website_overhaul

Cold Climate Gardening has gotten a makeover! I've changed the wallpaper and rearranged the furniture again. Why can't I leave well enough alone? Well, why does anyone redecorate a room? To address problems and to make it look better--and because it's fun! And I figured out some ways to make it more enjoyable for you, [...]

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 [...]

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

Some photos are more interesting when cropped severely So many people expressed admiration for the header images that I decided to put them in the Cold Climate Gardening Flickr pool. You can view them here. It is a challenge to find images that are still interesting once you cut them down to 780x140 pixels. On [...]

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 [...]