I am a freelance writer with an emphasis on garden and country-related subjects.
Since October 2007 I’ve written a monthly Webwatch column, starting in Organic Gardening Magazine and now appearing in Kitchen Garden Magazine.
In that time I’ve found hundreds of garden-related sites - useful ones, fun ones, and just plain weird. An awful lot have made it into my column, but just as many haven’t, through no fault of their own, and it seemed a shame to neglect them.
Weeding the Web started with the idea of rounding up those websites in a garden writer’s guide to what’s on-line - a return to the original raison d'etre of weblogs, if you like. But it's turned into a bit more than that.
I'm always looking for good websites, though, either to mention here or in Kitchen Garden. So, if you’ve found a site worth talking about, or have one yourself, then please do give me a shout and I'll pay a visit.
By the way, when not writing, I garden. And the garden’s not untidy; I’m just kind to wildlife.
...Landscape Juice Network
Hi Helen - good to meet you on Monday. I hope you enjoyed Hampton Court as much as I did :)
Was there anything in particular which caught your eye?
Posted by: VP | Wednesday, 06 July 2011 at 04:01 PM
Hi, Michele. It was lovely to meet you too. Thoroughly enjoyed HC - thought it was particularly good this year. I've been horribly tardy about writing about it and have just enjoyed your blogposts. Picturesque was one of my favourite gardens too. Fundamentally Fungus was surely the least successful. And where do they really draw the line between conceptual and show?
Posted by: Helen Gazeley | Thursday, 07 July 2011 at 07:06 PM
The lines between conceptual and show were really blurred this year weren't they? I asked that question on the day (particularly re World Vision) and didn't really get an answer. It's been interesting to see that World Vision is listed in the HC programme as show, but according to the RHS website was awarded a gold in the conceptual category...
Posted by: VP | Thursday, 07 July 2011 at 07:22 PM
Yup, and the Eye of the Internet was entered as conceptual garden, but was asked to move to the Show Garden category.
Posted by: Helen Gazeley | Thursday, 07 July 2011 at 07:37 PM