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  • I was the Sacramento Gardening Scene Examiner for Examiner.com. Here are some of my most popular articles:

  • Easy ways to jazz up your garden
  • Daphne enhanced by companion plant Glory of the Snow
  • Gardening 101: Three foolproof bulbs to plant in the fall

   Deer resistant and drought tolerant
   Spanish lavender, the jolliest lavender of them all
   English lavender: The Little Black Dress of the lavender world

  • The national convention of the American Daffodil Society
  • Unusual green daffodils at national show
  • World's largest show of miniature daffodils

  • Dianne Benson, author of one of my favorite garden guides, DIRT: The Lowdown on Growing a Garden with Style
  • An interview with Dianne Benson, famed author of DIRT, about her Ten Essentials for the gardener
  • Best dramatic plants, from Dianne Benson

    Just for fun
    Lowly garden hose gets a style upgrade from Dirt Couture
    A glove to love


  • Garden show season
  • First California State Flower & Garden Show makes a splash
  • San Francisco Flower & Garden Show captured the Zeitgeist
  • San Francisco Flower & Garden Show: Savvy gardener's choice this week


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You'll find a mix of helpful daffodil information, spoof garden news stories, and lively tidbits for gardeners.

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Sun rays of praise for the Daffodil Planter blog

  • The best serious and funny garden blog in the world!--Moosey, the internationally-known gardening grande dame from New Zealand
  • The perfect reading snack, always served with a generous sprinkling of wit and real garden wisdom.--Billy Goodnick, Contributing Editor, Fine Gardening magazine
  • If your slightly subversive aunt wrote a garden blog, it might resemble this.--Award-winning radio and television garden expert, "Farmer Fred" Hoffman
  • Daffodil Planter writes about "gardening with a sense of humor". Yes! We must! Check out her fun site.--Award-winning garden writer Carolyn Singer
  • Finalist for international Garden Blog of the Year 2009 at Blotanical.com
  • Blog of the Week at the Sacramento Bee newspaper
  • Top 50 Botany Blogs

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Spoof news about the White House garden

  • Bush and Obama in White House Vegetable Garden Crisis
  • Congressional Support for the White House Vegetable Garden
  • Congress to Buy Sheep for the White House Lawn
  • Supreme Court leak: Earth Day review of the separation of powers?
  • Michelle Obama: Arms of a Gardener
  • Capitol Bees
  • First Lady Wants Monsanto GMO Corn for the White House Garden

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Backyard poultry on parade

  • The Americana, Ameraucana, Araucana backyard chicken confusion
  • Chicken Lady Hall of Fame: The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire
  • Backyard turkeys: The next wave in gardening

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  • That Rose Campion--she seemed like such a nice girl!
  • Grateful Hedge Fund Managers Surprise Citizens in Connecticut Town
  • Watering

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Garden amusement from Daffodil Planter

  • The dangers of garden literature
  • Compulsive Gardeners: Top Ten List
  • The back lawn is gone
  • To seed or not to seed?
  • Garden nomenclature

at the movies

  • My garden reminds me of a Bergman film
  • Hot-blooded houseguests
  • Narcissus 'Misty Glen' takes home the Wister Award
  • Invasive plants on the lam

my Professional experience

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  • I tweet at Twitter about the latest in gardens, with gardeners around the world

Henry MItchell Quotation

Flowering trees are usually a snare and a delusion, like those people you meet at cocktail parties who seem so glamorous and exciting and whom, after the third time, you hope never to see again.

