Linny
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Great sense of humor and good insight on life here! Thanks for the link.

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webmaster wrote:I love this blog! Great stuff!
:D

Any particular post you'd like to highlight?
No. I love this site tho. With four writers working on it, some days there are three new articles to read so it always has me going back. Great timekiller when you are supposed to be working!

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The little bit I've read so far is definitely entertaining. Fun blog.

May I be so bold as to ask exactly what a blog is? Looks like a website to me. I hear the term all the time and simply am not getting it. I know what YouTube is but this blog deal has left me scratching my head.

Here are a few more "blogs" that look like personal websites to me-
https://forests.org/
https://invasivespecies.blogspot.com/
https://sparkleberrysprings.com/v-web/b2/
https://www.mongabay.com/news-index/invasive_species1.html
https://birdfreak.com/
https://www.treehugger.com/
https://mnnps.blogspot.com/
https://www.plentymag.com/blogs/extinction/
https://blip.tv/file/144540
https://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?cat=109
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/environmental_law/
https://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/
https://www.ecoearth.info/blog/

You gotta love this "blog" that starts out with an article titled, "Lawn chemicals are safe according to group paid to say chemicals are safe."
https://macphailwoods.org/blog/taxonomy/term/2

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[quote="TheLorax"]
May I be so bold as to ask exactly what a blog is? ]

It is supposed to be an online diary. Literally it is a "website log".
A day to day account of something that an individual (or in some cases two or three people) think others will find educational, interesting and/or amusing.
That my understanding of one anyway.

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I give up on keeping up with all of this. They look like websites to me but they're really supposed to be online diaries? Strange. The ones I have stumbled upon have been educational, entertaining, and/or amusing though.

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The "not so" clueless gardeners blog site-
https://thecluelessgardeners.blogspot.com/

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At least one of the Garden Rant bloggers has a "problem" with native plants. Don't go there much any more.

Amy Stewart's book, "Flower Confidential" is a must-read, though.

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Their bias must have been buried pretty well because I missed it when I was over there. Will look closer next time I go there. Don't know how anyone could have a problem with native plants these days unless they own a nursery and are selling plants that "naturalize" or maybe plants that are going to end up or already have ended up on banned and restricted lists.

Would like to know your take since you obviously read the book.

Just found it online for sale and there's a supersaver discount if you order $25 or more-

[url=https://www.amazon.com/Flower-Confidential-Good-Bad-Beautiful/dp/1565126033/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=thehelpfulgar-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325]https://www.amazon.com/Flower-Confidential-Good-Bad-Beautiful/dp/1565126033/[/url]

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My take on the book is that it's an excellent one if you want to learn about the cut-flower trade, down the the minutea of breeding gerbera daisies to control how the leaves spread out so each leaf can collect the most light. It's a very interesting book, and I highly recommend it.

I also recommend Michael Pollan's book "The Botany of Desire"

I'm on a waiting list for his book "The Omnivore's Dilemma"

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The only thing I recall to that effect was that she had native plants, but she doesn't stick to them as the only thing in her yard.

I'm with Lorax. Who couldn't like natives?

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The Botany of Desire is very good. I now understand where ahughes was coming from when recommending 'Flower Confidential'.

Still need to go back to the Garden Rant to poke around for the "problem". Based on the books ahughes is recommending, I think I know what to look for now.

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Hi, everyone, and thanks for the nice mention.
First on the definition of "blog," it's really just a type of website that lists articles consecutively down the main page (thus it's used by some people as a journal). So it just displays its content in a different way than a "static" website. The other technical difference is that blogging programs allow for comments and display them consecutively, too, though some bloggers turn off the comment function (boo-hiss!).

About native plants on the Rant, nobody's against the plants themselves (I agree; what's not to like?) but beyond that, there's a range of opinion among the 4 of us, from frequent advocacy of native plants to disagreement with the natives-only position that's advocated by some. That's all. There's no one environmentally correct position on the subject - experts can and do disagree - and at the Rant we're all about introducing different voices on each subject as a way to promote discussion. (We're all about the conversation!) For example, we linked to Michael Pollan's very strong position against the nativist ideology (just google his name and "native plants" to find it in the New York Times) because it's such a SHOCK to his admirers. As long as the source is credible (not motivated by anti-green ideology or greed) I think it promotes healthy discussion. Our understanding of environmental issues are evolving, and we just try to stay openminded.
Anyway, the blogger at Pollinators Welcome, always chimes in with a comment that includes some excellent links to support her pro-native position and we LOVE her for doing it!



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