Dear gardenlovers,

What is your favorite publication about gardening? What helps you to keep
your garden in good shape? What information do you lack? What is new/trendy
in gardening? All rocks and tiles and a few borders with plants and flowers,
or an eco garden? What makes you tick in gardening?

We are a group of students in Holland interested in ways to fill gaps in
information about gardening.

Green greetings:

Hans van Dijk

"Hans van Dijk" wrote in message
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Dear gardenlovers,

What is your favorite publication about gardening?

Gardeners World Magazine - Groei en Bloei

What helps you to keep your garden in good shape?

Hard work :~)

What information do you lack?

Not a lot - it's all here in URG

What is new/trendy in gardening?

See Chelsea, Hampton Court, GW Live etc

All rocks and tiles and a few borders with plants and flowers,
or an eco garden?

See http://members.rott.chello.nl/ldejag...ex.welcome.htm

What makes you tick in gardening?

Tropical, exotics, anything ubusual, cacti, caudiciforms

We are a group of students in Holland interested in ways to fill gaps in
information about gardening.

New magazine ??
New site ??
New newsgroup ??

Green greetings:
Hans van Dijk

Jenny

Hans van Dijk wrote in message
om...
Dear gardenlovers,

What is your favorite publication about gardening? What helps you to keep
your garden in good shape? What information do you lack? What is
new/trendy
in gardening? All rocks and tiles and a few borders with plants and
flowers,
or an eco garden? What makes you tick in gardening?

We are a group of students in Holland interested in ways to fill gaps in
information about gardening.

Green greetings:

Hans van Dijk

Hello Hans,

My favourite publication is "Planting Companions" by Jill Billington (Publ.
Ryland Peters & Small) (ISBN: 1 84172 010 0) (Price £14.99)

I help to keep my garden in shape with pure hard work, not being a
fairweather gardener and being self-critical. Mulching lends a hand.

New/trendy? I've never followed fashion, so it's hard to say. Limited use
of plants seem to be trendy, but that's not gardening to me. However, I do
perceive wildlife gardening to be close to the front line of 'fashion'.
It's sad that it takes fashion to put it there, but I hope it's here to
stay. Organic gardening is here, but not yet fashionable.

What makes me tick in gardening? Planning for wildlife, hearing the buzz
of wildlife, just being 'out there', encouraging and helping new gardeners.

Hope this helps, Hans. It would be really interesting to hear the results
of your survey.
Regards,
Spider

Hans van Dijk wrote:
:: Dear gardenlovers,
::
:: What is your favorite publication about gardening?
None, I use this newsgroup to ask questions and use internet
resources...publications tend to specialise in one area and most gardeners
(I think) like to have a bash at growing almost anything.

What helps you
:: to keep your garden in good shape? What information do you lack?

I keep the garden in a presentable condition, I don't preen it nor cut the
lawn with nail scisssors like my neighbour, for some people it becomes a
'quest', for me it's there for pleasure.
Any information I need, I ask in here and look through google's advanced
picture search:
http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en
(A note to anyone else reading this, you may want to add this link to your
favs, I've found it to be invaluable when looking for identifications and
you can stipulate which countries in the domain feild - UK, FR etc etc.)

:: What is new/trendy in gardening?

Not got a clue sorry!

All rocks and tiles and a few
:: borders with plants and flowers, or an eco garden? What makes you
:: tick in gardening?
::
Every garden is unique, as is every gardener, personally I like to play with
soil! :-)

:: We are a group of students in Holland interested in ways to fill
:: gaps in information about gardening.

snip.
Any information I need, I ask in here and look through google's advanced
picture search:
http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en
(A note to anyone else reading this, you may want to add this link to your
favs, I've found it to be invaluable when looking for identifications and
you can stipulate which countries in the domain feild - UK, FR etc etc.)

Thank you for the link, it does look very useful.

kate