The weather outside is frightful, so time to catch up on all the gardening shows you missed. Here's some tips to get the most out of your viewing time.
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GardenStalking: A New Way to Browse Blogs
March 16, 2012 – Posted in: Interviews, Recommended LinksVeteran garden bloggers probably remember Garden Voices. "Back in the day"--before Twitter, before Facebook, even before Blotanical--it was the best way to find new garden blogs. Garden Voices is a blog aggregator, a website that collects--or aggregates--posts about a certain topic, so you can get an idea of what the blogosphere is saying about that [...]
How to Have Fun with the New Hardiness Map
February 5, 2012 – Posted in: How-to, Recommended LinksSince I just got done telling you what the new USDA Hardiness Map is not good for, I thought I should at least show you how to have some fun with it. Okay, not rolling on the floor laughing fun. Probably more like, "what can I do instead of my taxes?" fun. But, hey, fun [...]
Upstate Gardeners’ Journal: Read It Online for Free!
February 1, 2011 – Posted in: Interviews, Recommended LinksUpstate Gardeners' Journal, the regional gardening magazine for Upstate NY, now publishes all issues online, for free. This is terrific news for gardeners like me who don't live close enough to Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, or Ithaca to stop by a garden center and pick up a free print copy. I went to the Upstate Gardeners' [...]
Frost: The Least You Need to Know
October 6, 2010 – Posted in: FAQ, Recommended LinksStumbled across a link to an excellent synopsis of frost and its effects via @urbangarden. If you don't have a copy of A Gardener's Guide to Frost, this is the next best thing.
Cornell Site Helps Match Spring Bulbs With Early Perennials
September 2, 2010 – Posted in: Design, Recommended LinksIf you're like me, every spring you walk around the garden looking at the fresh leaves of emerging perennials, thinking that you should really plants some spring flowering bulbs nearby to take advantage of the lovely foliage. But I never write down my ideas, and I always forget. Fortunately, researchers with the Horticulture Department of [...]
Tree Survival Tips for Summer Heat
August 5, 2010 – Posted in: Garden Tweets, Plant info, Recommended LinksTree Survival Tips for Summer Heat via The Wired Gardener http://bit.ly/bvVLTi. The Wired Gardener is a newsletter, now become a blog, of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's McClean Library. It almost always has a link to an online gardening resource I hadn't heard about, and now includes helpful blog posts about current gardening topics, such as [...]
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2008
June 15, 2008 – Posted in: About this site, Colchicums, Recommended LinksPoppies, peonies, and iris: the three Grandes Dames of June In a cold climate, the gardening season is shorter and more compressed. By the time the spring flowers get going, boom! it's summer. Consider this: on May 29th we had our last frost. The next day it hit 80F (27C), which we reckon to be [...]
A Way to Garden: The Book Becomes a Blog
April 20, 2008 – Posted in: Book reviews, Recommended LinksI am sure I first read A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season in 1998, the year it was published. I may have been the first person to pull it off the library book shelf and take it home. It had everything I ever want in a garden book: great photos that [...]
In Paradise: Judy Miller’s new blog
February 26, 2008 – Posted in: Recommended LinksJudy Miller, owner of Paradise Gardens Rare Plant Nursery and occasional contributor to this blog, has started one of her own: In Paradise. If you've enjoyed her writing here, or if you garden in the mountainous west of North America, you'll want to check it out.
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