Reading a garden blog gives you a glimpse over the proverbial garden fence and opens the door to a conversation with the gardener. Listed below are some garden blogs I enjoy reading, starting with those from Austin, followed by other U.S. blogs, and rounding out the list with garden blogs from around the world. And for all you listeners out there, I’ve included some podcasts at the end of this page.
Consider this a mere sampling of all the wonderful garden blogs and podcasts being published. So many new ones have debuted in recent years that I haven’t been able to keep up with them all. My hope is that you’ll find this list useful primarily as a jumping-off point for discovering new voices.
Enjoy your garden visits!
AUSTIN GARDEN BLOGS
TEXAS (outside of Austin) and U.S. GARDEN BLOGS
Art of Gardening — Buffalo, New York
AZ Plant Lady: Ramblings from a Desert Garden — Phoenix, Arizona
Botanica Chaotica — Willamette Valley in Oregon
Chickadee Gardens — Portland, Oregon
Clay and Limestone — Nashville, Tennessee
Cold Climate Gardening — Upstate New York
Creative Living with Bren Haas — Ohio
Danger Garden — Portland, Oregon
Dirt Therapy — Vancouver, Washington
Dry Oasis — San Francisco Bay Area, California
Flatbush Gardener — Brooklyn, New York
The Fling (formerly Garden Bloggers Fling) — United States & beyond
The Garden Diaries — Maryland
Garden in a City — Chicago, Illinois
Garden Rant — United States
GardenBook — Northern California
A Growing Obsession — Los Angeles, California
A Guide to Northeastern Gardening — Long Island, New York
Hayefield — Bucks County, Pennsylvania
It’s a Dry Heat — El Paso, Texas
Late to the Garden Party — Los Angeles, California
Marianne Willburn — Lovettsville, Virginia
May Dreams Gardens — Indianapolis, Indiana
Miss Smarty Plants — Orlando, Florida
Natural Gardening — Asheville, North Carolina, and Bas St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada
pbmGarden — Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Piece of Eden — Southern California
Plant Postings — Southern Wisconsin
PLANT•ED Blog — Nacogdoches, Texas
Prairiebreak — Denver, Colorado
The Queen of Seaford — Greenwood, South Carolina
Red Dirt Ramblings — North Central Oklahoma
Succulents and More — Davis, California
A Way to Garden — Hudson Valley, New York
Window on a Texas Wildscape — Texas Hill Country
TZ Garden — Livermore, California
INTERNATIONAL GARDEN BLOGS
Andrea Whitely Blog — Perth, Australia
Elephant’s Eye on False Bay — Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Garden Amateur — Sydney, Australia
Garden Dreaming at Châtillon — Lorraine, France
Glen Villa Art Garden Blog — Quebec, Canada
The New Perennialist — Ontario, Canada
The Paintbox Garden — Ontario, Canada
Veg Plotting — Wiltshire, United Kingdom
PODCASTS
A Way to Garden by Margaret Roach — Hudson Valley, New York
Cultivating Place by Jennifer Jewell — Chico, California
The Garden Mixer by Leslie Harris and Marianne Willburn — Charlottesville, Virginia, and Washington, DC
The Garden Question Podcast by Craig McManus — Douglasville, Georgia
The Horticulturati by Leah Churner and Colleen Dieter — Austin, Texas
The Plantastic Podcast by Jared Barnes — Nacogdoches, Texas
Slow Flowers by Debra Prinzing — Seattle, Washington