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Soooo. Um. Yeah. I kind of forgot to post the Baby Boomer search results. Sorry. Better late than never. I hope…
If you remember, following a Garden Writers of America presentation on Gen Y Gardeners, there was quite a brouhaha on the internets about whether Gen X & Y were gardening, joining gardening associations, where they were [...]

After a less than pleasant exchange with an author last July, I vented on Twitter and jokingly said, “FYI. If you even think of mentioning black plants, author Karen Platt will demand that you cite her book. Apparently she invented them.” I’ve gone back and forth about publishing a more detailed post, because quite frankly, [...]

I hope you have your TiVO remote handy, because in 10 days (and counting!) PBS will be airing a documentary based on Michael Pollan’s book The Botany of Desire. The show airs on October 28th at 8pm on your local PBS channel, just in time to provide a plant fix as gardening outdoors winds down. [...]

In case you missed it, I published the results from the Gen X & Y Gardener survey earlier this morning. I learned a lot about surveying people in addition to what my contemporary gardeners are doing and thinking about when it comes to gardening. I can’t thank enough the people who participated and helped spread [...]

In the last few months it seems like there has been growing tension between Generations X & Y (i.e. people born roughly between 1965 and 1990) and the Baby Boomer generation. Instead of debating what Gen X & Y think about gardening, I thought it would make sense to just come out and ask.
If you [...]