Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Snowdrop Update and Blog Tinkering
Thought I'd show you how the snowdrops fared after my Bloom Day post.
We got a surprise snowstorm on Thursday - about 4 or 5 inches. Oh well.......it is winter.
Shirl kindly provided a link to a video showing how to plant snowdrops in-the-green, and that got me started snowdrop surfing. I turned up some interesting web pages. Several of these mention Hitch Lyman, who is seemingly the only purveyor of snowdrops in-the-green in the US. If you know of any others, please share.
- Cold Climate Kathy's post about snowdrops and Hitch Lyman prompted me to send for his catalog a couple of years ago.
- Last March the Washington Post's garden editor wrote about snowdrops, Hitch Lyman, and The March Bank at Winterthur.
- The Transatlantic Plantsman has a photo of a very enviable stand of snowdrops - escaped from cultivation. Maybe that's the secret - toss them in a ditch and see what grows.
I've been doing some tinkering around the edges of the blog. My right-column blogroll had gotten very out of sync with my reading habits - I had been using Bloglines but came to prefer Google Reader and so didn't keep the Bloglines list up-to-date. I'm still working on merging the two lists. And I changed the format to try to make it easier to read, but that typeface looks rather small to my aging eyes.
Yesterday while looking for something else, I came across a snippet of Blogger template code to display the name of each commenter on the main page (i.e. you don't have to click the "comment" link to see who has commented). I tried it out, but I'm not sure whether I like it or not. One of the things I don't like is that the commenter's name isn't linked to the comment, but to the commenter's Blogger profile page (or some other web page in the case of non-Blogger commenters). We're getting into the political season here in the US and polls are all the rage everywhere, so how about helping me decide this issue?
Labels: blogroll, snow, snowdrops, template
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Tinkering
Don't look now, but I'm tinkering with the layout of the blog. I want to add a third column on the right so I have room for a blogroll, and some other things.
This might be a good time to explain why I don't have a blogroll. When I started the blog almost 4 years ago, there were hardly any other garden blogs. I think I didn't even know about those few that were around then. Time passed and eventually I came to know that there were many many many garden blogs. In order to have a blogroll, I would have to judge which blogs to include and which to exclude. Too much pressure. And besides I'd have to change the blog template or have a very long column of text on the left. And I had to create my own template, because I wanted it to be unique. So I just didn't do it. But now, with so many kind souls having linked to my blog, I think at least I ought to reciprocate.
And I'd kind of like to add some links to various other favorite sites, or maybe put a LibraryThing widget there, or...? So....the blog may look a little odd before I'm finished playing with it.
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