Winter wildlife garden
I had a wonderful Christmas with my family and an amazing New Year with friends. I’m feeling so blessed!
I did have an unexpected forced absence from my computer, though. My hard drive picked that week to crash. No twitter, no Facebook, and no blogging.
I’m pleased to say that my computer has been returned to me in much better health, but a new hard drive means that I’m starting the year with a completely blank slate: no programs, no documents, no photos.
While I decide what programs I REALLY need to reinstall on my computer, and while I am so grateful that I actually remembered to back up the computer only a few days prior to the crash, here are some things that I missed around the web this week, and maybe you did too.
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Wendy Gabriel, of My Green Side, has pulled together a great list of 25 best green sites for 2009. I am so tickled that Ecosystem Gardening has made this list. Thanks Wendy! This is a good list of folks for you to read and learn. Follow @MyGreenSide
Alison Kerr has beat me to the punch in her review of Joe Lampl’s The Green Gardeners Guide. This is a great book to help you in making better decisions to green your garden. While you’re there, spend some time checking out Alison’s site Loving Nature’s Garden and follow her on Twitter @alisonkerr
The always insightful Helen Yoest has written a great article on What You Need to Know About a Plant before you put it in your garden. There are so many variables to consider, prime among them being a knowledge of the conditions in YOUR garden. Follow @HelenYoest
Gardening and the Good Life by Risa Edelstein is a wonderful resource. Check out 10 Garden Trends to Watch in 2010, where Risa makes a case for messy, organic, edible, sustainable, and wildlife benefitting gardening. I’m with Risa, let’s make this the norm in gardening standards! Follow @gardengoodlife
Lisa Gustavson is making me hungry. Check out her amazing indoor vegetable garden. Can you imagine eggplant, okra, peppers and tomatoes fresh from the garden in January? She can. Follow @getinthegarden
Kathy Green has given us a great retrospective of a full year in her Colorado wildlife garden. I’d love to see this garden in our Ecosystem Garden Showcase!
My email box is overflowing, I have hundreds of items in my RSS reader, and pages and pages of twitter posts to go through that accumulated while I was computerless, so more good stuff to come next week.
In the meantime, what’s in your garden? What are you planning for the coming year?
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Thanks for the great list Carole and for including me
I love Risa’s garden trends for 2010 article.
.-= Alison Kerr´s last post ..2009 Best of Loving Nature’s Garden =-.
Thank you for the mention, Carole, I’m honored to be included with such amazing ladies! Happy New Year and the best to you all in 2010.
Congratulations Carole! Thank you for all the links! I hope you had not lost anything important. I have just been through a similar crash and now have an auto back up. I am really glad I have found your blog and Wishing you all the best in this New Year! Happy 2010! Carol
.-= Carol Flower Hill´s last post ..Blotanical So Deer! Wishing All A Happy New Year . . . and Blooming Friday! =-.
Thanks so much for including me….it’s so nice that you are reading my blog – I am honored.
Ladies, thank you all so much! I read every one of your blogs and find great inspiration in the work you are doing. Here’s to a very successful 2010 for all of us!!!
Thank you so much for the mention! Here’s to a Happy, Healthy and Fabulous 2010!
.-= Wendy´s last post ..Green Tip – Invest in Experience Consumption =-.
Here, here!
Nice round up Carole, thanks for the link live. I hope you get Colorado wildlife garden in your showcase; but this was a great peak. H.
.-= Helen Yoest´s last post ..The Amaryllis Lives on in The Garden =-.
Hi Carole,
Thank you very much for including me in your list. I’m very honored, and blushing at the thought that my gardens would make your Ecosystem Garden Showcase. I guess I must be doing something right! Good luck with your computer, I am a computer nerd (pc’s only), so if you have a question, let me know and I will see if I can help you. Kathy
.-= Kathy Green´s last post ..Can Gardening Neutralize our Technology Crazed Carbon Buzz? =-.