-- "The Essential Earthman"

Quoted in:

  • AOL News
  • Sacramento Bee
  • Sacramento Bee

Featured in:

Chicago Sun-Times newspaper
Montana Outdoors magazine
The Union newspaper
Sacramento Bee newspaper

2012 Calendar of California Daffodil Events & Shows

  • DAFFODIL DAYDREAMS at Filoli, Feb. 24-26
  • BAY AREA DAFFODIL SHOW at Alden Lane Nursery, Livermore, March 3 & 4
  • DAFFODIL EXPLOSION at Point Arena, March 10 & 11
  • MOTHER LODE DAFFODIL SHOW at Ironstone Vineyards, Murphys, March 17 & 18
  • FORTUNA DAFFODIL SHOW, March 24 & 25
  • JULIAN DAFFODIL SHOW, March 24 & 25
  • DAFFODIL HILL in Amador County, mid-March through mid-April, depending on weather
  • NATIONAL DAFFODIL SHOW in Baltimore, Maryland, April 20-22

events for foothills gardeners

  • PACIFIC ORCHID EXPOSITION, February 2013, San Francisco
  • SAN FRANCISCO FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW, March 20-24, 2013, San Mateo
  • DAFFODIL HILL, Amador County: open mid-March through mid-April 2013
  • ANANDA SPRING GARDEN TOUR, FREE, April 2013, North San Juan
  • NEVADA COUNTY HOME & GARDEN SHOW, FREE, April 2013, Nevada County Fairgrounds
  • 20th Anniversary SOROPTIMIST NEVADA COUNTY GARDEN TOUR, May 2013
  • Yuba River Wildflowers

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Readers loved these guest posts on Daffodil Planter

  • Are you one of these difficult garden center customers?, by Jenny Bennett
  • Asparagus: Fresh and fleeting, by Molly Fisk
  • Mower, by Molly Fisk

Garden Blogs in the Sierra Foothills and sacramento

  • The Farmer Fred Rant
    Drip Irrigation: How Long Do I Water?
  • A Suburban Farmer, Placerville
    It’s Apricot Season in Sunny California!
  • Dirt Du Jour
    On vacay!
  • The Blogging Nurseryman, Garden Valley
    The most influential people in garden retail?
  • Brown Thumb Mama, Sacramento
    The Magic of Camp
  • Garden Bliss, Carmichael
    A little bit of Flora Grubb came home with me
  • Peaceful Valley Organic Gardening
    Growing Lettuce
  • Sierra Foothill Garden
    Tim and Barbara’s ‘ideal’ Foothill garden: One year later
  • California School of Garden Design, Applegate
    A STUDY IN SCARLET…
  • NorCal Katie, Folsom
    No pic
  • Sacramento Vegetable Gardening
    Have a Berry Nice Day!
  • Geno's Garden
    Garden Adventures in Vacaville - Who Knew?
  • Growing A Garden In Davis
    The Time of Surprises
  • Tulips in the Woods, Grass Valley
    Returning
  • Jenn's Gardening Spot, Antelope
    Seed Starting, my favorite time of year!
  • Bamboo Geek, Rocklin
    Signs that Spring 2013 is right around the corner...
  • Inside Red Studio, Sacramento
    Garden Inspiration
  • The Lamm Farm, Lincoln
    Jr. Livestock Auction
  • Laure's Gardens, Sacramento
    The National Heirloom Exposition, 2nd Annual Event, September 11, 12, &13, 2012
  • Not So Crafty, Davis
    Summer Harvest Carrot Cake
  • Read Between the Limes, Sacramento
    Garden2Blog 2012 with P. Allen Smith & Friends
  • Daffodil Planter, Nevada City
    Daffodil Blogorama 2012
  • Through the Garden Gate, Elk Grove
    Peas are Planted

