Virtual Gardening in the Blogosphere

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Garden blogs have sprung up like weeds over the last few years—here’s what you need to know to tune in to and participate in this worldwide online community. LET’S JUMP right in with the important questions: What’s a “blog” and why should you care? The simple answer is that a blog is an online diary or journal, but more than that, blogs are the key to an entire world of garden-sharing with other gardeners. You might be interested in seeing pictures of other people’s gardens or reading about their successes and failures. You might be interested in learning about your favorite garden writer’s gardening techniques on a regular basis rather than whenever an article is published. You might even like to write about and share photographs of your own garden. Blogs make all of this possible, and even easy.

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For those who have ventured into online garden forums as a means to communicate with others who share similar interests in the virtual world, you’ll note some key differences between them and blogs. A forum tends to focus on a single issue; for example, you’re in the perennials forum and you’re talking about problems with perennials. You visit the water garden forum to discuss water garden issues. In contrast, on a blog, a passionate gardener writes about his or her personal garden, describing what’s working, what’s not, what’s in bloom, what’s dead or thriving. You may see mentions of kids, partners, local and national issues, and just about anything that the blogger cares to comment on. You may also see garden blogs with multiple authors, or those that are written by professional horticulturists or writers as a commercial venture.
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