Foliage-rich pond garden: Kuster Garden at Madison Fling
July 10, 2022 We visited a number of gardens with ponds at the Garden Bloggers Fling in Madison, Wisconsin, last month. Tom Kuster, who was not a gardener at the time, inherited his pond with the house he and wife Cheryl purchased in 1990. Did the pond work its magic ...
Japanese-inspired garden of Linda Brazill and Mark Golbach, Part 2
July 08, 2022 In my last post I shared the Asian-style front garden of Linda Brazill and Mark Golbach, whose Madison, Wisconsin, garden of 28 years I toured on the recent Garden Bloggers Fling. (I first saw their garden back in 2010.) Today let me lead you on a tour ...
East meets Midwest in the garden of Linda Brazill and Mark Golbach, Part 1
July 06, 2022 Back in 2010, my husband traveled to Madison for the IRONMAN Wisconsin race (which he finished!), and I tagged along as cheerleader. Oh and also to see gardens. I was a big fan of the design-focused blog Each Little World by Linda Brazill and Mark Golbach and ...
Kicking off Madison Fling: People, badgers, barns, and a bountiful rooftop garden
July 04, 2022 Farm country scenery at the Flower Factory near Madison In late June I joined approximately 50 garden bloggers, Instagrammers, podcasters, and YouTubers in picturesque Madison, Wisconsin, for the 13th annual Garden Bloggers Fling. After a COVID hiatus of two years, and a heroic display of patience, stamina, ...
Do you share gardening online? Garden Bloggers Fling is for you!
March 10, 2022 Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison Regular readers know that I’ve been involved with the annual Garden Bloggers Fling — a 3-1/2-day meetup and garden tour hosted by local bloggers in a different city each year — since its debut in Austin in 2008. After a 2-year hiatus ...
COVID-19 scuttles Garden Bloggers Fling this year
June 19, 2020 Garden Bloggers Fling, the 13th annual meet-up of garden bloggers from across North America and beyond, was to have been held this weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. The coronavirus scuttled that party. I’m trying to wait patiently for next year, when Madison’s bloggers will try again to host ...
Bloggers, let’s go to Madison Garden Bloggers Fling
January 15, 2020 Garden bloggers, mark your calendars for June 18-21, and join me in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin, for the 13th annual Garden Bloggers Fling. Three days of garden tours include diverse private gardens — prairie gardens, an Asian-style garden by Linda Brazill and Mark Golbach of Each Little World ...
