February 03, 2010

Reading a garden blog gives you a glimpse over the proverbial garden fence and opens the door to a conversation with the gardener. Listed below are some garden blogs I enjoy reading, starting with those from Austin, followed by other U.S. blogs, and rounding out the list with garden blogs from around the world. And for all you listeners out there, I’ve included some podcasts at the end of this page.

Consider this a mere sampling of all the wonderful garden blogs and podcasts being published. So many new ones have debuted in recent years that I haven’t been able to keep up with them all. My hope is that you’ll find this list useful primarily as a jumping-off point for discovering new voices.

Enjoy your garden visits!

AUSTIN GARDEN BLOGS

Central Texas Gardener Blog

East Side Patch

My Black Thumb

My Gardener Says…

Playin’ Outside

The Shovel-Ready Garden

Xeric Front Yard

TEXAS (outside of Austin) and U.S. GARDEN BLOGS

Art of Gardening — Buffalo, New York

AZ Plant Lady: Ramblings from a Desert Garden — Phoenix, Arizona

Chickadee Gardens — Portland, Oregon

Clay and Limestone — Nashville, Tennessee

Cold Climate Gardening — Upstate New York

Creative Living with Bren Haas — Ohio

Danger Garden — Portland, Oregon

Dirt Therapy — Vancouver, Washington

Dry Oasis — San Francisco Bay Area, California

Each Little World — Madison, Wisconsin

Flatbush Gardener — Brooklyn, New York

The Fling (formerly Garden Bloggers Fling) — United States & beyond

Flutter & Hum — Portland, Oregon

The Garden Diaries — Maryland

Garden in a City — Chicago, Illinois

Garden Rant — United States

GardenBook — Northern California

A Growing Obsession — Los Angeles, California

Growing with Plants — Central Massachusetts

A Guide to Northeastern Gardening — Long Island, New York

Harmony in the Garden — Sacramento area, California

Hayefield — Bucks County, Pennsylvania

The Horticult — La Jolla, California

The Illustrated Garden — Alabama

It’s a Dry Heat — El Paso, Texas

Late to the Garden Party — Los Angeles, California

Ledge and Gardens — Providence area, Rhode Island

May Dreams Gardens — Indianapolis, Indiana

Miss Smarty Plants — Orlando, Florida

MulchMaid — Portland, Oregon

My Secret Garden — Seattle, Washington

Natural Gardening — Asheville, North Carolina, and Bas St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Outside Clyde — Asheville, North Carolina area

pbmGarden — Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Piece of Eden — Southern California

Plant Lust: The Blog — Portland, Oregon

Plant Postings — Southern Wisconsin

PLANT•ED Blog — Nacogdoches, Texas

The Practical Plant Geek — Hales Corners, Wisconsin

Prairiebreak — Denver, Colorado

The Queen of Seaford — Greenwood, South Carolina

The Rainy Day Garden — West Linn, Oregon

Ravenscourt Gardens — Houston, Texas

Red Dirt Ramblings — North Central Oklahoma

Rock-Oak-Deer — San Antonio, Texas

Rock Rose — Oro Valley, Arizona

Serenity in the Garden — New York

Southern Meadows — Northeast Georgia

Succulents and More — Davis, California

Sweetbay — Central North Carolina

Talking to Plants — Central Wisconsin

Tara Dillard — Atlanta, Georgia

A Way to Garden — Hudson Valley, New York

Window on a Texas Wildscape — Texas Hill Country

Words + Images — Massachusetts

INTERNATIONAL GARDEN BLOGS

Alternative Eden — Luton, United Kingdom

Andrea Whitely Blog — Perth, Australia

Elephant’s Eye on False Bay — Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Garden Amateur — Sydney, Australia

Garden Dreaming at Châtillon — Lorraine, France

Glen Villa Art Garden Blog — Quebec, Canada

The New Perennialist — Ontario, Canada

Shirls Gardenwatch — Scotland

Tales from Awkward Hill — Bibury, Gloucestershire, England

Toronto Gardens — Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Veg Plotting — Wiltshire, United Kingdom

PODCASTS

A Way to Garden by Margaret Roach — Hudson Valley, New York

Cultivating Place by Jennifer Jewell — Chico, California

The Daily Gardener by Jennifer Ebeling — Maple Grove, Minnesota

The Horticulturati by Leah Churner and Colleen Dieter — Austin, Texas

The Plantastic Podcast by Jared Barnes — Nacogdoches, Texas

Slow Flowers by Debra Prinzing — Seattle, Washington