Search ITGO
Canning and Pickling
Please Support My Wonderful Sponsors!
Colleen’s Organic Gardening Blog at About.com
- About Those Ads...
- Wordless Wednesday: Tomatoes, Finally!
- Preserving the Harvest: Pickle Recipes from About.com Guides
- Fun Facts About Sunflowers
- Wordless Wednesday: Pretty Purple Coneflowers
- Reader Question: Cauliflower Turning Purple?
- Fast-Growing Cucumbers to Plant Now
- Wordless Wednesday: Cucumber Blossoms
Friends of ITGO
My Favorite Garden Blogs
- A Study in Contrasts
- Chiot’s Run
- Cold Climate Gardening
- Gardening Gone Wild
- Growing With Plants
- Ilona’s Garden Journal
- In My Kitchen Garden
- Kitchen Gardeners International
- Mr. Brown Thumb
- My Northern Garden
- My Skinny Garden
- Our Little Acre
- Pollinators-Welcome
- The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
- The Compost Bin
- The Gardener’s Pantry
- The Plant Hunter
- The Transplantable Rose
- Veggie Gardening Tips
- Zanthan Gardens
From the Archives
Gardenblogger Spring Fling ‘09
I promised myself that if/when there was a Spring Fling in Chicago, I’d go. It’s close, and I’ve always wanted to visit the Windy City. So it’s with a bit of a pout that I have to say that though the wonderful garden bloggers in Chicago have organized what is guaranteed to be a fabulous weekend, I can’t be there. The baby is due next month, and will only be a couple of months old at Spring Fling time. I’m just not comfortable travelling with a baby that young, or with taking off for a weekend, no matter how much fun the weekend looks to be.
However, you, my friends, should make every effort to get your butts to Chicago that weekend. You’ll get to hang out with your fellow garden bloggers, meet the people behind the blogs, and visit several wonderful public and private gardens. You’ll get to meet several of my favorite garden bloggers: Gina from My Skinny Garden, Mr. Brown Thumb, Mr. McGregor’s Daughter, and Carolyn Gail. I’m jealous just thinking about it.
The Chicago garden bloggers have set up a website about the event. Check it out, and keep checking because they are working on getting sponsorships (Proven Winners has already signed on as a sponsor—how great is that?) and getting group hotel rates for the garden bloggers.
Oh, and if you go, you have to promise to share your photos with me. One of these years, folks, I’ll make it to a Spring Fling. One of these years….
4 comments
4 comments to “Gardenblogger Spring Fling ‘09”
joey, January 28th, 2009 at 12:09 pm:
-
On again another snowy day, with warm thoughts of you and your ‘little Valentine’, Colleen!
Nancy Bond, January 28th, 2009 at 2:10 pm:
-
Hopefully, Spring Fling reaches the east coast one of these years.
gina, January 29th, 2009 at 7:03 am:
-
Colleen – thanks for the plug. I was still holding out hope that you’d abandon your newborn and still-young other kids to come hang out with us, but alas, motherhood prevails
MrBrownThumb, January 31st, 2009 at 8:53 am:
-
That’s too bad Colleen, was looking forward to meeting you but you’ve got more important things on your plate. Thanks for the plug.