One thing I’ve always loved about garden blogging is the sense of community we have in our little (though not as little as it used to be) niche. I’ve had so much fun participating in things like the Garden Bloggers Book Club and Garden Bloggers Bloom Day sponsored by Carol over at May Dreams Gardens, as well as the Design Workshops sponsored by the crew at Gardening Gone Wild. And, of course, the Mousies were a blast for me because I got to discover new blogs and see some of my favorite gardenbloggers get some deserved recognition.

So I’m really excited to be collaborating with Mr. Brown Thumb on Gardenbloggers GROW. GROW participants will all be growing the same plant and reporting monthly on its progress. For our inaugural project, we’re very thankful to Renee Shepherd of Renee’s Garden Seeds for donating seeds for Nasturtium ‘Spitfire,’ a climbing nasturtium that I’ve been coveting since I saw it on a few blogs last year.

We only have a few spots left for this first round, so if you’re interested I hope you’ll hop over to the Gardenbloggers GROW site and sign up. And if you don’t make it this time around, no worries — we’re hoping to continue the project and even expand it into other areas of gardening in the future.