Top 100 Gardening Blogs

With spring weather on the horizon, it's time to start thinking about gardening. Whether you love to work in your own garden or simply help others with the construction of their dream backyards, there's plenty of reading material out there for professionals and amateurs alike. Here are 100 blogs that cover a wide range of gardening topics to help you keep up with news, find advice, share stories, or learn more about everything botanical.

General

These posts offer news, information and gardening basics for enthusiasts.

  1. Garden Rant: This group of gardening bloggers talks about a wide range of topics from news to ideas to use in your own garden.
  2. Art of Gardening: Here you'll find gardening inspiration from this blogger's travels.
  3. Plant Talk: Check out this blog for plant tips, news and more from the New York Botanical Garden.
  4. Home Gardening News: This site collects news and advice from home gardening sites around the web so you can find it in one easy place.
  5. Gardening Examiner: Robin Ripley offers her expertise on this blog full of tips, products and news.
  6. About.com Gardening: Through this site, you can find a lot of great basic information on gardening.
  7. You Grow Girl: This gardening gal muses on all kinds of gardening topics here.
  8. Gardening Resources: Get basic advice and information on creating a beautiful garden through this blog.
  9. Landscaping and Gardening Info: From controlling weeds to growing great onions, you'll find lots of help here.
  10. To Build a Garden: Check out this site for great articles on gardening.
  11. Green Side Up: This site aims to make creating a garden something anyone can do simply.

Advice

Check out these blogs for some advice on creating a better garden and happier plants. 

  1. A Way to Garden: Find gardening information and inspiration on this blog.
  2. Nature Hills Gardening Neighborhood: This site brings together the advice and expertise of several gardening blogs.
  3. Gardener's Journal: Gardener's Supply Company maintains this informative blog.
  4. My Garden School Blog: Whether you need to know how to by a spade or create a compost garden, this blog has the advice you need.
  5. Bloomtown: This blogger shares horticultural tips, ideas and advice.
  6. Gardening Tips and Ideas: You can learn a variety of things that will help you create a better garden from this blog.
  7. In the Garden: Bill Cary answers all of your puzzling garden and horticultural questions on this site.
  8. Gardening Care Tips: Try out this site to get some ideas on building a better backyard garden.
  9. The Gardening Coach Blog: You don't have to be a gardening coach to benefit from the advice offered here.
  10. Greenhouses and Gardening: Learn more about building a greenhouse and keeping plants alive inside from this blog.
  11. Aquaponics Gardening Blogs: If you've ever considered trying out aquaponics, you can get the advice you need to get started from this blog.
  12. Gardener's Tips: This UK-based blog is a great place to find all kinds of helpful tips on gardening.

Landscape Design

These blogs are a great place to learn about landscape design projects both big and small.

  1. Landscape Juice: This blog can help you learn more about the landscaping industry.
  2. Pruned: Try out this blog to see the latest news in landscape architecture.
  3. Studio G: On this site you'll find inspiring and interesting posts from a landscape designer.
  4. Design Under Sky: Check back with this blog often to see new ideas in landscape architecture and environmental design.
  5. World Landscape Architect: Learn more about landscape architecture projects around the world from this blog.
  6. Garden Wise Guy: This blogger focuses on sustainable landscape design.
  7. GardenVisit.com: Learn more about landscape and garden design in places close to home and far flung alike through this site.
  8. Landscape Design Blog: Ask questions and read articles on this landscape design site.
  9. Landscape Design: This site is full of beautiful photos and informative articles about landscape design in South Africa.
  10. Landscape Design: Hatch: Check out this blog for great photos and links to information on landscaping and gardening.

Gardening Enthusiasts

Share your passion for gardening with these enthusiasts. 

  1. Garden Amateur: This Australian gardener has 18 years of experience under his belt.
  2. The Manic Gardener: Kate Gardner lives in Montana and shares tips and ideas on organic gardening in this blog.
  3. Girl Gone Gardening: Keep up with the gardening seasons with posts from this blogger.
  4. This Garden is Illegal: Here you'll find a blogger that is obsessed with gardening, posting on gardening plans, ideas and everything else.
  5. My Back 40 (Feet): This San Francisco-based blogger may not have a big yard, but he does the best he can with the small space.
  6. The Occasional Gardener: The name of this blog might be a bit misleading as the blogger gardens more than occasionally.
  7. Digging: Learn how this blogger turns a patch of dirt into something more in this blog.
  8. An Instrument of Grace: This gardener and blogger will teach you how to see the beauty and grace in gardening.
  9. Get in the Garden: Read through this blog to get tips and ideas on building a better garden from this gardening fanatic.
  10. The Garden Professors: Here you can get expert advice and information on gardening from horticulture professors.

Small Space and Urban

Even if you don't have a big backyard or any yard at all, these blogs offer advice on growing plants.

  1. Chicago Garden: This blog is maintained by a blogger called Mr. Brown Thumb, but it represents all the gardening goings-on in the city.
  2. Urban Gardens: Read this blog for ideas on how to turn your limited city outdoor space into a great garden.
  3. Backyard Gardening: No matter how big or small your backyard, this blog is full of great tips on making gardens work.
  4. Urban Garden Solutions: Get tips and solutions for small space gardening here.
  5. Container Gardening Magazine: If you don't have a yard, you can use this blog as a guide for growing plants in containers.
  6. Urban Garden Deco Guide: Make your urban garden stylish with tips found here.
  7. Heavy Petal: This blogger shows how small box gardens can still let you grow a big variety of plants.
  8. Urban Garden Casual: Get some great ideas on growing plants in the urban setting from this blog.
  9. Urban Veggie Garden Blog: Just because you live in the city doesn't mean you can't enjoy home-grown produce, as this blog shows.
  10. The Urban Gardener: Learn more about what it takes to grow gardens in the urban environment here.
  11. Chicago Urban Gardening: Ron Wolford is an Urban Horticulture Educator who shares his expertise in this blog.

