How did you find me?

How did you find me? Let me count the ways...

1. Did you come across this blog just by a random search?

2. Did you come to this blog because you saw me mention it on my other blog?

3. Did you drive past my house and see my super-de-duper home made piece of cardboard sign? (There is a real sign on it's way here as I type this, really, I promise!)

The internet is the most amazing thing. It has made the world so much smaller. I can sit in my dining room here on Long Island (just east of New York City) and type on my lap top. The words I write are shared with people all over the world, people in other parts of the USA, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain and even Vietnam.

The reason I started this second blog is that Long Island is such a heavily populated area which has been blessed with a wonderful climate for gardening. (Frustratingly though it's raining yet once again.) There's got to be a better way to get the gardening word out here on this island. The reporters at our local papers are trying but the editors of the papers themselves haven't committed to the gardening community.

Yesterday an article about me came out in the local paper. I had hoped it would have this blog address so I could share my years of information with local gardeners. Unfortunately, the address for this blog wasn't there (I'm sure there was a space allotment and quite a bit had already been allocated to the article). To make matters worse, I must have given the wrong address for my other blog, Melanie's Old Country Garden so I don't even expect to meet more gardeners through that.

I do hope I find a better way to get the word out. By the way, those photos were not taken here although I grow almost everything you see in them. They were taken last summer while my mother and I toured Germany. See, when it comes to gardening, the world is right there in your own back yard.

It's raining too hard to even pretend I'm going to go out there. Guess I'll start cooking for Easter instead.

Melanie

Taking Flight

Today is not a day to take flight in the garden. In fact, one would need a row boat to get anywhere as it has been pouring!

Last Friday I received a phone call from a local newspaper asking if they could interview me in regards to my garden. We scheduled a meeting later that afternoon but the weather Gods laughed at us and threw a thunderstorm complete with hail in our way.

Ok, we rescheduled for today. Don and I spent all yesterday from 8:00 am until dark (7:30 pm) outside getting things to look slightly more organized. Sure enough we woke to torrential downpours again. Hmmm, is there a theme going on here?

The interview went on anyway, we did it over the phone. I chose photos I've taken in the past and e-mailed them over to the reporters office. It will be interesting to see which photo is chosen to accompany the article (this second photo above was one of them).

Still, weather woes won't keep me down. Last night I ordered a banner for my front yard so everybody who drives by knows that this is the home of Melanie's Perennials. There's still lots more to do but each day brings me a bit closer.

One of my goals this week (with more rain in the forecast) is to add to this blog so that it truly reflects the gardening needs and styles of the Long Island gardener. Of course I welcome all of you from other parts of the world, what works here will work in many other locals too. But, we have a large gardening community here on Long Island and I do hope to be able to share my 23 years of gardening knowledge with as many of you as possible.

Off to post something to my other blog, Old Country Gardens,

Here's hoping for some sunshine :-)
Melanie