Seeding and Sprouting
March 8, 2010 – 12:58 pmbalconygardener.ca is getting ready for the 2010 growing season by uncovering a new look and some fresh new content. Big thanks to HT for his help, guidance and expertise in building the new site. I couldn’t do this without help from my friends.
My regular posts and links to others in the online gardening community are intact and growing.
On this new site you’ll find selected plant lists and photos of my balcony garden from 2001 through 2009. Get Gardening on a balcony includes flowers, alpines and ponds and over the summer will expand to include vegetables, fruit, roses and selected plant lists. Pots and Pieces is about hardscaping and inspiration and will grow to include not only basic info about containers and basic garden design, but inspirational garden people, places and projects. I’ve also got a new and growing stack of gardening books (really – can you have too many?) to read and review – starting this month with Gayla Trial’s Grow Great Grub. Her new 2010 book is full of great ideas for growing edibles in a small space, rooftop garden in the city. It’s a book that you’ll not only want to read but share with your gardening buddies.
I’ve got a start on an image library – but am still playing with it. My image feed from Flickr – a view from above – is active and available throughout the new site. And loading up the images from the 5+ years of regular posts is still happening, so the ‘blue box questions mark’ graphic should eventually disappear by the end of the week. So, as for many websites, it’s a work in progress and a labour of love.
Watch it grow along with my garden this year.