Cold Climate Gardening

In a previous post, I told you a little about the people I met at Spring Fling, the first national meet-up of garden bloggers, held in Austin, Texas on April 5th. Here are photos of some of the places we visited, along with my thoughts and observations. (Click on any photo for a larger version.)
Zanthan Gardens
This is what greets you when you go through the gate and enter the back garden at Zanthan Gardens.

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The day after I got home from Austin I started on my post about Spring Fling, the first national garden bloggers meet-up. I decided I was not going to go into a lot of detail, but just upload the best of my photos and comment on them. So I forgot that photos are the most time intensive part of a blog post. So I happened to have a lot of photos I wanted to comment on. So I realized that it’s going to be a whole week tomorrow since this event occurred, and I haven’t written a thing about it. So I’d better try a different approach. (This is it.)

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I just wrote a post for the Garden Bloggers Spring Fling suggesting that all attendees have some kind of card to trade at the meet-up. Moo mini cards are my hands-down favorite, but the price is kind of high.These cards are a great way to promote your blog
Even if you’re not going to the Spring Fling, you need to have a handy way to tell other people–relatives, friends, garden club members, even total strangers–about your blog without getting tongue-tied and without having to scribble the url on a scrap of paper.

Shoot, even …

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Just in case you’ve been hibernating and only now have begun to amble around the garden blog community, the Austin garden bloggers are organizing a meet-up for April 5, 2008. It will be a chance to solidify the friendships that have formed over the internet, enjoying some great gardens and Texas hospitality.

As I understand it, there are currently 24 garden-bloggers expected. If you’re sitting on the fence, perhaps my tips on finding cheap airfare will help. I couldn’t have made it myself without some generous gifts. I hope you’ll be able to join us.

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