Food Focused

Those keeping gardens for food production will enjoy these great reads. 

  1. Your Small Kitchen Garden: Even if you don't have a lot of room, you can learn how to grow food to eat from this blog.
  2. The Inadvertent Gardener: This blogger shares tips and ideas on how to get the best produce from your garden.
  3. Veggie Gardening Tips: Get all kinds of tips and tricks for your vegetable garden here.
  4. Bifurcated Carrots: Learn more about heirloom-variety gardening on this blog.
  5. Growing Groceries: Why go to the grocery store when this blog will show you how to become an expert gardener?
  6. The Veggie Patch Reimagined: Read this blog to learn how to make the most of your veggie patch.
  7. Veggie Gardener: Find all the information you'll need to start a vegetable garden here.
  8. Gardening for My Family: This blog is written by a young girl on a mission to grow vegetables for her family to eat.
  9. Harvest to Table: Get recipes and tips on growing produce through this site.
  10. In the Garden Online: On this site you can find a wealth of articles on growing edible plants.
  11. The Slow Cook: This DC-based blog will help you learn to use fresh produce to create healthy meals.

Flower and Herb

Learn more about raising flowers and herbs in the garden from these blogs.

  1. Cincinnati Cape Cod: This blogger shares her love of flowers, gardening, and other things through this blog.
  2. The Transplantable Rose: Check out this blog for great posts and photos of flowers and gardens in Austin.
  3. May Dreams Gardens: Try out this blog for advice and information on creating a beautiful flower garden.
  4. Roots and Flowers: This blog is a great place to find herb-growing tips and ideas on how to use your harvest.
  5. Betsy's Herb Garden: Here you'll find lots of posts all about herbs.
  6. The Herb Gardener: Learn more about growing and using herbs from this blog.

Type Specific

These blogs focus on topics like trees, cacti, orchids and succulents.

  1. Cactus Blog: Learn about the wide variety of cacti out there from this blog.
  2. Aboreality: If you love the variety of trees out there, you'll appreciate this blog all about them.
  3. Orchidaceous: This blog is perfect for the orchid enthusiast.
  4. Lophophora: Bookmark this site if you love growing cacti indoors or out.
  5. Succulent Life: This blogger shares her love of succulents big and small on this site.
  6. Sensational Succulents: Try out this blog to learn more about succulents.

Environmentally Conscious

Read through these blogs for helpful information on sustainable and organic gardening. 

  1. Ecosystem Gardening: Through this blog, you can learn how to create a garden that provides a habitat for wild species.
  2. Garden of Eaden: Read through this blog to find organic gardening advice that will help you produce an environmentally friendly garden.
  3. Sustainable and Urban Gardening: On this site you'll find tips and articles about creating gardens that don't hurt the earth and can grow just about anywhere.
  4. The Growing Edge: Learn more about large-scale sustainable gardening on this site.
  5. Natural Gardening: This wildlife gardener shares thoughts about creating a nature-friendly backyard here.
  6. Going Green Gardening: This blog will teach you the most important aspects of green gardening.
  7. Sustainable Garden: Try out this site for reading material on staying organic in your gardening.

Region Specific

Learn more about the plants and climate of specific areas of the United States in these blogs.

  1. Gardening Fun in New Brunswick: This garden blog is full of great tips for gardening no matter where you live.
  2. Gardening in Central Florida: Here you'll find a range of gardening information for those growing plants in a warmer climate.
  3. Cold Climate Gardening: If you live in a colder climate, however, like this blogger, this site is a great resource for advice.
  4. Gardening in Vermont: You don't have to live in Vermont to appreciate the help and inspiration this blog offers.
  5. New England Gardener: Whether you live in New England or in a area with a similar climate, you can find ideas of what to grow, tips on how to grow it and inspiration to get you started.
  6. New York City Garden: Find gardening tips for living in New York City on this site.
  7. Garden in Bethlehem, PA: Enjoy the pictures and information this blog offers about living and gardening in Pennsylvania.

Public Gardens

Even if you can't keep a garden of your own, you can enjoy the posts from these beautiful public gardens.

  1. Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden: Based in Richmond, Virginia, this conservatory and garden is a great place to spend an afternoon. Check out their blog to see what's in bloom.
  2. Garden Seeds: The Scott Arboretum at Swathmore College posts about their garden on this blog.
  3. Denver Botanic Gardens: Even if you can't make it out to Denver, you can appreciate the photos of their gardens on this blog.
  4. The Garden Variety: The Cleveland Botanical Garden shares its events and information about its collections on this site.
  5. Etaerio: Check out this blog to learn more about the UBC Botanical Garden.
  6. Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden: This Belmont, North Carolina, garden offers photos and information about their public gardens here.
  7. Queens Botanical Garden: Whether you're in New York, want to plan a trip or just want to see what they have to offer, check out this blog for information on the Queens Botanical Garden.
  8. Norfolk Botanical Garden: Find out what's blossoming and growing at the Norfolk Botanical Garden on this site.
  9. Chicago Botanic Garden: See how the gardens are maintained, get tips and see wonderful photos on this botanical garden site.

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