Blog edition. The whole newsletter is here.
Urban Gardening on the Web
- The Fight for School Gardens and Healthier School Foods highlights crazy anti-food rules in one county and a big legislative push in D.C.
- A Manhattan designer explores the native/exotic dilemma in "Designing the Politically Correct Garden". Great comments and absolutely NO consensus.
- Great discussion ensued over street trees, especially "When Greens go NIMBY" over them. And more about street trees here.
- Chicago's Mayor Daley pushes green roofs, as reported on The Growing Edge.
- Does this count as urban gardening? It's How to Love thy Neighbor, Post-Blizzard.
- Corporate Urban Greening, no Greenwashing Allowed highlights great projects in Baltimore and D.C.
Sustainable Gardening on the Web
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Martha Stewart gets Fact-Checked by Hort Professor – and I'm so glad they're helping us non-academics figure it all out.
- Are Natives the Answer? asks Garden Prof Bert Cregg. His own answer is: "Not necessarily." Provocative stuff!
- The White House Grounds ARE Greening – and it looks like ALL federal landscapes will soon be greened up, too.
- Good news from EPA – plus good news about the overturning of a bad EPA move.
- I reviewed "The World According to Monsanto" and found it really important, but dull watching.
- Are your spring bulbs coming up already? Not to worry, says gardening educator Gene Sumi.
My So-Called Second Career
I'm pretty excited about the garden-related trips I'll be taking this year. First to Long Island to visit Suzy Bales with a day trip to the NY Botanic Garden in the spring. And I wouldn't miss the super-fun Blogger Meet-up in Buffalo. Then the GardenRanters are talking to garden centers at their shinding in Chicago. I'm also pondering a trip to the Boston area, and still undecided on going to Dallas for the Garden Writers conference.
Round-ups are Fun
- The Hottest Garden Rants of '09 were hotter than ever.
- Here's my review of the Renegade Gardener's Black Spot/High Spot Awards for '09.
- Also on GardenRant, Elizabeth's Year in Gardening.
- Top Sustainable Food Stories of 2009 include the White House Kitchen Garden, and lots about urban farming. Food stories are increasingly food-growing stories.
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Before/after clearing snow from an 'Ogon' spirea.
- Berries for Bloom Day- coz what else are you going to show off in mid-December?
- And in my neighborhood, the low-maintenance, New-American-Garden-style Priscilla's garden. For locals, it's the garden of Priscilla Labovitz and Joe Cirincione, experts in immigration law and nuclear arms control respectively.
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