Tender perennials from seed...

fully grown and ready for their close-ups.

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Rose Gardening in Japan

A humble garden master displays a reverence for her roses

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From Poland with Love…

This week we forge ahead into eastern Europe...

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Reviving the perennial border...

...to survive the summer slump.

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Keep It Simple

Colorful, graceful shrub roses that are short on demands

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It’s June. Rose fever is spiking.

For week three in our month long series on roses, we stay closer to home with a cybervisit to our first American rose blogger, an obsessed rosarian in northern California. Here’s a blog for those who burn with a desire to acquire, grow and enjoy roses.

Family Portrait: Rosa multiflora, and Paquerette are actually Iceberg’s close ancestors. See the resemblance?

Thinking pink.

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More of the Roses

Continuing our search for the world’s most arresting rose blogs, we enter new territory, dropping in on a passionate garden designer in Denmark, a rose enthusiast in the Czech Republic and a transplanted Swede in Great Britain, who share a passion for roses.

www.rosesingardens.blogspot.com

Niels Ploughman, a Danish garden designer shares his love and passion for roses. This I one of my favorite sites and will be one of yours.

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Everything’s Coming Up Roses for June

People naturally gravitate to roses and June is the month we focus on them.

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Artists Gardens

Exhibiting artistry on canvas, on the loom, at the stove and in the garden.

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A Day of Garden Discovery

Friday, June 4

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Capturing the Spirit of the Forest

What sets woodland gardening apart from open area gardening?

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Lilacs

These hardy shrubs are vigorous trophies, even for black thumbs.

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Gardening in England

Meet the Cousins

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More IncrEdible Gardening Blogs

This post is a continuation of the list of edible landscaping blogs posted on March 23. If you haven’t read that initial post, you may want to refer back to it.

Here are three more outstanding blogs for anyone interested in vegetable growing.

noteworthy:

agrowingtradition.com
Thomas, an Essex County, Massachusetts vegetable grower is into sustainable gardening, farmer’s markets, and growing everything from...

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For Gardeners Passionate About Perennials

Here are three exceptional blogs, focusing on perennial garden design, planting and maintenance in the Spring and Summer months but covering other topics in the Fall and Winter, including bulbs, caring for trees and shrubs, and winter structure.

gardeninggonewild.com

Created by two garden industry professionals from Pennsylvania, Fran Sorin is an author and CBS radio Garden News Contributor, who also writes for USA Today. Nancy Ondra lives in Bucks County and gardens on four acres under the supervision of two alpacas, Duncan and Daniel. She is an...

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Where Botanical Beauties Strike A Pose

This is an offbeat but inviting blog, built to highlight structurally interesting trees, flowers and shrubs. PlantWerkz is dedicated to the architecturally beautiful plant, defined as “a plant that commands attention to itself, causing all background to fade away in its presence.” That’s quite a description.

You’ll find a Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) from the Mohave desert, Bottle Trees (Brachychiton rupestris) from Australia and a Water Banana (Typhonodorum lindleyanum) from Singapore, though it is a native of Madagascar.

Joshua Trees, Bottle Trees via PlantWerkz

Don’t miss both of the Special Features at the top...

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Garden Designers with a World View

Here are two exceptional garden blogs, offering posts that expand our view of all things horticultural. While these designers live and work in the U.S., their reporting often reaches beyond our borders.

new & noteworthy:

josephhillenmeyerandassoc.wordpress.com
Born into a horticultural family with roots in eighteenth century France and Germany, this Kentucky native has worked everywhere from New Zealand to western Turkey to Tennessee and back. His manner is warm and approachable; his perspective is...

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Sages of the Soil

For those who love garden writing, blogs by gifted writers who happen to be skilled gardeners offer insights you won’t find anywhere else. Besides, garden writers know the best dirt. Make the connection with three of the best gardening blogs anywhere, all deserve bookmarks.

awaytogarden.com
A former editor of Martha Stewart Living, Margaret Roach is an accomplished gardener and an even more accomplished writer. A joy to read. Bookmark this site.

