Comments on: Cold Climate Kathy comes to Austin

By: LostRoses

LostRoses — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:53:50 +0000

Wow, what fun! And how cool to see these photos and bloggers from near and far meeting each other. I like it!

Quite a few Colorado gardeners have gotten into blogging lately. Maybe you will have a meet-and-greet one of these days. Wouldn’t that be fun? —Pam

By: kerri

kerri — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:47:51 +0000

What fun to meet Kathy and her friend, Cynthia. I enjoyed seeing the photo of the group.
Gosh, 99Âº sounds a bit too warm for me! Our weather has been beautiful. I sure would love to see it linger for a good while longer.

It was a lot of fun . . . and it was too warm for me too. Please send some cooler weather down Texas way. —Pam

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:17:31 +0000

I had a wonderful time visiting all three gardens. I don’t think of myself as someone who can take the heat, but it really didn’t seem as humid to me as when we have a 90+F day around here. And it has been unseasonably warm here in upstate NY, so there wasn’t as much of a temperature shock as there would have been in a “normal” year.

I think garden bloggers should start thinking about having regional meet-ups. Pick a location that’s a day trip for most bloggers in your state, and time it to coincide with a garden event that you can visit or do together–even shopping at a nursery together can be fun.

I knew you were tough. I’m glad the heat didn’t bother you though.

Regional meets for garden bloggers is a nice idea. We’ve been doing that in Austin already, but it would be nice to meet the north and east Texas bloggers too. West Texans might feel left out, though. It’s a looong way from here to El Paso. —Pam

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:49:49 +0000

What a great photo of ‘all the girls”. Its nice to put the faces to the blogs.

By: Kim'

Kim' — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:45:06 +0000

What fun you all must have had–and what a good-looking group of girls you are in those photos! :) I would love to meet some fellow bloggers. (And I actually may, soon.) But you can keep your 99 degrees… Kathy Purdy may very well be able to handle that with aplomb, but I would melt. Or be driven under the canopy of very shady trees.

I melt in those temperatures too. I hid in the shade in MSS’s garden, though she has less of it than she used to. And of course Shady Grove is very shady. —Pam

By: Digging » Garden blogging is bigger in Texas

Digging » Garden blogging is bigger in Texas — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:04:53 +0000

[...] I can’t resist a little Texas-style bragging. When Carol commented on my post about our meeting with Kathy Purdy, “[T]hat’s quite a concentration of garden bloggers. Perhaps a new record of six together at one time? Can anyone beat that?”—well, I just had to remind her (and now all of you) about the Austin bloggers’ spring get-together. [...]

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:34:18 +0000

Sounds like you all had a great day. What Bill said, that's a quite a concentration of garden bloggers. Perhaps a new record of six together at one time? Can anyone beat that? Maybe some day we should have a Garden Bloggers' Convention, in real-time, and set a new record. Wouldn't that be something? Carol at May Dreams Gardens (still a name and a garden but no face because again, that profile picture of the lady mowing in the white dress is not really me!) Oh, no, six is no record. The Austin bloggers topped that number with the first Ground Robin get-together last April, when eight of us toured each other's gardens, swapped divisions, and yakked over wine and some great appetizers. We were accompanied that day by a Statesman photographer, who was taking photos for my soon-to-be-published article on the popularity of garden blogging in Austin. (The link to my article no longer works, so I'll republish it in an upcoming post.) Click here for the photo of the eight Austin bloggers. From left to right: Dawn, Julie, Vive, R. Sorrell, Pam, MSS, Annie-Kathy, and Susan. Since then, Diana and Bonnie have joined us, and of course Tom Spencer is here as well. One day, I hope we can all get together. I'll throw down the gauntlet right now to see if another group of garden bloggers can beat that record. Actually, I'd be thrilled to see it happen---with photos for proof, of course. ---Pam

By: Annie in Austin

Annie in Austin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:33:58 +0000

Hip chick! That remark from Chuck made my day. But rather than hip or hippie it’s “hip-py”.

My name is not a big secret – I’m another Kathy. When I started to blog I’d been using Annie in Austin for several years to make comments. Kathy Purdy and Kathy Jentz were very well known garden bloggers and staying Annie avoided another Kathy in the mix.

As a gardener named Pam you’ve had your own moments of confusion, haven’t you!

Annie at the Transplantable Rose
[sometimes known as Kathy-Annie]

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:54:47 +0000

Thanks again for including me for lunch. It was lovely to meet Kathy, Diana & Cynthia for the first time and to see the rest of you again. What a beautiful group of ladies! (Must admit I prefer my group photo taken at Shady Grove because I cropped off my lower half). Heehee! ;-)

I’m so glad you could join us, Dawn. I wish more of the Austin bloggers had been able to make it too, but they were either tied up with work or out of town. Alas, the real world does have its demands. —Pam

By: Layanee

Layanee — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:50:09 +0000

What a great day you all must have shared! The garden blogging community is such a supportive one and you all look so happy in the pictures. It is very interesting to put faces with heretofore faceless names and, what is Annie’s real name? Annie, do tell! Your lilies bloomed for the group!

I had a great time meeting Kathy and her friend Cynthia, and reconnecting with the Austin bloggers. I’ll leave it to Annie to divulge or keep secret her real name. A little mystery can be fun, right? —Pam