Along with the arrival of bulbs, primroses, hellebores, and scilla we here at Plantswoman Design are greeting spring with a new way to communicate. To all our customers, friends, colleagues, and fellow gardeners welcome to our blog! Blogging is a fairly new phenomenon to me but I am loving what a great opportunity it is to share information and connect with like minded people. Kind of like a dating site without the angst. 🙂
So, why in the world would I start a blog? I’m glad you asked…
I get excited when going out into my garden at all times of the year and I want to share what is happening there. This past February I got a chance to chat with many gardeners at the NWFGS and it was so fun to hear about their experiences, methods, and what other gardeners were growing. I love that! I also get excited about new plants, new methods of gardening, old methods of gardening (that I know nothing about), what made it through a mild winter, wet winter, cold winter, etc. This is a great place to explore just that! My favorite thing about gardening is that you are always learning. No one person knows everything about gardening. Even Dan Hinkley doesn’t know everything and I love that too. I hope this becomes a place we can learn, ask dumb (and not so dumb) questions, and share what you know.
As we dive into social media head first we invite you to take the journey with us! In addition to our new blog we will be up and running on Houzz and Pinterest soon. We are so excited to have so many ways to talk and share with you all we can hardly contain it! I hope you look forward to our weekly blog posts as much as we look forward to hearing from you.
So, tell me, do you read blogs? What do you like about them? What don’t you like so much?
Lets go get dirty fingers and muddy knees.
Welcome to the world of blogging! I’m looking forward to reading your weekly posts. I read a lot of blogs. They are a great way to interact with other gardeners around the country. Local bloggers taught me a lot about this region when I first moved here. Bloggers themselves are all really nice people, so generous.
Thanks for the encouragement Alison. I’m excited to try it out. I really enjoy all that is gardening and in fact spend my work day doing it, off time doing it and even visit gardens while on vacations. I think I may be addicted. I started gardening in ernest when my kids left home, then made a career out of it. I wanted to nurture something and watch it grow. Kind of a continuation of my raising kids, seeing baby plants (from forest farm and plant delights) turn into big beautiful plants.
You are amazing, I can’t believe you are doing this. Good for you. I don’t know how you have time. Love the blonde ambition grass. You should also. 🙂
I have written blogs professionally for two large companies…one caused a publisher to give me a book contract. So it’s with a little authority that I say: this looks to be a great blog! Excellent writing and lovely photos. Do you take the photos yourself? PS thanks for the terrific job your crew did here last week!