Regional Garden Gurus Site Launches

SUSTAINABLE = REGIONAL

Creating a sustainable garden requires gardening in a manner appropriate to that site--soil, temperature, precipitation,and light all impact what type of plants will or will not thrive. The best gardening advice is definitely local, which is the driving principle behind a new website called Regional Garden Gurus .

Guru, here, refers to writers, teachers, and designers providing sound regional gardening information, using articles, podcasts, videos, and interesting links for the region they write about.

THE FOUNDING GURUS

Don Engebretson (pictured above), the Renegade Gardener, is an award winning garden writer and designer hailing from the cold regions of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Don writes with humor about the trials and tribulations of gardening in USDA Zones 2-4.

Susan Harris, of Sustainable-Gardening, is also one of the guiding forces behind the award-winning blog, Garden Rant. You can also check out her sustainable gardening videos at MonkeySee for general information. She writes and lives in the muggy region of Washington, D.C., USDA hardiness Zones 4-7.

Ginny Stibolt is a horticulturist and writer in the northern reaches of Florida. Her new book, "Sustainable Gardening for Florida" is due out in 2009. Adventures of a Transplanted Gardener is her site where her naturalist commentary also includes podcasts of her radio show.

And last, but not least, there is me--working on the high plains of the Rocky Mountain region.

We're looking for more gurus, if you or someone you know is interested in writing about a region in the US, just drop me a line at dryideas at gmail dot com.