>I’m not sure I’m really keen on the format of a circulating “stylish blogger award”. However, I’m hugely flattered that Go Right In My Garden and Gardens Eye View have decided to recommend me like this.
In accepting this award, these are the things you should do:
1. Post linking back to the person that gave you the award.
2. Share 7 random things about yourself.
3. Award 15 recently discovered bloggers
4. Drop them a note, and tell them about it!
1: This is already done, and I can definitely recommend stopping by their blogs.
- Go Right In My Garden is based in Malaysia, and it’s one of the examples of how having a blog can introduce you to different parts of the world without leaving your home. And trust me; on a gray and cold evening in February in Denmark it is a wonderful act of escapism to visit a garden in the tropics. I might not be able to grow the plants she grows, but I can still take inspiration from her garden and the shapes and colours she uses.
- Gardens Eye View is from the opposite end of the world; New York. That climate is obviously much more comparable to the climate here in denmark, so this blog is not only inspirational, but also practical, like recent entry, Crazy for Columbines, shows.
2: When writing a hobby blog like this, I should think I scatter random information about myself throughout the entries. Sometimes relevant, sometimes more of an odd tangent… A list like this, though, would probably not be very enjoyable to read, so I’m skipping this part.
3: 15 is an awful lot, I think. And on second thoughts it’s far too few. If I just link to the list of blogs I follow, I hope I won’t have missed out too many.
Some, though, deserve special mention because they’ve actually played an important part in getting this blog off to a good start.
- Kathy Purdy over at Cold Climate Gardening was a very good help when I started this blog, directing me to sites like Blotanical where I’ve found loads of great blogs to follow – and also been found by a few readers, which is obviously part of what makes me continue this blog. After all, if I didn’t have at least a small audience, then I might as well just keep these jottings in a note book or on my laptop.
- Fer at My Little Garden in Japan is one of the bloggers I’ve encountered through Blotanical, and his World Garden Carnival is both a great gateway to other garden bloggers and a way to introduce others to your blog. He hosts the carnival once a month with a different theme each time, and you can get an overview over past carnivals by clicking this link.
I’d rather call this “recommendations” than “Stylish Blogger Awards”… Go, read, comment, enjoy!
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