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IncrEdible gardening blogs

Having a kitchen garden teaches one to appreciate the quality of home-grown fruits and vegetables. What’s more, there’s a deep satisfaction in growing them.

The taste of fresh lettuces, tomatoes, sweet baby peas, asparagus and mouth-watering corn makes all of the effort worthwhile. And let’s not forget those easy-to-grow fragrant herbs to add in cooking.

If fresh fruits and vegetables are your passion, have a look at these savory selections, representing the best blogs in organic edible gardening.

Gardeners from the deep South and the...

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Celebrating More Than One Irish Saint

This week the world celebrates St Patrick’s Day, the feast day of the most commonly recognized of the patron saints of Ireland.

Do you know the other two? Hint: both are patron saints of gardening; one resides in heaven, the other resides in Dublin.

You probably know St Fiacre, the patron saint of gardeners and florists. You’ll want to know Helen Dillon, Ireland’s greatest gardener.

Helen has devoted her entire adult life to collecting rare and unusual plants, networking, teaching, writing, and lecturing, not only in Ireland and her ancestral Scotland, but around the world, helping novices and professionals become better gardeners.

Her miraculous town garden in the Ranleigh district of South Dublin manages to do the impossible, combining...

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Between the covers

From time to time, I plan to introduce exceptional books

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Seed Starting

Why growing tender perennials from seed is worth the effort.

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Cybergardening: The path to becoming a better gardener

LET ME BEGIN with a simple observation. At this moment, you are making use of the most powerful gardening tool you’ll ever own. With the click of a mouse or the stroke of a key you will gain entry to a world of private gardens, learning from the master gardeners and self-taught specialists whose candid advice, humor and expertise are presented in the blogs and websites you are about to discover.

There are no borders to cross and no barriers restricting you from entering these breathtaking destinations, or preventing you from peering into the hearts and minds of their makers. Time and money are not issues. So, what are you waiting for?

Since trawling the web can be addictive and time consuming (I have spent the past 12 months doing just that), I’ve listed...

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Gerard Pampalone

I am not a professional garden designer, landscape architect or horticulturalist. I am, for the most part, self-taught.

I don’t garden for a living, I live for gardening.

I came to gardening late in life, so I am making up for lost time.

I hope to share my insights, resources, and gardening experiences in the coming months.

My aim is to educate, enlighten and inspire gardeners to take chances, break new ground, dig deeper and stretch themselves.

As seen in:

Westport Magazine, July 2007
athome Magazine, March/April 2008

Glorious Gardening Blogs

Advice

• Gardenology.com
• New York Botanic Garden

Architectural Plants

• PlantWerkz

Artists' Gardens

• An Artist's Garden
• Bliss
• Garden Delights

Edible Landscaping

• A Chef in the Garden
• A Tasteful Garden
• Daphne's Dandelions
• Our Happy Acres
• A Growing Tradition
• A Suburban Farmer
• Eat the Yard

Garden Designers

• The Dillon Garden
• Joseph Hillenmeyer
• Studio G

Garden Photography

• Stacy Bass Photography
• The Photo Garden Bee

Garden Writers

• A Way to Garden
• Overplanted
• What were the Skies Like

Gardening in England

• The Galloping Gardener
• The Idiot Gardener
• The Patient Gardener

Gardening in Poland

• Ewa in the Garden

Perennial Gardens

• Gardening Gone Wild
• Jean's Garden
• Dirt Therapy

Rose Gardening

• A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose
• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden.
• Tyra’s Garden
• Roses in Gardens
• A Rose Garden
• Among Roses and Thistles
• Roses from A to Z
• Rose Notes
• Ombra mai fú

Woodland Gardening

• Deb's Garden
• Tulips in the Woods

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