February 12, 2007
Weblogs, Podcasts and Radio broadcasts
| One suddenly realised that weblogs, even in the gardening world, have become a force to be reckoned with. Weblogs are personal diaries of events on a day to day basis. Of course, in general, many are trite or of dubious content; a few have become political statements in themselves such as the Baghdad Blogger. Here is a listing of some of the more interesting, high quality blogs in the gardening world. | ||||
| Blogs | ||||
| Garden Rant - 'Uprooting the Garden World' - wonderful! | ||||
| Garden Voices - great garden clippings from around the web. | ||||
| UBC Botanical Garden Weblog - News from the world of plants - a high quality resource for discussions on some of the latest contentious issues in the garden world. | ||||
| Horticultural - Jane Perrone's organic allotment and garden blog - see Bette Midler on Gardening! Interesting and informative blog. | ||||
| The Times' online garden blog - written by Jane Owen who is also author of Gardens Through Time (BBC books) with Diarmuid Gavin. | ||||
| Transatlantic Plantsman - Plants, plant combinations, books and magazines about plants, more stuff about more plants - from both sides of the Atlantic from the famous Graham Rice - author of the excellent Encyclopedia of Perennials | ||||
| The Plant Hunter - New Plants - Tim Wood is a Modern Day Plant Hunter and horticulturist. He travels the globe to find new and interesting plants with unique garden potential. In his blog Learn about new and interesting garden plants as Tim shares his unique insight as to why each is special and worth growing. | ||||
| Head Gardener at the Manor - The gardens at Toddington Manor in Bedfordshire currently have 5 gardeners. Linette, the Head Gardener gives a year round insight as to what we get up to day to day. | ||||
| Head Gardeners Blogs on the BBC Gardening website. | ||||
| Un jardin habité - A garden to live in - | ||||
| Unusual & exotic plants blog - Urban Jungle and Gardening news - even though it really relates to their nursery, they have some good quality information and advice. | ||||
| Wiggly Wigglers Blogspot - Heather's personal blog where you can read Heather's show notes and get more information about the stories covered in the Wiggly Podcast. | ||||
| Acorns - you and the world of plants - a more personal blog and podcast. | ||||
| Invasive Species Weblog - covers all invasive organisms, including plants. | ||||
| Invasive plants in Arlington - Invasive's man lives near and volunteers at Long Branch Nature Center in Arlington, Virginia. He spends what sometimes seems like too much of his free time working on non-native, invasive plants. | ||||
| Pollenatrix - Botanical discipline, daily!! I didn't know that S&M extends to botany! | ||||
| A Study in Contrasts - the mostly garden-related musings of a transplant living near the sandy shores of Lake Erie. | ||||
| My Tiny Plot - an interesting blog about vegetable gardening and seasonal cooking. | ||||
| Tree Trends - a forest biology weblog by Tom Kimmerer. | ||||
| Podcasts | ||||
| Gardening podcasts at Garden-Helper.com - Your Garden Podcast Resource | ||||
| Gardens Illustrated Podcasts - 2006 Gardens Illustrated Lecture with world-renowned gardener Beth Chatto in conversation with designer/plantsman Dan Pearson. | ||||
| Wiggly Podcast - here is what gardening podcasts should be - wonderful, informative - want a reason to investigate podcasts, this is it. | ||||
| Land Stewardship Project - listen to this projects audio magazine - more agricultural than horticultural but an excellent site. Good explanation of what is involved in podcasting as well. | ||||
| Radio Broadcasts | ||||
| Gardener's Question Time - BBC Radio 4 - where you can download the latest. Roy Lancaster is said to have around 1000 varieties in his quarter acre garden - how many are there in this one? | ||||
