Blog Profiles: Gardening Blogs, Volume 2
Welcome to Blog Profiles! Each week, we select a topic and handful of blogs that do a great job contributing to the conversation. Here’s our second roundup of some standout gardening blogs. Do you have a blog that deserves recognition? Tweet our writers at @BeyondBylines.
I make terrariums.
I’ve created a great many for friends and family. I enjoy making tiny greenhouses because they’re land-locked — it’s amazing the tiny jungle you can squeeze into a container.
In the spirit of gardening — albeit in miniature — I wanted to cover gardens and yard blogs that carry out gardening to the level that I wish I could.
Gardening is clearly one of our favorite blog topics. View Volume 1, Volume 3, and Volume 4 for even more green-thumb-friendly content.
1. The Yarden
“Walk the garden path with me,” writes LaManda Joy, a Peterson Garden Project founder, award-winning Illinois Extension Master Gardener, author, and speaker.
Joy, who lives in Chicago, spends her time “evangelizing about food gardening education and community garden programs as a way toward empowerment, self-sufficiency, and community.”
Posts that caught my eye: Five (Make that 10) Heirloom Tomatoes We Can’t Live Without and 15 Tips for Trough Planters.
Follow @TheYarden on Twitter.
Credit: @theyarden on Instagram
2. Growing with plants
Growing with plants is my kind of place. It’s a “seasonal journal of original, practical, and inspirational garden projects.”
Honestly, what’s not to love?
The blog is written and managed by plantsman Matt Mattus. Here’s more about him: “Mattus has been involved with horticulture throughout his career, which began as a kid aged 9 years old who wandered into Horticultural Hall after a weekly piano lesson in the city and who decided that he too could grow marigolds and exhibit them! By age 10 he was exhibiting as a ‘junior exhibitor’ in the many plant society shows held at Worcester County Horticultural Society’s Horticultural Hall in Worcester, MA throughout the 1970s.”
Posts you need to see: Botanizing Yunnan: Western China and the Tibetan Plateau, and Emotional Support Gardens are Really All About the Plants.
Follow @MattMattus on Twitter.
Credit: @matt_mattus on Instagram
3. Empress of Dirt
Melissa J. Will is the empress. She hails from Ontario, and she’s got “creative and frugal home and garden ideas for you.”
I really appreciate this blog.
Posts that caught my eye include 22 Flower Containers with Beautiful Plant Combinations and Easy Way to Grow a Flower Roof or Wall Garden.
Follow @empressofdirt on Twitter.
Credit: @empressofdirt on Instagram
4. Garden Therapy
Garden Therapy provides “better living through plants.”
Honestly, these words ring true in my green thumb life.
The site features posts on gardening, DIY, handmade things from the garden, plant-based beauty, and garden-to-table. Garden Therapy is written and managed by Stephanie Rose.
Notable posts include The Ultimate Perennial Garden Resource Guide and Add Some Color to the Table with Flowerfetti Salad.
Follow @Garden_Therapy on Twitter.
Credit: @garden_therapy on Instagram
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Christine Cube is a senior audience relations manager with PR Newswire and freelance writer. Follow her at @cpcube.
Hey Christine,
Thanks for sharing this create list of blogs. The information is amazing. Keep Blogging.
Thanks for sharing this yard and gardening blogs.! The best thing about following other garden bloggers is the new gardening approaches plus inspiration. There are many gardening blogs out there, but I found your blogs to be among the best.
Hi Christine! Just wanted to say thank you for the list of gardening blogs. It was awesome! I found that my favorite was a blog that is written and managed by plantsman Matt Mattus. I like how Mattus described his “growing style” and what he does in order to make sure his plants grow. The way he describes it is a lot like me – I am very hands-on when it comes to gardening and growing. In fact, this is how I started growing palm trees myself too! The Growing with Plants by Matt is it’s a seasonal journal of original, practical, and inspirational garden projects written by this plantsman who has been involved with horticulture throughout his career. There are many articles like yours about technology and gardening but none quite as well executed as what you’ve done! Keep up the great work.