By December I find myself doing more reading about gardens than actual gardening. Often, I turn to fellow gardening bloggers for good ideas. Gardening blogs originate from all over the world and provide knowledge, fact, conjecture and inspiration from the lives and experiences of gardeners from all walks of life. Among the many, a few Seattle originals stand out.
Riz’s Nextgenerationgardener.blogspot.com: I flush green with envy over Riz’s experiences seeking out rare plants. Fortunately, he not only propagates and sells rare treasures from his Shoreline, WA nursery, but through his blog he also provides us a way to join his adventures. Riz tells me most readers respond to his step-by-step “how to” posts. But, plant geeks like me will find his unique perspective on “Rare and unusual, and reliable plants for Pacific Northwest Gardeners” reading we just can’t put down.
Willi’s Digginfood.com: Willi is the West Coast Editor of Organic Gardening magazine and a favorite gardening radio personality on KUOW 94.9. Willi was inspired to start her foodie-focused gardening blog one day after “… I was harvesting some greens. I was thinking about what I was going to make for dinner and I realized that I read tons of gardening and cooking blogs, but none of them focus on my favorite thing to do: cooking with food fresh from the garden. So I decided to create a site where I could blog about what was happening in my garden and kitchen…” When you visit her site, be sure to grab the butternut squash taco recipe!
Karen’s Greenwalks.wordpress.com: Enthusiastic amateur gardener Karen started her blog because, “I wanted to showcase the creativity and ingenuity that Seattle gardeners have recruited in their efforts to garden in the parking strip…I hoped to inspire others to dig up their boring grass and utilize a heretofore blank canvas…” This is a fun blog filled with big images illustrating various ways Seattleites can take their gardens all the way to the curb.
Editor’s note: This article was written by Robin Haglund, CPH, founder of Gardenhelp.org in the December 2009 issue of American Family Magazine.

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