Northern California garden blogs, beyond sacramento

  • Flora Grubb blog, San Francisco
    Moroccan Mosaic Table Care
  • Cactus Blog, Berkeley
    Marigolds
  • Dirt Du Jour
    On vacay!
  • From Seed to Table, Carmel Valley
    Harvest Monday - June 17, 2013
  • Town Mouse and Country Mouse, Mountain View and Santa Cruz
    And now for something completely different....
  • Golden Gate Gardener
    New Recipes for Chard and for a Tomato Soup with Carrots
  • Far Out Flora's Blog, San Francisco
    Lotsa Love for Lettuce
  • North Coast Gardening, Humboldt County
    Review of Kiss My Aster by Amanda Thomsen (With Giveaway!)
  • Garden Porn, Marin
  • Curbstone Valley, Santa Cruz Mtns
    Soap Making: Our First Milk Soaps
  • Dirty Girl Gardening, Half Moon Bay
    Inspired by a rose…
  • Gossip in the Garden, Los Altos
    Using white flowers in the garden
  • An Alameda Garden
    Help with the Summer Pruning
  • Dry Stone Garden, Berkeley
    Garden Conservancy Open Days in Marin
  • Blue Planet Gardening, Contra Costa County
    Garden Design Inspiration—Illusion
  • My Back 40 (Feet), San Francisco
    Everyday sights in Bernal Heights
  • Rose Notes, East Bay
    Celebrating Old Roses
  • Bay Area Tendrils, Marin County
    Point Lobos Vista
  • Annie's Amazing Nursery, Richmond
    Combination Nation!
  • A Verdant Life, Palo Alto
    California's New(ish) Irrigation Laws
  • Habitat Design, Palo Alto
    Habitat Design Holiday Pop Up Shop
  • Floradora, Oakland
    2012 APLD Conference Peninsula Garden Tours, #1
  • InterLeafings, San Jose
    Wordless Wednesday: Discovering Kirby Park

Southern California Dreamin' Blogs

  • LA Times Home & Garden blog
    Homes by Frank Gehry, Eric Owen Moss, Neil Denari open for tour
  • The Gardeners Cottage, Redlands
    the cranely hotel and the neighborhood of kensington
  • Dirt Du Jour
    On vacay!
  • Pat Welsh, Del Mar
    Kiwi vines
  • The Gardens of Petersonville, Laguna Beach and San Juan Capistrano
    More Than Green
  • Eden Makers, Los Angeles
    Benefit of Plants: Infographic
  • Native Gardener, Topanga Canyon
    Outside My Bedroom Window: Camping on the Beach
  • Living Homegrown
    Technical Difficulties
  • Vintage Garden Gal
    Omega-3 Chicken Forage Blend
  • Lost in the Landscape, San Diego
    safely in pots
  • The Kat's Garden
    To Begin Again
  • The Earthworm's Lair, Santa Barbara
    New Product Highlight: Planting Holes
  • Pathway to the Garden, Los Angeles
    Spring in motion
  • Life on the Balcony, Long Beach
    The New Sprout Growing On My Balcony
  • Garden Wise Guy, Santa Barbara
    Yards: Turn Any Outdoor Space Into the Garden of Your Dreams
  • The Germinatrix, LA
    The Huntington – On Seeing Old Friends
  • Plant Soup, Encinitas
    Za’atar – The All Purpose Middle Eastern Spice Mix

Garden Bloggers will gather in San Francisco June 2013

Garden Bloggers will gather in San Francisco June 2013

Gardeners in the mist--Pacific Northwest

  • Gardening With Grace, OR
    She's Gone
  • N.W. Bloom
    Happy Birthday to N.W. Bloom!
  • Plant Talk, Whidbey Island
    Celebrate the Summer Solstice with Garden Tours on Whidbey and Vashon Islands
  • VW Garden, Spokane
    'Blue Moon' Wisteria macrostachya
  • Personal Garden Coach, WA
    Garden Designers Roundtable – Celebrating Trees
  • Blunders with shoots, blossoms 'n roots, Redmond, OR
    All good things must come to and end
  • Gardener to Farmer, Portland
    Everyday Roses and The Four Seasons Farm Gardener's Cookbook
  • Gardening in my Rubber Boots, Seattle
    I Almost Killed My Chickens Last Night
  • aHa! Home and Garden OR
    Can You Find Unique Dining Room Ideas from a Catalog?
  • Muck About
    Putting the Garden to Bed - Tasks for the Autumn Garden

The rest of the West is garden blogging too

  • High Altitude Gardening, UT
    7 Fab Reasons to Plant Bearded Iris
  • Dung hoe, CO
    Summer 2013
  • Seasonal Wisdom, Boise
    Hot Trends from 2013 Chelsea Flower Show
  • Western Gardeners, Denver
    New Ideas in Straw Bale Gardening
  • Montana Wildlife Gardener, Missoula
    Buy nothing new from China update- Success!
  • Bees and Chicks, CO and SoCal
    Sunday Zen

