Projo Subterranean Homepage News

Vacation was wonderful, thanks. More about that later, though. I'm plowing through two weeks of email and some site updates on features sections here, but the pressing need is to acknowledge and pass on to you the work of the garden bloggers I've neglected.

These will all be posted to the ever-growing Garden Blogs list.

Here are the first few from the latest crop, which is so large I'll be spreading them over several posts.

ToyTrains1’s Garden Journal is all about roses, and lilies, in Central New Jersey. That perfect bloom at right is a Queen Elizabeth.

Yard Piddling: A delightful note from gardener Gary Johnsey introduces this blog:

I enjoy your Subterranean Homepage News and really like visiting the sites you highlight. I have decided to ask you to take a look at my blog: http://yard.piddling.info
I live in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and am a professor at the Univ of So Ms. I expect to retire in 2 years and then spend lots more time in my yard and in the woods. I like to move plants back and forth and study their progress with camera in hand. I have been blogging almost a year now and am starting to hit my stride.
We have something else in common. For years now my students have called me Projo, a contraction for Professor Johnsey. I managed to register projo.ws which I use in support of my courses. (Someone else beat me to all the other projo names. I wonder who. Ha.)

At Welcome to My Garden, the grass is brown from drought in Minnesota, where it was 101 degrees Saturday. It won't always be this way, and Kathi's blog is more than that sad patch. She writes, "Gardening is my relaxation as well as my tie to my late parents. I learned gardening from my parents at a very young age and I am now passing that knowledge down to my son."
 
Garden Rant: Earthworm fan Amy Stewart, whose other garden blog is called Dirt, writes,

I'm blogging on a new group blog with with two very opinionated and outspoken garden bloggers, Susan Harris of Takoma Gardener and Michele Owens of Sign of the Shovel. It's called GardenRant and you can find it here: www.gardenrant.com
You'll see that in order to set the tone for the blog, we wrote a manifesto. Some of the highlights:
--We are bored with perfect magazine gardens.
--We are suspicious of the "horticultural industry."
--We are delighted by people with a passion for plants.

Yes...
Amy's current post there begins, "Has anyone noticed that the articles in Sunset magazine have started to read like press releases from the big ass nursery companies?"