Digging is up for Better Homes and Gardens Blogger Award!
Better Homes and Gardens magazine has named Digging a top 10 finalist in the Gardening category of its 2015 Blogger Awards, and wow, I’m honored! Thank you to those who nominated my blog, and to BHG’s editors for the recognition!
I love how Better Homes and Gardens supports bloggers by featuring one in each issue of its magazine. It enlarges on that tradition with its 2nd annual Blogger Awards, which recognizes 6 categories of blogs, including one just for garden blogs. Not home and garden. Not lifestyle, fashion, and gardening. Just gardening. We plantaholics, hortheads, and garden-design junkies salute you, BHG!
Voting has already begun and continues for 6 weeks, and of course I’d love to have your vote. Feel free to stuff the ballot box because they tell me there’s no limit to how many times you can vote. VOTE here. Note: you’ll have to skip through the other categories to get to Gardening until the week of Mar 23-Mar 29, when the gardening category will be featured.
I promise not to mention it again until then because I don’t want to be a pest. I did put a badge on my sidebar with a link to the voting page. Just in case, you know, you feel like clicking over there. The winners, who will be announced March 30, will receive $200 and a mention in an upcoming issue of Better Homes and Gardens.
My congratulations to the other garden bloggers also nominated. I know some of them, I look forward to getting to know the others, and I’m honored to be in their company.
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Done! Go ahead and be a pest or at least put a reminder at the bottom of a post now and then since I’ll be busy this spring implementing all the gardening ideas and inspiration I find on Digging.
I’d never make a good campaigner. Maybe I’ll put a reminder at the bottom of my posts, but I really don’t want to bug anyone for 6 weeks. I will focus my vote-getting efforts on the week in which BGH promotes the gardening category. Win or lose, it’s just nice to be nominated. And thanks for your support, Shirley! —Pam
Congratulations on your well-deserved nomination! You’ve got my votes!
Plural, I like it. 😉 Thanks, Peter. —Pam
What an exciting prospect! National attention and from no less than the Oldest of the Old Guard! I know you’ll want to thank the academy and of course it must be a thrill just to be nominated… : )
You’ve worked long and hard to get to this point and it is all happy endings now you are getting the recognition you deserve. Win, lose, or draw, take a deep breath and enjoy!
I’ve been reading BGH for years and years, so I really am happy just to be recognized by them. Of course there are many other excellent blogs out there, just as deserving if not more so, and these things sometimes seem a bit random, but I’m enjoying it while it lasts. 🙂 —Pam
Congrats on the nomination! I’ve only heard of two of the other blogs, and only follow one of them (besides you). I hope you win. I’ll try to remember to vote every time I come here to read a new post.
Thank you, Alison! I am familiar with three others, and I’m a regular reader of Gardening Gone Wild. Now that I’ve discovered The Horticult I expect I’ll be a regular reader of it too. It’s got that SoCal vibe I enjoy. —Pam
Congratulations, Pam. I’ll keep on voting! What an accomplishment. I, too, hope you are already celebrating just the nomination.
Thank you, Gina! —Pam
How fun!! Enjoy and celebrate and vote!
Thanks, Tina! —Pam
Please remind us at least once or twice a week. I’ll try to remember, but that is not exactly my strong suit!
Mine either, Debi! I’ll think about putting a notice at the end of my posts. —Pam
I clicked to vote & could NOT find the gardening category …. Please help – I am not really that un-techie.
Margaret, you have to hit “Skip this category” (i.e. the last selection in each grouping) to page through the various categories – I think the gardening group comes up in the 4th or 5th iteration.
Kris is right, Margaret. There are 6 categories to vote for, but you can skip through the other categories to get to the Gardening one at the end. Each week BGH will be focusing on a different category, so the Gardening voting page will gradually move closer to the front (I think). —Pam
Congratulations and best wishes! I’m familiar with 3 of the other blogs but I think yours has the broadest appeal.
Why thanks, Kris! I’m glad you think so. 🙂 —Pam
Congrats Pam. I got to the Gardening category, but there are only 10 pictures and you’re not there…tried the side arrows, but I can’t bring up your picture. Maybe they put different ones each day. Will try tomorrow. I’m not too much of a techie, either.
Pam, 10 is the right number, and Digging is the first one listed in the Gardening category (it’s alphabetical). 🙂 —Pam
Wow Pam!! What a well deserved honor! Congratulations! I’ll vote every day and tell others also. Digging is such a great source of information and beauty. I always reccomend the blog to my friends and will forward it to those who are interested in a particular subject. Looking forward to you winning!
Thank you, Melody. I appreciate your support! —Pam
Done and hooray for you!! :o)
Thanks so much, Casa M! —Pam
Voting is easy
Yay! Thanks, Lisa. —Pam
Thanks to Kris P & Pam. I have voted only once so far – it’s the beginning of a long voting record…. Hats off to Pam for an outstanding blog.
Thanks for not giving up, Margaret, and I appreciate your kind words. —Pam
Congratulations!! I’m glad BH&G recognize with us that you have a GREAT blog site!! I knew we had good taste!!
Thanks for your kind words, S Michel! —Pam
Done! Fingers crossed for you, Pam.
Thank you, Denise! —Pam
I STUFFED the box for you:) i hope you Win! If you don’t, here’s something winning…I used to have a bunch of garden blogs on my IPad, but yours is the only one that remains:) you just “get it” I like do:) and of course, we MUST be right? Thanks for all of your hard work for us! Gardening in the Hill Country near Boerne …Laura aka Hastypearl
Ah, Hastypearl, you are the best! I’m very flattered by your kind words and love your enthusiasm! —Pam