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February 9, 2006

8 new garden blogs

It was January, and maybe my gardening brain was hibernating. Whatever, I'm sheepish about having neglected the news of garden blogs that arrived despite the short days and drab yards.

My apologies to these patient garden bloggers, who have each finally been added to the long-running Garden Blogs list.

Backyard Gardening is an informative Michigan garden blog, with photos, experiences and advice on favorite plants. Right now, Chris Beasley is propagating iceplants:

Iceplant is by far my favorite ground cover. It is hardy, quick growing, has attractive foliage, is drought tolerant, and pest and disease free. It also looks like a carpet of blossoms for most of the summer.

Chris writes, " I plan to cover mostly gardening, but some landscape design. My passions are flowers and perennials, particularly daylilies."

Sign of the Shovel: Michele writes,

I have two gardens--a town garden in Saratoga Springs, NY and a country garden in Salem, NY--which puts me firmly in the category of insane gardener.
I've been gardening long enough that advice bores me. What I want to read is a good garden story, the history of a particular place meeting a particular personality, with the occasional nod to the larger realms of sex, politics, and religion. So that is what I've decided to write in my blog.

Michele's blog posts are wonderful essays in a smart, funny voice.

JohnAndrewsThoughts is the name of a Knoxville, Tenn. garden blog. I'm jealous -- in January he was putting in strawberry plants. John writes,

This 1/2 acre property is about 20 years old and had little landscaping in the huge back yard. This blog is about the work I am doing to plant and fix up this garden.

The side yard provides parking for our RV, one of the main reasons for buying the house. The other reason was because there was no pool and no stairs.

Oh, well, that is where we begin. Now there is a 5 year plan under way to improve the garden, or better, build it from scratch.

Comments are absent to date, but welcome. My kids say do more pictures.

Real Food & Scandalous Gardening Secrets is Harvest McCampbell's garden and humor blog from Hoopa, Calif. (No, not Hoopla.) Hit the archives link on the bottom right for earlier posts.

Bifurcated Carrots: Heirloom gardening and the lives of Pat ‘n’ Steph is in Amsterdam. Not a tulip in sight there, though.That's a bifurcated parsnip at right.

Idaho Gardener "is meant to be a clearinghouse for informational on all things gardening in the intermountain west: people, plants, events," writes Mary Ann from the Treasure Valley.

The Joy of Gardening in Southern Ontario: David the Plant-o-Holic has a brand new blog. He's got a greenhouse growing up there -- a functional plastic-tent rectangle, by the looks of it, and is defying -13-degree nights.

A Midwestern Tropical Garden: Dave must like challenges -- he's growing tropical plants from seed in Iowa.

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