Mini Casa made this casa to celebrate Cold Climate Gardening. Cold Climate Gardening didn't make it and isn't affiliated with Mini Casa.
A blog about gardening in cold climates, with hardy plants and advice. Useful for gardeners in short-season regions.
Hardy plant choices and advice for flower gardeners in cold regions.
A directory for short-season gardeners, sorted into online information, gardens and gardeners, merchants, magazines, discussion forums and books. The page also links to a separate Upstate NY section.
Visit linkA regional section with pages for native plants, nurseries, regional blogs and discussion forums, plus a gardening trip to Ithaca. It also has Upstate NY Magazines and Upstate NY Books pages.
Visit linkA plant-info entry on hellebores, one of a run of plant pages that also covers hydrangeas, daylilies, narcissus and colchicums. The Plant info section also includes Mallow family and Peonies.
Visit linkThe site's focus is hardy plant choice for cold regions, and the directory is built around that. Blog posts follow the calendar: snowdrop events, mud-season pruning, forcing branches and a January walk. Brian Bixley writes guest posts, and his book is reviewed on the site with a link to buy it. Its magazine, forum and merchant listings give readers a route to local sources beyond the posts.
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