Lots of good news in my neck of the woods. For starters, I’m graduating from the Master Gardener training program this weekend, so on Saturday I will officially be a certified Master Gardener. I should be able to share more details about some other good news soon. This week was also good in that there were tons of great garden blog posts to share. You can really tell that Spring is getting into full swing!
Great Blog Reading
- Jayme over at aHa Modern Living has some creative ideas for gardening in small spaces.
- Kerry has an idea for creating a living flower arrangement for $10, sounds like a much better idea than dropping $40 this Sunday on a bouquet of flowers for mom.
- A talented container gardeners, Kimberly has some new pots to show off in shades of silver, red and orange.
- Garden designer Jenny Peterson interviewed the staff at her local nursery to find out their favorite plants.
- Adriana reviewed Womanswork gloves. Check out the video of her husband using the gloves, guess they’re tough enough for men too.
- Newly minted Angeleno, Mike is already hard at work planting up his balcony and making good use of self-watering containers. Smart move in a hot climate like ours.
Don’t Forget!
This month’s blog carnival topic is container gardens as wildlife habitats. This is such an important thing for us to consider, I hope to be flooded with great posts from you guys!
Also, Timber Press is giving away a garden center gift card and signed copies of Debra Lee Baldwin’s books on succulent gardens and succulent container gardens. Y’all know how highly I think of Debra’s books. To enter, simply upload a photo of a succulent container that you created and share the link in the comments of this Timber Press blog post.
Umzugsgesellschaft
Photo by Knoten-Susi
I admit that this photo first caught my attention in the LOTB Flickr group because of the really long German title. What is a Umzugsgesellschaft, I thought? Well, with the help of Google Translator, I think it means “moving company.” I wonder what a moving company has to do with these little seedlings? Any guesses?
Container Gardening News
- In unfortunate news, Scotts-Miracle Gro reported that it’s second quarter profits rose 53%
- Pretty thorough overview of growing fruits, vegetables and herbs in containers from Berks-Mont News.
- Check out this container idea published in the Lincoln Journal Star featuring a climbing nasturtium. Might have to thry this one out too.
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congrats on the upcoming graduation! and thanks again for all the link info!
Thanks for the shout out! Womanswork also makes men’s gloves. They’re called Manswork. Those are the gloves H tested.
Congrats on all the great things happening in your life! You deserve it!
Thanks for the pimpage, Fern! ; ) Local nurseries and their staffs are a great resource for us all–we have 3 major independent nurseries in Austin (2 smaller ones went out of business this past year). My only complaint is that they’re all on the south side of town, and I live way up north!
I enjoy the grab bag posts! A good way to round out the week and learn something new. Glad that YOU scour the internets so that I don’t have to!
Shall I reveal the mystery then (about “moving company”)?
Definitely Susanne!
Congrats on completing your program! BTW- always love looking at the grab bag links…
It’s simply because I moved them from windowsill to the unheated greenhouse on the balcony that day. And they will move again to their final destinations, potted & along the red brick wall, in a few days…
… that is, if spring’s coming back at all. Feels more like autumn these days.