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April 4, 2006

Garden blogs: New additions to the bloomin' list

These bloggers grow, photograph, get the rest of us going and still have time to write about it all. I'm in awe of them.

They've all been added to the perennial Garden Blogs List, with my thanks for their taking the time to let me know about their blogs.

Uncle Tom's Garden is written by Jeanne Medina, from the San Francisco Bay area (probably not in the city, she keeps chickens!) Great photos, inspiring me to ...plant now!

I have a jolly buddha in my garden bed, too.

Gardening with Rare Plants: Matt Mattus of Worcester, Mass., writes,

As a certified plant geek, I decided to start a blog for those plant enthusiasts who have started to become plain-old bored. Bored with Hosta, bored with Daylilies and maybe bored with all the banality at the local garden centers and Home Centers. Gardening has been discovered by the Mass. retailers, and suddenly, everyone has exactly same material. It's Gap meets Supertunias!

Also, I avoid the trendy garden pants. So no Galanthus, or Hellebores, I want to provide information that reaches another tier, the next generation of enthusiast. These are the plants that I grow in my greenhouses and large garden.
Clearly, this site isn't for anyone, inspire gardeners who have some some plant knowledge, and greater, to explore a whole new world of plants. I call it Exploraculture.

My wish would be that gardeners who seek excellence, can again feel the excitement that they once had when they first started discovering plants.

I know exactly what he means. Everybody has exactly the same few varieties, and these are exactly what most people are asking for. I have been on some streets where everyone had the same color azalea bush from one end to the other.

Go see what Matt's raising.

In My Kitchen Garden: Susan from Missouri writes,

I would love to have my new gardening blog added to your list. It is called In My Kitchen Garden (inmykitchengarden.com ) and is an offshoot of my food and farm blog, FarmgirlFare.com. I recently started it as a personal gardening journal so that I could have a record of what goes on in my large raised bed, organic heirloom garden, but it is already blossoming into much more than just that.

I am a 37 year old Northern California native who escaped to the country life in 1994. I now naturally raise everything from llamas and lettuce to sheep and Swiss chard on my 240-acre remote Missouri, USA farm.

If you're trapped in a cubicle, Susan is probably living your fantasy. Nice blog, as is her food and farm blog.

Nancy's Garden Spot: Nancy in Houston has tomatoes on a plant planted in July that overwintered and "just won't quit." Here in New England, I can't imagine that.

Even more interesting, Nancy is a teacher recovering from spinal surgery:

I could work in my garden a little. If I sat in a small stool, I could gingerly lean over and weed a little, and dig a hole with a long handled scoop before I plopped in a bedding plant. I couldn't do many at a time, but I was happy when I could do it.

This is from a post last month in which she shares some of her story. It's worth a read. Nancy, I hope you have the school begging you to come back and tell them about your marvelous gardens and how you grew them.

In the garden with Humblesnail: Great blog name. Rhondi in Olympia, Wash., has a Tuscan garden gate.

Reading Dirt: Karen Bledsoe writes, "This is a blog for literary gardeners, reviews of garden books and garden-related literature, as well as news from my garden and the gardening world in general. And a rant or two, just for good measure." Karen gardens, writes and teaches in Oregon.

Sigruns German Garden: Liz Donovan, a blogger at the Miami Herald, sends word of this blog, saying, "It came to me thru
a comment on my photo blog. Sort of neat..." It seems to be Sigrun's photos of others' gardens, largely in England, but they're very nice and good inspiration if you need to get yourself going on this year's garden.

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Posted by: Sigrun on April 4, 2006 7:25 AM