Thinking about Gardens
What I want for Christmas. Garden bloggers who are tired of posting pictures of blooming flowers (unless they do it to make a point or communicate useful information), blogs that tell us about your part of the world (preferably with pictures), nurseries that ALWAYS provide information on a plant's natural habitat and the conditions under which it is likely to thrive, blog posts that address whole gardens or large parts of gardens rather than one or two isolated features or plants, garden magazines concerned with big picture concepts rather than strictly edited "how to" articles (such as Fine Gardening), a less utilitarian gardening culture, people who read and think about garden design, the experience of being in a garden, the reasons for gardening. More thought and less sentimentality.
James Golden