Pick of the crop – Thursday edition

Written on February 11, 2010 at 2:32 pm , by David Speer

A nice wrap-up on the Seattle garden show.

Annie Spiegelman, also known as the Dirt Diva, has a new gardening book coming out Feb. 23. She’s funny, garden smart, and passionately organic. Check her out at her Dirt Diva website.

I’ve just been amazed by the number of gardening classes and seminars offered across the country (and around the world) listed on the internet the past couple of weeks. Like this one, this one, and this one. Oh, and this one. I can’t list them all here, so go to your favorite search engine and put in “gardening classes” plus the name of your city and see what pops up.

The Christian Science Monitor has a funny piece on the East Coast snowstorm and feeding backyard birds.

A Baltimore Sun blogger spends a snowy day dreaming about gardening.

We Love DC says winter is for gardening. This week, they are in the right place to know.

A 70-year-old cherry tree that Al Capone gave to a hospital split in half during a snowstorm.