As an avid gardener, I spend a lot of time researching plants, looking up growing techniques,and checking out landscape design online. I also enjoy interior design, and frequent many home design blogs. One day I thought, “How come I haven’t seen any online journals for garden design?” Sure, there are a lot of great personal gardening blogs out there, but I really wanted a compendium of the best-of-the-best in gardening: tips, products, plants and anything else that would tickle a gardener’s fancy. Hence, The Gardening Journal sprouted.
About Meagan Van Beest
I have been digging in the dirt since I was old enough to toddle through my grandfather’s peas. Pa used to have a huge veggie patch (or so it seemed to my wee self), and I always delighted in the first juicy tomatoes in July and the refrigerator pickles he whipped up on hot August afternoons.
My Nana (grandmother), on the other hand, tended the flower garden. I remember how lovely her pink hollyhocks looked swaying in a hot summer breeze against their yellow house. Her rock garden, filled with low-growing evergreens and summer bulbs, greeted visitors at the end of their driveway.
My Mom and Dad have always had a garden to scratch in, too. Other than my crabby teen years, when I wished that I could just vaporize weeds with one surly glance so I wouldn’t get my fingers dirty, I have always tried to have a patch of earth (or even just a pot) in which to grow something.
While I had my formal schooling in the art of stringing words together (translation: yep, another English major), I have taken some local gardening classes and religously pursue gardening in books, magazines and online.
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