Greetings, OverPlanters! If you’ve read the text on the home page, then you know that this is a site for gardeners with a keen, not to say slightly obsessive, interest in ornamental plants and what to do with them. (There may be occasional forays into the realm of edibles, but ornamentals will be the mainstay.)
It may strike you as odd to launch a gardening website in the dead of winter, but look at it this way: you need some plant-related distraction after that hectic, exhausting, incongruously named period known as “the holidays.” And we’ll have plenty to talk about—there may not be much planting and weeding to do in the next few months, but there are lots of gardening-related activities we can engage in.
So take a look around; let me know if you like what you find, and what else you’d like to see. I’ll do my best to keep it fresh, interesting, and fun.
Happy 2010!
A late-season bouquet from me to you. From left to right: Salvia 'Silke's Dream', Salvia patens, Kniphofia 'Yellow Cheer', and Salvia roemeriana. (OK so I took the photo in November. Big woo.)
Sorry, me again. But after looking around the site a bit I had to pass on my kudos on the “Spirited Gardener” – LOVE IT.
Hey Tom! Congratulations on your latest creation. I hope you find blogging to be a creative outlet and place to have fun…and not just a time suck that distracts you from real life. Not that I know anything about that. Can’t wait to follow along on the herbaceous journey…I’ll keep it real with a plug for edibles>
Cheers,
Lorene
Congratulations, TOM!
Delighted your quick wit and unique observations are now ‘on the air’ and thrilled you will be a-bloggin’ throughout the year! There’s no voice quite like yours, and I know you will soon add many more fans to your existing throngs of devoted followers.
Though you’re somewhere in Zone 8 and I’m here in Zone 6 (or, well, actually last year it was 7, but the year before it was probably 5a . . . hmmm, let’s just call it *the befuddled Zone*), I truly look forward to the new plant passions you’ll be stirring in us all!
HAPPY NEW (GARDENING) YEAR!
xx,
Love
Hi, Tom — Be sure to include some succulent containers! ;+) Debra
Your acolytes awaits your next missive, oh verdant Oracle (OK, so I’m mixing my ancient metaphors). xoxo
Congrats, Tom! Great site full of good info. Love the plant source list. Will share with my gardening friends.
Hi Tom-
Congrats on the new blog. I’m starting one of my own soon, so it’s interesting to see what other people are doing. I look forward to reading more.
Janet
Congrats, Tom,
Raising a glass of bubbly in honor of OverPlanted – so what if New Year’s Eve has come & gone ;~D
I’ve just reviewed your latest effort, a galley of The Gardener’s Color Palette. Superb plant selections; your enthusiasm is contagious. Can’t wait to see the finished book!
Alice
aka Bay Area Tendrils Garden Travel
Congratulations Tom!
What a great forum for you to partake in. Now we all can imbibe in your experience and insight.
Looking forward to reading about your passion of ornamental plants -my Achilles heel.
Unlike Linda B., I can not go out and plant roses for a few more months, but do like the fact that I have a nice sized greenhouse to play around in.
Hoping to cross paths with you in 2010 -garden paths that is.
Bruce
Tom,
Starting a garden blog on New Year’s Day makes perfect sense to me. Larry and I moved into our house in December ’91, and I planted the garden’s first three roses (Shropshire Lass, Charles de Mill, and Russell’s Cottage Rose) on New Year’s Day, 1992. It filled my heart.
The website looks and reads great. It’s just like talking to you!
Happy New Year,
Linda B