Garden blogging is blooming in Austin
In the sidebar to the right, under “Gardens in Austin,” you’ll find links to eight other garden bloggers who call Austin home. Some, like Annie in Austin, many of you already know thanks to thoughtful, poetic posts and prolific comments. Others, like Vive at Something About Blooming and Butterflies, are new to the scene but delightful and well worth a visit.
I had the pleasure of stepping out of cyberspace with them yesterday as we visited each others’ gardens in what we dubbed a Ground Robin (a play on Round Robin). Eight of us carpooled from garden to garden to admire what was blooming (roses! sweet peas! salvia! jasmine!), enjoy some munchies, and yak our heads off about plants, garden plans, blogging, and anything else that came to mind. How lucky I feel to be a part of such a fun group of people with similar interests.
For other perspectives on our first Ground Robin, visit MSS at Zanthan, Susan at South of the River, Vive, and Annie at Transplantable Rose.
As our local garden-blogging community blossoms, so too does the garden. Here, a series of Echinacea purpura :
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Pam — Thanks again for organizing the first Ground Robin. I’m looking forward to seeing more of your garden — and the others — again.
Likewise, Susan. Your garden is lovely, and it was such a pleasure to see it in person after following it on your blog for a while. —Pam
You not only organized it, Pam, you thought up the name Ground Robin, which was perfect. Thank you for sharing your garden, your Amethyst iris, and hopefully, that recipe [hint, hint].
Annie
Well, I only added a “g” to your idea of Round Robin. Look for the recipe in your in-box. —Pam
I plan on gettin me some of that echinacea purpurea, but the list just keeps on growing!
Beautiful photos, the second one really jumped out at me.
The great thing about E. purpurea is that everybody can grow it. It’s an unassuming but cheerful, easy flower. You should definitely get some. —Pam
It was such a joy to meet all of you! Thanks Pam, for planning the Ground Robin (I keep wanting to order fries with that. *wink*). I’m totally inspired to attempt to make my garden as lovely as yours.
Fondly,
Dawn
Likewise, Dawn. It was so nice to meet you too. I look forward to future Ground Robins (with or without fries). —Pam
[...] Just think, if she starts blogging, you’ll get to see her lovely garden much more frequently. Hmmm, and maybe she’d be interested in joining the next Austin garden-bloggers’ Ground Robin and let us visit it. [...]
[...] Around here, robins appear in the winter, scratching for berries and bugs in the cedar brakes. In the spring they fly north to cooler climates. So the first Robin in my title refers not to the north’s harbinger of spring but to the Austin garden-blogger get-together and garden tour I mentioned yesterday, dubbed Ground Robin. [...]
[...] I didn’t take an official count, but I think we numbered 17 garden bloggers on this outing, a size that necessitated name tags. It was a much bigger group than when Jill last invited us into her garden, almost two years ago to the day during the Austin bloggers’ first “Ground Robin” meet-up. [...]