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Scavenger Hunt Winners

– Posted in: About this site

A big thank you to everyone who took the time to enter the Scavenger Hunt, which I organized to help celebrate the new design here at Cold Climate Gardening. I hope you all had fun as you hunted for the clues. The prizewinners have all been notified by email, so I'll give the rest of [...]

Hardy Succulents: Book Review

– Posted in: Book reviews

As Saxon Holt, photographer for Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate by Gwen Kelaidis pointed out yesterday, hardiness is relative. I remember early on in the life of this website, learning that someone from Australia had found my blog searching for hardy plants. Since, according to this map, the coldest zone in Australia, a [...]

Hardy (where?) Succulents

– Posted in: Book reviews

Saxon Holt is the photographer for Hardy Succulents. He shares his perspective on the book in this guest post. What exactly is a hardy succulent ?  How tough is tough ?  How cold is cold?  How can  a garden book cover cover the entire country ?  All these questions come to mind every time I [...]

Scavenger Hunt with Prizes

– Posted in: About this site

I've always had the suspicion that most of my readers don't realize how much else I offer on this website in addition to this blog, so I thought I'd celebrate the "grand re-opening" of Cold Climate Gardening with a scavenger hunt that will encourage you to explore my website more thoroughly. Prizes, We Have Prizes [...]