Hi to all subscribers and contributors, from your editor:
Substack is booming. I have gone there: https://annewareham.substack.com/
Subscribe! You can, for free.
And there are some great writers and gardeners there. Try The Gardening Mind by Jo Thompson, for example https://jothompson.substack.com/
She demonstrates how Substack can create a whole community, a garden school, a discussion forum and much plant discussion:
This is a stolen photo to tempt you.
I think it’s possible that such platforms are the future. At least for as long as blogs were, once. Maybe it will be more than that – see https://substack.com/@hamish/p-147007031
As editor of thinkingardens I got tired of editing.
It involved finding contributors, negotiating their post, then editing and illustrating their post, publishing and promoting it. I wanted to make my garden at Veddw and write.
There is wonderful stuff on here. (thinkingardens)
I would love to add some of it to Substack if the authors would give permission.
I believe it’s possible to create a joint site on Substack, where people can add their own stuff. (Must investigate) Would you want to do that? I am not going to go back to editing though……
What do you think? Shall we go? Let me know what you think, thinkingardeners?
ANNE WAREHAM and CHARLES,
Your insights and comments are a GIFT to amateur gardeners like myself who published several automotive magazines for 30 years in the Old Fashioned way with typeset, wax paste up, send to printer who would deliver to USPostal System. You have become masters of electronic publishing, while I know nothing about Substack or the other programs. You have to decide…
Now I am TRYING to develop a walking botanic space/garden on 25 acres of woodland, swamp, and minor hills with stream and pond. There are all sorts of native plants from anemones, to calthas, to veratrum, to lobelias, amongts the oak, pine, beech, pepperbush, and wild blueberries.
By buying rhododendron, magnolias, gingkos, seven-sons, Ben Franklin, osage orange trees, I hope to diverisify the landscape in addition to building several stone walls with annual plantings above these for eye appeal. Oddball self-created sculptures abound.
The success rate on the plants surviving more than one or two years is about 60-75%.That’s getting expensive and self propagation from woody cuttlngs is very low. So your specific comments on different plants are a godsend to gardeners like me.
J. Austris Kruza, Franklin Massachusetts
Hi Anne.
I’m a bit of a, no a lot of, a neanderthal. Don’t really get Substacks. I’m sure it’s a thing… and I’ll be left behind. Good luck with it all.
Sue
Hi Sue
I’m not proposing to shut this website down,so you’ll still have access to anything on here.