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’s official. Dawn over at Owl Hollow News won the Grocery Gardening drawing. Congratulations, Dawn. I hope you enjoy the book.
What’s on your plate today? The weather here is sunny and at least not frigid. I’ll continue my early spring garden cleanup and also clean and repair bird houses. The bluebirds have made their return and are already checking out the real estate. What a joy to watch over my Sunday morning coffee.
Robin
I find this one of the most anxiety-producing times of the year in the garden.
As I head outside and begin the winter cleanup, the whole summer garden thing just seems incredibly overwhelming. There’s so much to do. And I’m just one person out there. Honestly, I felt like sitting down to have a good cry about mid-afternoon. But I managed to put one foot in front of the other and actually got a good amount of tidy-up work done. Tomorrow will be more of the same.
Thank you everyone who left a comment explaining how you approach reading and leaving comments on blog posts. The cumulative input has been extremely helpful. The overall consensus is that you’ll read comments if it’s an interesting discussion. You don’t usually subscribe to comments because it clogs up your email box. And you’ll only check back to see if the author has responded if you’ve left a question. That about sums it up.
On another note, I have selected by random number generator the winner of Grocery Gardening. She’s been notified. When she responds back, I’ll announce who she is.
Thank you everyone!
Robin Ripley
My lawn is a wreck.
I went outside to re-fill the bird feeders—AGAIN. The parts of my lawn that don’t look like the frozen tundra resemble a swamp. With every step I take my foot sinks down at least an inch. Walking to the feeders I can see my path in the mud.
I also see that we lost one small ornamental tree by the driveway as well as one of my rose trellises, which succumbed to the weight of the snow.
Spring better hurry up and get here. I have a lot of work to do.
Robin
Are you sick of everyone talking about the weather? I am too, but here goes…
There is so much snow on the ground, I don’t know when it’ll all melt. On top of that, much of it has iced to the extent that moving it from one place to another requires a pick ax. Walking in the back yard to fill the bird feeders is like walking on a bumpy ice rink. There are trees and bushes that need a bit of first aid to remove partially broken branches, but I don’t dare risk skating across the ice with my pruners. Not yet anyway.
Still, there is hope. Although we’re expecting snow flurries today, the weather should warm up into the forties in the next few days, providing some melting relief.
But really, all this unrelieved WHITE is getting to me!
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.