I learned a thing or two from this story in today’s Free Press:
- The original New York Times article on the subject reported on the "growing demand for people who work as garden coaches." Hell, yeah!
- There’s such a thing as the Michigan School of Gardening, started in 1996, with 1,600 students and counting. I noticed there’s a class called GardenWalk but it’s nothing like the Buffalo and Chicago Walks; it’s about walking your own garden and learning from it. Yet another great definition of the term.
- The enterprising owners of that school also created the Practical Gardening Institute to dispense even more good gardening information. Looks like they’re doing lots of things right in Michigan.
- My ambitiously named WorldWide Directory of Gardening Coaches might just be having an impact. It got these fine Michigan gardeners a little publicity, after all.
Great story, Marty, and thanks for the link to GardenRant.
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Ed Bruske 08.03.07 at 8:17 am
Sounds like there’s a lot of gardening going on in Detroit…
Stuart 08.03.07 at 7:39 pm
That’s great news Susan. There’s very little press here in Australia about garden coaches and it seems the idea hasn’t even started its infancy yet. People are still being weaned off Backyard Blitz and garden rescue programs.
Dixie Leihy 08.05.07 at 10:49 pm
I have 2 lilacs, one purple and one yellow, that have huge leaves this year. The larger bush has leaves that are six inches wide and seven and a half inches long. What would cause the leave to grow so large? They weren’t that big last year!