CONSUMER TRENDS
Blogs
to Know
Even if your store doesn’t blog, it’s worth checking out what some of
your local bloggers — and maybe even some in the national spotlight
— are saying. Here are a few must-read blogs, written by everyday gar-
deners, professional garden writers and industry associations alike, from Managing Editor
Paige Worthy’s personal Google Reader list.
Mr. Brown Thumb: mrbrownthumb.blogspot.com
Kiss My Aster: www.hortmag.com/kissmyaster
The Garden of Words: thegardenofwords.wordpress.com
The Garden Plot: gardenplot.blogspot.com
Muddy Boot Dreams: muddybootdreams.blogspot.com
ANLA Management Clinic: www.managementclinic.org/blogs/clinic10
Garden Rant: www.gardenrant.com
Grow It. Eat It.: heatergirlie.blogspot.com
Urban Organic Gardener: www.urbanorganicgardener.com
Life on the Balcony: lifeonthebalcony.com
has something to share, usually something of your local gardening column because he
exciting about the garden. or she was involved in the local garden club,
It seems many of the people hired to do shopped in your garden center or was a friend
marketing and public relations for garden of a friend. Make an effort to get to know
centers are pruning the relationships from garden bloggers in your area and develop a
public relations. A happy medium exists — relationship that goes beyond just sending
for me — between the two examples I pro- them press releases when you get a new line
vided, one where building a relationship with of containers in.
your local garden bloggers takes center stage.
Personally, press releases and mass e-mails Find Your Bloggers
inform me of nothing more than the fact Don’t know if you have a garden blogger in
that you don’t know who I am. There was your area? Do a Google search for the name
probably a time when you knew the author of your garden center in quotation marks.
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