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Garden bloggers tell their stories

– Posted in: Recommended Links

This past September, Stuart Robinson of Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas interviewed several garden bloggers to find out what got them started. Just in case you are as far behind in your reading as I am, the intro is here, and you can easily follow the links at the top of each post to find the [...]

Gardening Explained. On Film.

– Posted in: Garden chores, Recommended Links

News flash: There is a snowdrop that blooms in the fall, Galanthus reginae-olgae, Queen Olga's snowdrop. Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck, in the most excellent A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden, confirm that It does indeed bloom in the snow, the first snow, which generally comes about the last week [...]

There’s a Map for It

– Posted in: Recommended Links

Got this email today: About 6 months ago, Mapmuse.com began a project- the interactive mapping of garden centers and nurseries across the US. We initially researched and populated these maps ourselves, with the idea in mind that the public would subsequently add to, and enhance, the information we provided. We mapped each garden center or [...]

Gardening Group at LibraryThing

– Posted in: Book reviews, Recommended Links

If you're the type of person who pays attention to sidebars, you probably already know that I'm a member of LibraryThing. (Hint: it's a section called My Bookshelf, and it's only on the sidebars I thought most appropriate.) Over the summer, LibraryThing started a new aspect to their site called "Groups", which I didn't discover [...]

Blogging and Copyright Protection series by Lorelle

– Posted in: About this site, Blogging Art and Practice, Recommended Links

Several weeks ago on Garden Rant there was a small storm of indignation regarding the attitude expressed at a garden writers convention that what bloggers write was free for the taking without attribution. Most bloggers are flattered to be quoted, but instances of entire posts being republished somewhere else without permission, or even acknowledgment, are [...]