Welcome

November 19th, 2005

My name is Chris and this is my gardening blog. I live in the city, technically “near-suburbs” I guess, and my lot isn’t the biggest thing in the world, but I make the most of it. Since buying this house I’ve put in over 500 linear feet of brick retaining wall, a new fence, and hundreds of plants. I’ve probably spent nearly $10k and hundreds of hours of labor over the past two years on my landscape. I mostly grow flowers and perennials, but I’ve also planted some trees and foliage plants.

The goal of this blog is for me to share my passion with the world, and also to provide tips I’ve learned through my own experiences and through watching countless episodes of shows like Gardening by the Yard. (hi Paul).

Its almost Christmas right now, and so there isn’t alot of gardening to be done, so don’t expect a lot of activity here until spring comes, at which time I hope to post atleast once a week. I plan to cover both gardening and landscape design.

Oh, and I garden in Zone 5 (lower Michigan).

Related posts:

  1. Save Paul James, Gardening by the Yard Cancelled, HGTV == Bad

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10 Responses to “Welcome”

  1. Pensive  Says:
    March 9th, 2006 at 10:16 am

    Hi Chris, It is a good website. Great tips about gardening. I will try it in my games: Harvest Moon and Sims Makin Magic. They deal a lot with archtitect, designing and landscaping.

    Well, thanks!

  2. Niccole  Says:
    March 9th, 2006 at 2:41 pm

    Hi Chris,
    I do love gardening. I grew up in a small town and my mom loves gardening so it’s in my blood :).
    Last month my husband gave me a bouquet of Tulips, there are so beautiful! I will be very thankful if you can give me some advice about how to treat them, if I can keep them in water or I must plant them in soil.

    Thanks in advance!

  3. sandt  Says:
    April 9th, 2006 at 4:39 am

    Hi Chris,
    You have a really neat site, I’ve been reading through your posts and know that I will be returning.

    Good luck with the blue poppies. I have been trying to get them started here in Maine, and so far, have not been able.

    Sandy

  4. Garden guy  Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Really great site, I use the Mittleider method of gardening. Next year I am increasing the size of my homestead garden. Withthe yields I can even sell a great amount of produce.

    Keep up the great work and
    Happy gardening.

  5. Matt Cohen  Says:
    August 15th, 2008 at 8:05 am

    Hi Chris
    Your blog and the whole set-up of your site is great. I’d love for you to review my book Zen of Watering Your Garden. Just drop a mailing address at the email.

    Matt

  6. Holger Thomas  Says:
    March 13th, 2009 at 8:34 am

    Dear Chris,

    I find your blog very interesting and inspiring. I’m going to follow it and put it in my blog roll. If you like, you can link back to me.
    I’m primarlity focussed on growing our own vegetables in the back garden, i.e. with the limited space available.

    Cheers, Holger.

  7. KEVIN  Says:
    April 22nd, 2009 at 9:57 am

    WITH ALL THE TROUBLE IN THE WORLD,AND THINGS HURTING THE PLANT.PAUL SHOWS HOW TO HELP, AND YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO CANCELL A SHOW THE CAN HELP. NOW WE ARE IN TROUBLE

  8. Bruce  Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 6:39 am

    I wholey agree with what is happening at HGTV. The loss of “Gardening by the Yard” is but another indication that they have lost their way.

    Some of the new shows are just stupid and are aimed at a veyr low intellectual level.

  9. bernard wall  Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 8:36 am

    these people are the type to have never gotten there hands dirty. probaly never ben in a garden to bad. i feel bad for this type of person.you can have a millon dollar home and don’t have flowers,and garden to go with it.i hope PAUL JAMES gets a station that appreciate his show.i could watch it all day.

  10. Marsha Guess  Says:
    May 24th, 2009 at 10:47 pm

    Same goes in our family. All us kids were brought up growing something. Mom was always playing in the dirt! There are only two of us out of four that garden. I have been watching the TV Guide threw the system trying to find Gardening by the Yard. I love that show. Yes, he was a kid at heart but I always laughted right along with everbody else. I’d much rather watch Paul James than any one of the landscape segments.
    I’ll end with; I’m going to look throught your website! Thanks,
    Marsha

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