The Inside Dirt @ iloveplants.com - April 2007

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In This Issue:
Featured Web Sites: Green Zone Life ** Grow’Em Plant Propagation Database
Garden News: 2007 All-America Rose Selection Winners
Garden Bargain: Save BIG on flowers at Dutch Gardens.
Garden Blogs: Dragonfly Garden * Mr Grandpa’s Garden * Digging * Garden Rant
From my Garden…Simply Susan!
What’s New at iloveplants.com

Greetings fellow gardeners, and a warm welcome to all of our new subscribers! Thank you for subscribing to The Inside Dirt @ iloveplants.com. Each month I bring you the “inside dirt” on a couple of garden Web sites and blogs, keep you up-to-date on the latest garden news and bargains, and give you an insider’s look at new Web sites and blogs added to iloveplants.com during the last month.

I hope you enjoy this month's newsletter. Drop me a line anytime you like with requests for future information or just to say hi and let me know what's growing in your garden. And, if you have a garden blog, please email the “url” to me. Thanks.

Susan

"When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
- William Wordsworth

FEATURED WEBSITES

GROWING GREEN - Green Zone Life
This online garden magazine provides a mix of garden and plant how-to articles, seasonal garden tips and calendar, a downloadable garden journal, and some easy to-do garden projects. You’ll find a variety of helpful articles on plants in the Green Zone.

PLANT KNOW-HOW! - Grow’Em Plant Propagation Database
Information on propagating 1,000 plus plant species from seeds, cuttings and layerings can be found in this online database. Additional information on composting techniques, fertilization, growth medium, lighting requirements, water and drainage are also included, along with a photo gallery.

GARDEN NEWS: The 2007 All-America Rose Selection Winners
The All-America Rose Selections winners for 2007 are: Rainbow Knock Outä (Landscape Shrub Rose), Strike it Richä (Grandiflora), and Moondanceä (Floribunda). You can purchase these award-winning roses at Jackson & Perkins.

GARDEN BARGAINS ONLINE: Save BIG on flowers at Dutch Gardens.
For a limited time, you can receive $25 off your order of $50 at Dutch Gardens. Use this half-price offer to fill your garden full of beautiful perennials, dahlias, gladiolus and lilies. A large selection to choose from.

FEATURED GARDEN BLOGS

DragonFly Garden
A native of Cuba, Rusty who now lives and gardens in Miami is working to create an oasis in his small urban backyard. Judging by the photos of his tropical garden, he has definitely succeeded at creating a restful place away from the busyness of urban life.

My Grandpa’s Garden
This new garden blog (started in February of this year) holds a lot of promise for future posts. Michelle, a Midwest gardener, has recently acquired her first “real” yard, and this spring will begin the fulfilling and frustrating mission of making it her own. She fondly reminisces about her grandpa’s garden, and has dedicated her blog and garden to his memory. A good blog to bookmark for anyone with fond memories of a grandparent’s garden.

Digging - Diary of an Austin Gardener
Pam gardens in the “black gumbo” soil of her central Austin, Texas garden. Inspired by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, she has created a breathtaking garden that contains a mix of drought-tolerant, native prairie plants. Her blog is abundantly filled with one striking photo after another.

Garden Rant
Four flourishing garden writers, Susan Harris, Elizabeth Licata, Michele Owens and Amy Stewart have teamed up to, what else, “rant and rave” about all things gardening. No topic is off limits to them, as witnessed by one of their latest posts on “The Naked Gardeners.” You’ll enjoy their honest bantering on their boredom with perfect magazine gardens, their distrust of the horticulture industry and much more. Check it out for yourself, and feel free to add your two cents worth!

FROM MY GARDEN…Simply Susan!
I have now taken to the cultivation of my own garden blog. Please visit Simply Susan! to see what’s happening in my zone 9 garden and please be sure to leave your footprints by posting a comment. I would love to hear from you!

For more great horticultural websites, please visit iloveplants.com – your online garden resource!