Guest List
Are you new to garden blogging, or have you been doing it a few years? Do you use Blogger, WordPress, or Movable Type? Do you go with the default template, or do you have a highly customized site? Do you have a large web following or just write for friends and family? Whatever the case, at Garden Bloggers Spring Fling 2008 you’ll find other garden bloggers eager to share their experiences and opinions on a variety of issues: privacy, garden photography, content theft, monetizing your blog, increasing traffic. And that’s just the blog topics. Of course, we’ll talk about gardening, too.
We bet you want to know who is coming to the Spring Fling. . .
Garden bloggers who have already RSVP’d to join the fun this weekend include:
- Anneliese of CobraHead Blog, Cambridge, Wisconsin
Blogging since 2007 - Annie/Kathy of The Transplantable Rose, Austin
Blogging since 2006 - Barbara of Mr. McGregor’s Daughter, Chicago
Blogging since 2007 - Bill of Prairie Point, Gordon, Texas
Blogging since 2003 - Bonnie of Kiss of Sun, Austin
Blogging since 2007 - Brianna of Seeds, Austin
Blogging since 2008 - Carol and Ron of Lost Valley Gardens, Dripping Springs, TX
Blogging since 2003 - Carol of May Dreams Gardens, Indianapolis
Blogging since 2006 - Cindy of From My Corner of Katy, Katy, Texas
Blogging since 2007 - Dawn of Suburban Wildlife Garden, Austin
Blogging since 2007 - Dee of Red Dirt Ramblings, Guthrie, Oklahoma
Blogging since 2007 - Diana of Sharing Nature’s Garden, Austin
Blogging since 2007 - Elizabeth of Garden Rant and Gardening While Intoxicated, Buffalo, NY
Blogging since 2005 - Frances of Faire Garden, Tennessee
Blogging since 2007 - Gail of Clay and Limestone, Nashville, Tennessee
Blogging since 2008 - Geoff of CobraHead Blog, Austin
Blogging since 2007 - Julie of Human Flower Project, Austin
Blogging since 2004 - Karen of Savannah Garden Diary, Savannah, Georgia
Blogging since 2007 (since 2003 with another blog) - Kathy of Cold Climate Gardening, upstate New York
Blogging since 2002 - Laura of Greenfish Artist and Gardener, Covington, Louisiana
Blogging since 2007 - Lee of The Grackle, Austin
Blogging since 2007 - Libby of Aurora Primavera, Austin
Blogging since 2007 - Linda of Herself’s Houston Garden and Herself’s Houseplants, Houston
Blogging since 2007 - Lori of The Gardener of Good and Evil, Austin
Blogging since 2008 - Mary Ann of Idaho Gardener, Idaho
Blogging since 2005 - Melissa of Zanthan Gardens, Austin
Blogging since 2001 - Nancy of Nancy’s Garden Spot, Houston
Blogging since 2005 - Pam of Digging, Austin
Blogging since 2006 - Rachel of In Bloom, Austin
Blogging since 2007 - Robin of Bumblebee, Calvert County, Maryland
Blogging since 2007 - Susan of Garden Rant and Sustainable Gardening , Takoma Park, MD
Blogging since 2005 - Susan of Lifescapes, Texas Hill Country
Blogging since 2003 - Tom of Soul of the Garden, Austin
Posting since 2000 - Vertie/Suzanne of Vert, Austin
Blogging since 2008 - Vicki of Playin’ Outside, Austin
Blogging since 2008 - Vivé of Something About Blooming and Butterflies, Austin
Blogging since 2006 - Anne Marie Van Nest, Austin
President of Garden Writers Association (GWA); freelance writer; author of Niagara in Bloom: The Gardens of the Niagara Parks
While we are extremely grateful for non-blogging readers’ interest in attending, we regret that, due to space constraints at the meetings and on the tours, we must limit attendance to garden bloggers and a few honorary bloggers.
If family or friends travel with you to Austin, we’ve come up with a list of fun things to do in Austin during the garden-blogger events on Saturday, April 5. No events are planned for Sunday, leaving it open for sightseeing, day trips, or departure.
AS much as I’d loved to go to Austin this spring and meet up with you all, just can’t swing it this year between the big GWA trip to Portland and several East Coast day trips I have planned. Have a wonderful time and I hope this becomes a regular annual thing.
- Kathy Jentz, Washingtongardener.com
Thanks for the moral support, Kathy! —Pam
| Posted 5 years, 4 months agoThis sounds like great fun! Will have to check the schedule!
| Posted 5 years, 4 months agoI hope you can make the trek. — Melissa
I’ll be there. Thanks. Dee/reddirtramblings
| Posted 5 years, 4 months agoWe’re thrilled you can come. Look forward to meeting you. — Melissa
I’d love to be there. I thought I’d emailed earlier to RSVP, but it must have gotten lost in the wilds of the internets…
Nancy, I’ll double-check with Pam and see what happened. We don’t want anyone to get left out. — Melissa
Sorry about that, Nancy. Thanks for letting us know (again) that you’re coming. Can’t wait to meet you! —Pam
| Posted 5 years, 3 months agoI can’t wait to get there and to meet all of you!
| Posted 5 years, 3 months agoMe, either! This is getting really exciting. — Melissa
I plan on being there! Can’t wait to meet you all.
Leigh of A Larrapin Garden
http://larrapin.blogspot.com
blogging since 2007
We’re delighted to hear it, Leigh. Thank you for letting us know. An email with more info will be coming soon. —Pam
| Posted 5 years, 3 months agoAs a newbie blogger, I wish I could join you – maybe next year. But in the meantime I’ll keep using your sites for inspiration! Thanks for all of it.
You’re welcome, and thanks for leaving a comment, Risa. Your blog is delightful, so full of good information and beautiful photos. —Pam
| Posted 5 years, 3 months agoAs a garden blogger, may I ask : Is it too late to be included in the Spring Fling in Austin? I have family there, so accommodations will not be a problem.
My additional website: tellmeastory.us
- joe paris
Definitely not, Joe. We hope you’ll join us. Shall I add you to the guest list and send you the meal reservation info? —Pam
| Posted 5 years, 3 months agoI’ll be in Austin in spirit on behalf of http://www.gardendesignonline.com
But with commitments already to Garden Writers and The Association of Professional Landscape Designers, Texas is a little too far this year.
How about planning some other sessions in other parts of the country?
Jane Berger
Hi, Jane. The second Garden Bloggers Spring Fling will certainly be a topic of discussion during this event. Thanks for your comment. —Pam
| Posted 5 years, 2 months agoI would love to go, but my SO works that day and I have to watch my daughter (I don’t have any family here, so no babysitters) – maybe next year if this becomes an annual thing.
| Posted 5 years, 2 months agothis is great for you guys to meet in real world
that would be fun to see all of you together. I read your blogs, I see your gardens – meeting in reality the gardens with the gardener – that’s something 
| Posted 5 years, 1 month agoGreetings from over Poland