammed with plants, how do you get a chair in so you can sit and enjoy them? The position and amount of the sun is also a problem. Then, there's the lack of rain. This not only means that everything has to be watered by hand, with tap water that has an extremely high calcium content, but also that leaves don't get washed naturally. They get dusty and grimy and need cleaning so they can breathe. If you're a balcony gardener, you'll probably be able to add to the list. Gardening books don't seem to help much - they seem to ignore the specific problems and presume you're content to buy pre-grown plants from the garden centre at the beginning of the season and throw them away at the end. So, here's the alternative guide to balcony gardening - problems, solutions, successes and failures. Usually mostly failures, to be honest. But probably some other quirky stuff in between."
- VenicegardenBlog
the visual story of the garden I keep in lido of venice
Author: a gardener in venezia • Location: lido di venezia, Italy • "This is the story of my garden in lido of venice, 10 minutes by foot from the Adriatic Sea. I started to plan it in winter 2003/2004 inspired by a friend, even if this passion was sleeping since I grew tomatoes in my first vegetable patch in 1973. I changed it a lot during these years, moving perennials and bushes, planting and removing trees, making new paths and islands, creating a vegetable patch, planting fruit trees and bulbs and so on, trying to develop it with an humble eye to the masters: Piet Oudolf and the Wirtz above all. The thing is that I've done all the planting and keeping, I have to say with the help of the family and of some good local arms, living and working in Rome."
Japan
- Popcorn Homestead
Words about gardening, place, and whatever else seems relevant to my little life now being lived in the metropolis of Tokyo
Author: Joan Bailey • Location: Tokyo, Japan • "I blog about organic gardening and farming, food, and sustainable living both here in Japan and a little bit still about Michigan. I share what I learn and see around me, and sources of information that I think are useful, fun, or thought-provoking."
Kansas
- Landscaping and Lawn Care Ideas for Kansas City
• Growing Fertile Plants and Fertile Minds •
Author: Jeff Hamons • Location: Kansas City, Kansas • "Timely and helpful Lanscaping tips from a professional for gardeners all over the midwest."
Kentucky
- Garden Desk
Documenting happenings in my organic garden!
Author: Marc Location: northern Kentucky "Many years ago, I placed an old desk out in the garden. From that desk I would record observations of my garden with pen and paper. Now I record them here in this blog. So welcome to my new Garden Desk!"
- Kerry's Garden
The trials and tribulations of one Kentucky gardener…
Author: Kerry Location: Dry Ridge, KY
Louisiana
- Dig, Grow, Compost, Blog
Tracking the cycle of my gardening life
Author: Jean • Location: North Louisiana • "I've been gardening for 30+ years, the last 4+ years in north Louisiana. My current garden is 3 years old and it's a journey of discovery for me. I am a garden coach, master gardener, and work seasonally at a nursery. Please visit my website: www.thenaturalgardencoach.com."
- greenfish artist and gardener
My life and love of creativity and nature
Author:Laura Location: Covington, Louisiana "daily paintings inspired by various gardens and flowers, current interests and happenings in my own garden with some local flavor added in:swamps, food, art, etc..."
- Growing Groceries
• The Garden Blog of James Shoop •
Author: James Shoop • Location: Franklinton, Louisiana • "The Blog of a totally obsessed food grower. Focused on unusual and under-reported edible plants and my personal quest in developing Mad Growing Skilz"
Maine
- Four Green Acres
Life from scratch
Author: June, Birch, Blossom and Fern • Location: outside Portland, Maine • "We explore coming from the city and living in Maine, keeping chickens, homeschooling, cooking good food and trying to grow it, building a wood-fired pizza oven, wanting a goat but not wanting a goat enough (yet), reading wonderful books, stirring the compost, and taking time to smell the petunias."
- Garden Path: A Small Garden in Maine
a look at my garden and some of my other interests
Author: Sandy • Location: Southern Maine • "I have had a garden in since 1976. It has changed from a large vegetable patch, to an herb and perennial garden over the years. I like to try many different things, so each year my garden's shape changes a little."
- In the Garden
All things gardening and life!
Author: Tina, Lola, Skeeter and Dawn • Location: Tennessee, Georgia, Maine • "Daily posts with all things related to gardening and life and wildlife."
- Jean's Garden
A Gardener's Reflections
Author: Jean Potuchek • Location: East Poland, ME • "Jean's Garden provides the reflections of an amateur gardener on her garden and her gardening experiences, including both triumphs and tribulations. Jean is a flower gardener who grows mostly perennials, and does most of her gardening in East Poland, Maine."
- Maine Gardener
My garden blog for 2005.
Authors: Andrew Location: near Portland, Maine "I adhere to gardening with organic methods in raised beds. I primarily grow vegetables, however, I have been working on including flowers for a cutting garden. My thought is to share what I have learned in the garden. Hopefully this will serve to help others and perhaps get back some good advice in return." Looks like he's a good cook, too: recipes included.
