Archive for March 4, 2009

Garden Rant announcing 99 word fiction contest

March 4, 2009 at 8:45 pm · Filed under Essays ·Tagged , ,

The gardening gals over at Garden Rant have posted a fun contest Garden Rant.   It’s a short fiction, garden writing contest – 99 words or less. Prizes are even involved.

If you choose to participate, leave your entry in their comments.  Its fun and easy to do.  I invested 20 minuets in this endeavour and learned a lot.  It is also fun to see what others wrote.

Here’s my first 99 word fiction:

Nature’s Way, Simplified

Life abounds, all around. As I journey down the garden path, I see holes in the leaves, but butterflies in the trees.

In Nature, one life balances the other; there’s no need to interfere.

The ladybug hungers for the sweet taste of aphids, thwarting the sapping of life from a rose. A bird spies a bug, a cat spies a bird, a fox chomps a cat. Flowers send scent through trumpets of red, ablaze for hummingbirds to spread. A frog feasts on slugs, then croaks with pride. Attracting a mate, to procreate. So it goes, all around, life abounds.

~ Helen Yoest


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March 2009 – Raleigh area – garden events

March 4, 2009 at 4:07 pm · Filed under Public Service Announcements ·Tagged , , ,

EVENTS

GARDENING WITH CONFIDENCE

PLANS TO ATTEND


March 2009


FUQUAY-VARINA

Saturday, March 7 from 10 am to 1:30 pm
Garden Writers Symposium & Book Signing
Meet local authors – Pam Beck, Roy Dicks, Peter Loewer, Pam Baggett, and Bobby Ward
Lectures every half hour.  Book sales and autographs, good food, fun.  Free, but registration is required.
The Garden Hut, 1004 Old Honeycutt Road, Fuquay-Varina.  (919) 552-0590, www.NelsasGardenHut.com

10 a.m.  Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols
Roy Dicks will read from his newest book and share biographical information on British writer Beverley Nichols.

10:45 a.m.  Bobby J. Ward, author of The Plant Hunter’s Garden and A Contemplation Upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature

11:30 a.m.  Change How You Garden
Correct plant choices, rain catchment, soil amendment, decreasing turfgrass, and more sustainable gardening ideas from garden writer, lecturer and photographer Pam Beck, author of Best Garden Plants for North Carolina.

12:15  Container Gardening and Native Plants
Peter Loewer is a longstanding writer and botanical artist for many gardening and natural history books.  His book The Wild Gardener was chosen as one of the best 75 gardening books of the 20th century by the American Horticultural Society.

1:00 p.m.  Pam Baggett, author of Tropicalismo!
Crazy for color? Gone bonkers over big leaves? The exotic colors and flagrant textures of tropical plants are just what you need.

BAHAMA, NC

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Architectural Trees

Spring Open House

Saturday, March 6  10 AM – 4 PM

6404 Amed Road

Bahama, NC  27503

919.620.0779

Architectural Trees


RALEIGH, NC

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Plant Delights Nursery Open House

Friday and Saturday, March 6-7 8 AM – 5 PM

9241 Sauls Road

Raleigh, NC 27603

Plant Delights Nursery


CHAPEL HILL, NC

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March 20-22

Spring Open House at Camellia Forest Nursery

919.968.0504

Camellia Forest

If you have an event you want to post, please send me an e-mail at helen@GardeningWithConfidence.com

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In Print – Most Influential Garden Bloggers

March 4, 2009 at 10:13 am · Filed under In Print ·Tagged , ,

Robin Wedewer, Gardening Examiner for Examiner.com, asked her readers to submit their most  influential bloggers.  With so many great blogs out there, she wanted to see who others thought were influential.  She got a lot of responses identifying great blogs people like to read; but the question was specific – what blogs influence you?  As it happens, my blog was one mentioned by a few of my readers.  Here’s a look at Robins question and summation:    Most Influential Garden Bloggers

I first “met” Robin at Twitter, a social media network I enjoy visiting.   She is into a lot of fun things; Robin is an accomplished chef, keeps chickens, loves to gardens, has a gorgeous garden and offers an upbeat thoughtful examination of what she presents.  I follow Robin at Examiner.com and on her  own blog at Bumblebee

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