Yellow roses and more in the texas blogs

  • Digging
    Potted plants and stripey leaves for Foliage Follow-Up
  • Farm Natters
    State o' the Garden & Orchard, 2013
  • Austin Landscape Design - J Peterson Garden Design
    It’s in the Details

Midwestern gardeners who aren't kidding about four seasons

  • Chiot's Run, OH
    Kingwood Center in Mansfield, OH
  • Our Little Acre, OH
    Divine Appointment With a Daylily
  • Red Dirt Ramblings, OK
    Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, June 2013
  • MrBrownThumb, IL
    Caring for Daffodils After Blooming
  • Greensparrow Gardens, MI
    Report from the trial beds: Erodium!
  • Garden Faerie's Musings, MI
    Century plant blooms at Matthaei
  • Snarky Vegan, IL
    Celebrating Christmas, snarky style!

North Carolina blogs--from the Smokies to the beach

  • Outside Clyde
    Ten Feet To The Right
  • A Charlotte Garden
    Scented Geranium Blooms
  • Gardening With Confidence™, Raleigh
    Gardening with Pepper
  • Natural Gardening, Asheville (and Clemson, SC)
    Spigelia marilandica (Indian pink)
  • GardenDesigns+more, Wilmington
    The Sky is falling …
  • Leave Me Alone, I'm Digging, Greensboro
    December Camellia
  • Flowergardengirl™, Clemmons
    Menopause Gardening is not for wimps
  • The Garden of Words, Wilmington
    The View from Here

a glass of sweet tea, please, to go with these southern garden blogs

  • Washington Gardener, DC
    Video Wednesday: Spring 2013 Washington Gardener Magazine
  • The Redneck Rosarian, AL
    Climbing Pinkie | Polyantha | Earth Kind Rose | National Rose Month
  • In the Garden, TN
    The June Garden
  • Sassy Fras Cottage, TN
    Terrific Two!
  • Faire Garden, TN
    Spilling Blooms of Mid-June 2013
  • Yardflower, MS
    More Bee Meadow, Please
  • Clay and Limestone, TN
    A Swallowtail Stopped By
  • The Queen of Seaford, SC
    Greenwood's Festival of Flowers Time
  • Thanks For 2 Day, VA
    Bluebird Fledgling's First Bath
  • All About Daffodils, AL
    2013:The Year of Tete-a-Tete
  • Garden Putter
    Domesticity, Gardens, Old Resentments, Children, Men and Virginia Woolf
  • Sustainable Gardening Blog, MD
    The Changing of the Hondas
  • Mother Nature's Garden Evolution, TN
    A Quiet Pool

Northern gardeners--sturdy souls

  • A Garden of Possibilities, CT
    Wordless Wednesday ~ Tapestry
  • A Way to Garden, NY
    naming weeds: hello, galinsoga and commelina
  • Miss Rumphius' Rules, NJ
    New Barn for an Old Farmhouse
  • Cold Climate Gardening, Upstate NY
    Irises Rule: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2013
  • Hayefield, Bucks County, PA
    Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – June 2013
  • Flower Hill Farm, Berkshires, MA
    Flower Hill Farm Spring Butterflies ~ Part One
  • The Meditative Gardener, VT
    The Meditative Gardener is on Retreat.
  • Oakleaf Green's Garden Smackdown™, MA
    What I’m Doing On My Summer “Vacation”
  • Dirtier, Southampton, NY
    IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS
  • Gardening While Intoxicated, Buffalo
    Flowers in the snow

group blogs in the usa

  • Garden Rant
    I Wish They All Could Be California Flowers by Amy Stewart
  • Dirt Du Jour
    On vacay!
  • Gardening Gone Wild
    Why Cultivating Patience In The Garden Is Transformative
  • Freshman Farmer - New Organic Farms Set Roots
    New/Old Kitchen Gadget

O Canada! O Garden bloggers!

