A few days ago I asked the question: Who are the most influential garden bloggers?
Thanks to everyone who commented here, by email and at my gardening column on Examiner.
The results are in. You can read them here.
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It was nearly 100 degrees while I was working outside today. I have a sliver of wood in my big toe, poison ivy and am covered in bug bites. Sometimes I think I need an easier hobby.
Robin
Holy moly, it’s hot. I was just outside providing drought assistance to the suffering greenery. Now excuse me while I cower here in the air conditioning for a bit before making dinner.
It has been such a busy work week. I have been chained to the desk. I can’t wait until the weekend. I have tomatoes to stake, flowers to plant, garlic to harvest, strawberries to keep in control, some clipping and pruning and, who can forget, weeding!
My friend Helen Yoest, from Gardening With Confidence, will be here in about 10 days. I plan to pick her brain and get advice about some real problem areas here. I was hoping for more time to prepare for an esteemed guest, but that’s just not to be. She’ll have to take me as I am.
I hope you’re all keeping cool.
Robin
You can’t pick up the newspaper or turn on the television without hearing more about the Gulf Coast oil disaster.
The wildlife population will be devastated for years, perhaps decades, to come. You can help with the conservation, monitoring and aid to the birds by donating to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. This is the top school and science center for birds in the U.S. and sponsor of many, many programs, including citizen scientist-type programs. If you cannot afford to donate, it’s a great place to just be informed or to get involved through volunteer activities you can do in your own back yard.
Robin
Tonight I am grateful for the internets.
Over dinner we were talking about blast-from-the-past music and then blast-from-the-past comedy. Harry and I explained how we would play stacks of 45s on the turntable to my 19-year-old son. And I remembered my parents’ Dick Newhart album and “Driving Instructor.” And while we were talking about old comedy, who can forget, George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words?” Ah, the things I am teaching my 19-year-old son! Yes, I taught him about seven dirty words!
I am also grateful that the chickens had walkabout time without destroying my garden this afternoon.
And I am grateful for that arms and shoulders P90X workout, although I will be sore again tomorrow.
Live the dream,
Robin
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February 5th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Hi Robin, this was an interesting question that made people think. I appreciate very much all the bloggers you mentioned, for we are a group helping each other, not one leader, although Pam influenced me and helped me get started blogging. I want to thank Tina for her kind words too, she is influential in her own right. Thanks for the link love and your hard work in the blogging community, Robin!
Frances
Frances
February 5th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Great Article and introduction to some blogs I didn’t even know were out there.
Thanks and keep up the great work.
February 12th, 2009 at 9:34 am
two sites that i highly recommend are:
http://awaytogarden.com/
http://www.gardeningblog.ne
not sure where the .ne domain is from tho?
February 14th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Great topic/wrap-up!
February 21st, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I’ve just discovered your blog while searching for ‘white fence around garden’! I read all your back-blog and now I’m craving more! I hope you post again soon; blogs like this are inspirational for beginners like me
February 24th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
The most influential to me personally were Kathy Purdy at Cold Climate and MSS at Zanthan Gardens. However I started blogging long ago when those two were among the few out there. I still they are among the best and the first to come to mind when I think “garden blogger.”
At the time Pam at Digging and Carol at May Dreams were not yet on the radar screen. However they have had a big influence on me too; mostly by showing how garden blogging could be a social experience as well as a journalistic exercise.
Nowadays there are so many good garden bloggers it is impossible to keep up with them. I think newer bloggers, and those who are still discovering blogs would have a different sense of who is influential.