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Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

Jessie Keith — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:17 GMT

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

sandcastle — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:14:47 GMT

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.

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Anna — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:47:29 GMT

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

Jessie Keith — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:41:12 GMT

Thank you. I'm moving.

Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

Danny — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:33:08 GMT

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

Tulip Tramp — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:50:48 GMT

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

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Alex — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:07:31 GMT

I've found this blog great.

Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

Jessie Keith — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:06:42 GMT

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

Shane at 12B — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:58:13 GMT

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

Comment on Wilder Quarterly Volume I Corrections

Jessie Keith — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:20:39 GMT

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.)