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New Design for Cold Climate Gardening

April 6, 2009

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

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Cold Climate Gardening garners a Mouse and Trowel nomination

April 26, 2008

Thank you for nominating this blog for Best Garden Blog Design. I’ve put a lot of thought and hours into the design, and I’m pleased that you appreciate my efforts.
According to the Mouse & Trowel website, “the Mouse & Trowel Awards were created by freelance writer and garden blogger Colleen Vanderlinden to honor and reward [...]

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How New Media is Impacting the Future of Gardening

January 3, 2008

One nice thing about the GWA Symposium is that most of the meals are donated by various member businesses. But we all know there’s no such thing as a free lunch, or a free breakfast, for that matter, so you probably already guessed that the business that pays for breakfast thereby procures the opportunity to [...]

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Blogging Art and Practice: The website

October 16, 2007

I’m starting a new website to explain blogging and related technical matters in plain English. It’s called Blogging Art and Practice.
There are some things about blogging that involve technical skill or know-how. I call those practices. I strive to use the best practices, to make my blog easier for people to read, for search [...]

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A Tour of Cold Climate Gardening: What Changed on This Website and Why

March 4, 2007

Boredom isn’t enough to motivate me to redecorate my walls or my website
“Why are you changing your design?” some of my children asked, as I was making preparations for the Big Day. I could have said, for the same reason many people re-paint their walls or buy a new dress: tired of the same old [...]

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Website changes ahead

February 27, 2007

I have just upgraded WordPress again. This time it combined link categories and post categories, so quite a few things need to be tinkered with. I will also be changing my theme shortly. Actually, I am going to change the theme first and then tinker, otherwise I’ll be tinkering twice. Sigh. The bottom line is, [...]

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