Results on the April to May Landscaping Poll are presented.
According to the April to May Landscaping Poll, none of you Landscaping visitors read or look to English Gardens as a source of information. On the other hand, Country Gardens magazine tops the list with 55% of the vote. Garden Design receiving 27% of the vote; American Gardener and Fine Gardening each received 9%.
I subscribe to and read all of them - admittedly reading in some months and issues is more complete than in others. Each is uniquely different and has something special to offer its readers.
For example, English Gardening allows us a peak at what for most of us are exotic gardens. In the March, 2007 (10th Anniversary Issue) there was an article about "Tree Ferns in the Land of Thistle." Except of the dinosaurs, it can't get too much more exotic than this.
Reading Country Gardens is like curling up with a steaming hot cup of herbal tea and talking over the local plant and flea market sales with good friends. I have to admit I like my gardens a little more tidy than most of those pictured in this magazine...my fingers start to twitch and I want to reach inside the pictures and neaten the borders.
Now, reading Garden Design takes me into a dream-like landscape design world to which I can only aspire...so many wonderful, mostly modern, ideas! Alas, I have so little time and even less money!
I wish more landscape gardeners would look to Fine Gardening for practical how-to-do-it ideas...after reading Landscaping at Suite101, of course. This is a fine, very well-illustrated magazine that has its editorial offices almost down the black-top road from my garden here in Massachusetts.
American Gardener, the magazine of the American Horticultural Society, has its dedicated following as do many society magazines and newsletters. Reading its "Letters to the Editor" and "Regional Happenings" sections brings home the "club atmosphere" of this publication.
Your local library is a wonderful place to sample some of these publications. Most of these publications also archive selections portions here on the web.
