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Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

2012-02-08T18:01:17Z

Spring is certainly in the air. My crocus, early daffodils and species tulips are making their garden appearance earlier than they ever have before. I'll have to post a shot of my first fresh-from-the-garden spring bouquet. Fine Gardening and Leaf are both good and reliable.

Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

2012-02-07T12:14:47Z

Good to know. If it makes you feel any better they have no season sense either. Spring is in the air and the winter wilder missed the boat.

Comment on The Bulbs Say It's Too Warm

2012-02-05T19:47:29Z

TY for this blog. The ants and ticks have been bad enough in the last two years. Give me a little more winter any day.

Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

2012-02-01T15:41:12Z

Thank you. I'm moving.

Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

2012-02-01T15:33:08Z

Everyone who knows and has worked with you knows what a talent you are. They lost out. Move on.

Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

2012-01-30T12:50:48Z

LOL! "Hobnobbing with "influencers!" How trendy and chichi mon ami.

Comment on 2009 Vegetable Winners

2012-01-28T22:07:31Z

I've found this blog great.

Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

2012-01-28T14:06:42Z

I'm a professional horticulturist and educator first, garden writer second. I'm not going to knowingly feed ANYONE false information. If loads of mistakes are made in association with my work, it's my job to correct them.

Anyway, professionals notice, and the garden writing world is small. This is a shout out to garden savvy folks as well as those just learning the basics.

Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

2012-01-28T13:58:13Z

but your drawing attention to the problems. I doubt readers noticed if editing was right or wrong.

Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

2012-01-28T13:20:39Z

To the gardener, plant names mean everything because plant names aren't just for flowery effect; plant names define biological entities with unique desirable or undesirable characteristics. And be reasonable. If I write about tiny, crisp, round, orange 'Parmex Baby Ball' carrots, it looks stupid to proffer an erroneous corresponding picture showing loads of gloriously long, pointy, multi-colored roots. And cabbages identified as rare western native red monkey flowers? C'mon. You can't just throw names at pictures in this business.

At Learn2grow.com I've personally identified plants in over 60,000 photos over the years. It's my specialty. Would it have killed the WQ editors to let me ID plants in the photos? I offered to numerous times. And if not me, how about another plant nerd? Clearly, they didn't care. The knew they were throwing false names at pretty pictures.

So, yes I'm crabby. Crabby enough to want to thoroughly disassociate myself from these silly, discrediting mistakes.
Wilder Quarterly is otherwise a pretty, eloquently written garden magazine. But, I should never have allowed them to call me horticultural editor when they would not allow me to properly edit ALL horticultural content. (So, maybe I'm a little crabby with myself too.)