  • Toronto Gardens
    Gardening without gardening
  • Green Theatre, Ontario
    It’s the most wonderful time of the year
  • Doug Greens Garden Blog, Ontario
    Jun 17, My Garden in Late June 2013
  • Heavy Petal, Vancouver
    Seed bombing on CBC News
  • Soliloquy, Nova Scotia
    Christmas Trees: Not Just For Putting Gifts Under
  • Kate smudges in earth, paint and life, Saskatchewan

the folks who brought us trugs--United kingdom & ireland

  • Royal Horticultural Society
    Bye bye Sarah and hello handout
  • Shirls Gardenwatch, Perthshire, Scotland
    Osprey - the ultimate fisher
  • Transatlantic Plantsman, PA and Northamptonshire
    Choosing the best delphinums
  • Patrick Fitzgerald's Nursery, Ireland
    Irish Primrose at Bloom 2013
  • An Artist's Garden, Wales
    Will do (almost) anything for cake!
  • Ryan's Garden, Wales
    Jewels in the sunlight
  • Emily's Garden, England
    A tour

european and scandinavian bloggers you want to move in with

  • Our French garden in the beautiful Dordogne
    Diary date June 12th
  • The Greenhouse in Tyra's Garden, Sweden
    Show Me Your Greenhouse - Claus Dalby
  • The Balcony Garden
    April Heatwave

africa & asia--warm up on a cool day

  • Elephant's Eye
    June's Dozen for Diana
  • Garden Chronicles, Malaysia
    Caladium Collection
  • My little vegetable garden, Malaysia
    celosia, pinkish purple.
  • The Urban Gardener, Mumbai, India
    Summer was here!

change seasons with the bloggers down under

  • Mooseys Country Garden News, New Zealand
    Inexplicably winter-moochy...
  • Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas
    Cockroach Control | How to Keep Cockroaches out of Your Garden and Home

A mixed border of Garden topics

  • Plants are the Strangest People (houseplants and humor)
    Random plant event: Tagetes patula 'Durango Bee'
  • Dirt Du Jour
    On vacay!
  • Shed Style
    SLOW FLOWERS: Week 24
  • The Galloping Gardener
    French Gourmet Gardens - Yves Gosse le Gorre's allegorical acreage at Sericourt
  • Peaceful Valley Organic Gardening
    Growing Lettuce
  • The Garden Plot
    GMG's Friday Find: Welcome to the Garden of Nash
  • Therapeutic Landscapes Network
    Gezi Park, Nearby Nature, and Democracy
  • Sharon Lovejoy Writes From Sunflower House and a Little Green Island
    Getting my Ducks (and ducklings) in a Row
  • gardenhistorygirl
    On the Transience of Garden Fads
  • Alice's Garden Travel Buzz
    The Willows … Chicago Touring
  • First Daffodils 2011
    Horse and Daffodils in Nooksack, Washington
  • GardenBloggers.com
    What Plants Talk About
  • A Fresh Bouquet
    What is NEOflora and why should you care about it?
  • The Laptop Gardener
    The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm

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garden book blogs

  • Timber Press Talks
    Succulents Simplified Pinterest contest!
  • Gardening by the Book
    Kiss My Aster

Fun blogs that barely mention gardens

  • Une femme d'un certain age
    In Season, In Progress
  • Endless streams and forests
    Mt. LeConte via Surry Fork
  • A Right Royal Blog — the scoop on royal weddings, fashion, babies and maybes
    Organic eggs at Highgrove
  • 5-Minute Writing Blog
    Mastering the Art of the Interview
  • austenonly
    For too long I have been silent…
  • elle ink
    Stripes that Flatter — for Real
  • Roz's Scrumptious Recipes
    Passover Chocolate covered Almond – Coconut Macaroons
  • The Nature of the Beast (according to Susan McCarthy)
    Fine man, fine bird
  • Fruit Maven
    Rose Apple
  • Bay Area Poodle Rescue
    First Annual Day of Wine and Poodles

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