Take time to blog the roses

Take time to blog the roses
Gardening blogs offer advice, reflections, beauty and wit
By Kate KingCNN

Thursday, April 6, 2006; Posted: 2:09 p.m. EDT (18:09 GMT)

Where there's passion, you'll find blogs, and gardening is no exception. Gardening blogs range from serious dissertations on plants, soil and climate, to fanciful musings and poetry accompanied by artistic pictures of flowers.

Most of the blogs are not limited to gardens. The gardeners have lives beyond their flower beds, and they share their happy, sad and funny moments with their readers. Of course, there are many other blogs that are more official and exhaustive, and less personal.

One place to find links to scores of blogs is GardenWeb, an online resource for gardeners, which has a section called "Voices" that offers "clippings" from blogs and other online sources. Also, the Providence Journal's Sheila Lennon maintains a blog, Subterranean Homepage News, with links to a long list of gardening blogs, including descriptions and quotes.

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Some gardening blogs:

• John Andrews Thoughts
• Calendula & Concrete
• Sign of the Shovel
• Cincinnati Cape Cod
• Growing with Plants
• In My Kitchen Garden
• You Grow Girl
• Nancy's Garden Spot
• The Inside Dirt Blog
• Takoma Gardener
• Gardening and Yardening
• Garden Voices
• Subterranean Homepage News Garden Blogs