I also wish there was a local site like yours for our area. I’m still discovering the local nurseries and so that’s an especially good feature.

Another suggestion- Current events that might interest gardeners. If there’s a lecture coming up, a show at the botanical garden, volunteer events, a good program on public TV, etc.

This place was developed in the early seventies. I’m pretty sure before then it was wetland. Sigh.

But at least our run-off stays local and doesn’t disappear down some storm drain.

I have a five foot cut through a border that is a dry stream in self defense. I was continually losing mulch in that spot, and rather that do an extensive fix on the grading of the site (which would require some interesting work, since we are nearly flat and only about 12 inches off the water table…) I dug the swale, lined it with discarded carpet, and then put down a combination of river rock and 3/4 pebble.

Looks picturesque, and creates decent short-term workaround for an annoying problem.