- Pleasant Pond Farm
Gardening, barn and farmhouse talk from Richmond, ME.
Author: Sandra • Location: Richmond, ME •
- The Giddy Garden Gnome
A journal documenting the trials and tribulations of gardening on the rocky coast of Downeast Maine
Author: Giddy • Location: Gouldsboro, Maine • "Gardening fanatic! I love digging in the dirt (what little I have of it!) My zone 5 garden is located on 2 1/2 heavily wooded, rocky acres on the coast of Downeast Maine."
- The Gorham Garden
The continuing saga of a backyard vegetable gardener in southern Maine
Author: Chris • Location: Gorham, ME • "Ever since my Grandmother took me to visit my Great Uncle Lester's meticulously landscaped yard, I've wanted a garden worthy of him. Sadly, he's gone now, so I can't ask him for advice. It's up to a new generation of trial and error in the backyard. I have a garden that I share with my Mother-in-law, lovingly called Kronk. There are fourteen 4'x8' beds with my name on them in the sunniest part of the yard. My gardening credentials consist of lots of reading, trial and error, advice from the old guys (and my mom) and the repeated attempts I make at a homegrown buffet."
- The Inspired Garden
Twenty-Four Artists Share Their Vision
Author: Judy Paolini • Location: New England • "This blog tracks the gardening and art ventures of the artists featured in my new book, "The Inspired Garden: Twenty-Four Artists Share Their Vision."
Malaysia
- Garden Chronicles
My Love, My Life, My Dreams ... My Heaven, My Earth & My Joys ...
Author: James • Location: Selangor, Batu Caves, Malaysia • "These are the Chronicles of my little garden with all the matters of life, plants and nature that gives me inspiration."
- Tropical Gardening
• About a tropical garden in Malaysia, South East Asia. Maintained by an amateur gardener and his partner who make their own organic compost, grow flowers and vegetables, and have two dogs. •
Author: Julian • Location: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia • "I'm doing anthropological research on Malaysian blogs. I also like to do gardening, and keep a blog as a record of how the garden changes, and to share my experience with others. My partner, known here as WW (Wonderful Wife, Wonder Womyn, or Whipping Witch – depending on circumstances) also loves our garden and does much of the work."
Maryland
- A Bumblebee Garden
The story of a busy country garden, the food it inspires and the creatures who happen by
Author: Robin Location: Huntingtown, MD "I'd like to say that every day is a non-stop thrill here on Bumblebee Blog, with a knee-slapping incident to recount. In fact, it's curious how my idea of fun has changed over the years. Maybe you'll agree that some of what I see and observe is at least mildly interesting!"
- A Maryland Country Garden
Author: Julia Green Location: Maryland"I garden in an outer suburb of Washington, DC on 6.4 acres."
- Bumblebee Blog
Busy living the good life
Author: Robin • Location: Huntingtown, MD • "I’d like to say that every day is a non-stop thrill here on Bumblebee Blog, with a knee-slapping incident to recount. In fact, it’s curious how my idea of fun has changed over the years. Maybe you’ll agree that some of what I see and observe is at least mildly interesting! And no, my name isn’t really Bumblebee."
- Garden Rant
Uprooting the gardening world
Authors: Susan Harris, Michele Owens, Amy Stewart • Locations: (roughly) Washington, D.C., upstate NY, California • "We think that gardeners everywhere deserve better than the drivel they are handed by the mainstream media, and maybe we should stop complaining about those awful gardening magazines and TV shows and offer an alternative. Gardening: a serious subject for serious writers. Also, an amusing subject for amusing writers. Hear that, you bores at Fine Gardening?"
- Garden Shoots
A Landscape Designer Branches Out
Author: Melissa Clark • Location: Chevy Chase, MD • "My blog is about my interest in landscape design (my profession) and photography (of gardens and other things - my real passion)."
- Garden Variety
A blog for the Mid-Atlantic gardener by The Baltimore Sun's Susan Reimer
Author: Susan Reimer • Location: Annapolis, MD • "Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety. Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her. She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone."
- MacGardens
• A gardener's world from the hill on Ball Rd •
Author: John Willis • Location: Frederick, Maryland • "This blog is meant to my capture observations as an itinerant gardener on seven acres of stony hillside in mid-Maryland (Frederick County to be precise). We have a mixture of fields, overgrown orchard, and natural forest which has grown up over the last thirty years. In addition we spend a fair amount of time tending to perennials around the yard and a 5000 sq.ft. vegetable garden. Retirement has given me time to photograph the surroundings and to observe the healthy bird population that visits our mulberry and cherry trees. I continue to be fascinated by the things which have always been here (apparently) and are newly observed (like the orchard orioles this past year) and the things which are harvests from many years in