Question: Who Do You Follow On Twitter?
Twitter is a fabulous resource for garden info, lore, humor, pictures and sympathy. Here are some of the people (aka tweeps) I follow on Twitter. I have listed them in no particular order with a brief summary of why I follow them.
Answer:
- @Arcadia1 - A kind and gentle spirit with a fabulous design sense. Her container gardens totally rock - she's funny and sweet.
- @C_Vanderlinden - Colleen is the Guide to organic gardening for About.com. She is feisty, kind and knows oh so much about organic gardening, and can disseminate that knowledge with kindness and compassion.
- @SeasonalWisdom - Teresa is another funny, kind, and way smart garden writer. Her tweets inform, enlighten and amuse.
- @Oakleafgreen - Andy is a lovely presence on Twitter. He always comes up with cool plants and is generous with humor and knowledge.
- @Indigogardens - Lynn's containers rock and roll. Her pictures are fabulous. She is lovely and knowledgeable. She writes and tweets beautifully.
- @Gardenwiseguy - Billy is irascible, incorrigible, talented and funny. I love his "take no prisoners," style of writing and tweeting.
- @TheresaLoe - Theresa has the prettiest, pluckiest chicken around (sorry I couldn't resist). She is also a terrific blogger and her tweets are always sweet, smart and funny.
- @Cityslipper - Daniel is a passionate gardener and a great blogger, who shares my loathing of upside down gardening. His tweets are delightful and insightful.
- @HelenYoest - Helen is an extraordinary gardener and writer. Her tweets are always worth reading.
- @aHaModernLiving - Jayme has style, wit and humor all wrapped up. She adds spice and energy to Twitter.
- @Sweetrebecca - Rebecca certainly sweet, but she's also smart and sassy and her gardens, as well as her containers, will make you swoon.
- @Susancohan - Susan is an amazing landscape designer and writer of the wonderful "Miss Rumphias' Rules" blog. Susan's tweets are interesting and engaging.
- @PatFitzGerald - Patrick knows plants. He breeds them and clearly loves and respects them. I have to say though, my favorite of his tweets are his pictures of pints in the local pubs (though I find myself drooling when I see them).
- @Michelle_at_FG - Michele is enthusiastic, knowledgeable and generous. She rallies the twitter world with energy and zest.
- @Douggreen - I'm a huge admirer of Doug Green's writing. He has encyclopedic gardening knowledge, humor and is just enough of a curmudgeon to be totally delightful.
- @susanlmorrison - Susuan shares insights, pictures and humor, all in equal measure and with aplomb.
- @InterLeafer - Laura, a self-described design diva and garden writer is all that. Her tweets are kind, insightful and interesting.
- @Torontogardens - Sarah is funny, generous and knowledgeable. She makes me laugh and think - a great combination.
- @kate_frank - Lovely and kind. I look forward to her tweets because they always engage and enlighten.
- @CanarsieBK - Mike is a new tweep I follow. This guy has urban moxie. He gardens and twitters like a fiend.
- @JeanAnnVK - Jean Ann is smart, funny and and sassy in equal measure. Her tweets are interesting and thought provoking.
- @MrBrownThumb - Ramon is thoughtful, kind, takes knock-out pictures and shares wonderful garden info and stories.
- @Shibaguyz - Outrageous, spontaneous, knitting, gardening, funny and dangerous to follow because they will make you laugh and put annoying songs in your head.
- @AboutGardening - Marie is a gardeners gardener. She is beyond generous and patient. She doesn't tweet much, but when she does it's worth looking for.
- @Treesandshrubs - Vanessa is a tree goddess. She is encyclopedic while being entertaining and engaging.
- @Gardenofwords - Cheerful, funny, generous and wrote a fabulous post on Gen Y.
- @KatWhiteDesigns - Funny, irreverent, writes a great blog with lovely pictures.
- @Karibaskets - The queen of gorgeous colorful baskets. I love to see what she's up to.
- @DebraLBaldwin - I've always been a huge fan of succulents, but Debra's pictures and take on succulents has opened up a whole new door of perception for me.
- @ShawnaCoronado - Green living, nudist gardening, container enthusiast.
- @Thegerminatrix - Ivette, aka the Germinatrix, is a self-described plant fiend. She can also write like a demon and take gorgeous pictures. She's funny and saucy and her energy on Twitter is a tonic.
- @SusanReimer - Susan is a fabulous writer - she's funny, incisive and I love her attitude. Her tweets are generous and interesting.
- @Proven_Winners - I'm a huge fan of the Proven Winners website and I like their plant of the day Tweet.
- @betweenthelimes - Lovely and interesting.
- @WildBoarFarms - My tomato guru.
- @punkrockgardens - Sweet, interesting and real.
- @AnniesAnnuals - Plants and tweets that totally rock. Funny, fizzy and generous with her voluminous plant knowledge.
- @emilyoftexas - Because I love her art, her donkeys and reading about her life, which is just so very different than mine.
- @TMTenterprises - Matt is sweet, funny and generous. He adds new meaning to talking dirt - because he thinks green and knows his soil.
- @scotthokunson - Scott's tweets are passionately green with the knowledge and chops to back them up.
- @LifeOnTheBlcny - Fern has great style, information and her website rocks.
- @GardenWiseInc - Great tweets. Generous, interesting, never boring.
- @HappyChickens - Orren is a 13 year-old, chicken farming, worm growing, blog-writing amazement. Lovely guy with great tweets.
- @CostaFarms - Great information, links, tweets and knowledge about plants and the industry.
- @GreenSoil - Rancher turned compost tea guru. Her tweets are interesting and sweet. Her tweets help keep the gardening community alive and thriving.
- @bwisegardens - Barbara is an extreme container gardener. Her tweets are full of great photos and ideas.
- @DaffodilPlanter - Lots of interesting, stylish and sweet tweets.
- @CoastalHG - Lovely magazine, generous and beautiful tweets.
- @OurLittleAcre - Kylee is full of information, endlessly cheerful and generous with information.
- @BackyardWisdom - Great tweets full of information and great links.
- @joegardener - Joe's tweets have great info and links to his kicking TV show, Growing a Greener World.
- @GardenMag - Wonderful tweets full of sweet links and great gardening ideas and insights
