I measure profit in more than money itself and a blog is something that will benefit and profit you weeks or months down the line. Who knows if you become a regular blogger and carry it on for the next few years then all that lovely writing, or juice as I like to call it, will be available for readers and future clients for ever.
Is it now time to set up your blog and start sharing your commercial life?
For some, the opportunity has possible passed them by (read on to find out why)
Take this website for Elite Landscapes Ltd. They have been involved in the restoration of the gardens or Cherkley Court, Leatherhead.
Cherkley Court is the former seat of Lord Beaverbrook who lived in this fine late Victorian House with magnificent views over the Mickleham Valley for fifty years.
Surely, this magnificent project was crying out for a blog?
What is even more saddening, Simon Johnson, the garden designer who has been responsible for starting the restoration project ten years ago cannot even be traced using Google. This is a real shame for all those involved and also the interested public who get as much pleasure as seeing progress as they do the finished product.
My view, the neglect is just as much a part of the history of a garden or building as its creation or eventual restoration and this period needs to be chronicled and punctuated.
I digress slightly as I feel the passion within starting to take me off at a tangent to my original destination.
I use the Typepad platform for my articulations and for a limited period Typepad are giving away a copy of the book Flower Confidential written by writer Amy Stewart for all new bloggers who take a 30 day trial.
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We buy more flowers a year than we do Big Macs, spending $6.2 billion annually. We use them to mark our most important events, to express sentiments that might otherwise go unsaid. And we demand perfection. So it’s no surprise that there is a $40 billion global industry devoted to making flowers flawless. Amy Stewart takes us inside the flower trade—from the hybridizers, who create new varieties in the laboratory, to the growers, who produce flowers by the millions (often in a factory-like setting), to the Dutch auctioneers, who set the bar (and the price), and ultimately to the neighbourhood florists orchestrating the mind-boggling demands of Valentine’s and Mother’s Day. There’s the breeder intent on developing the first blue rose; an eccentric horticultural legend who created the world’s most popular lily; a grower of gerberas of every color imaginable; and the equivalent of a Tiffany diamond: the “ Forever Young” rose. Stewart explores the relevance of flowers in our lives and in our history, and in the process she reveals all that has been gained—and lost—by tinkering with nature.
This is your big chance to extend your creative juices way beyond the garden or drawing board and release all those thoughts that you cannot express with a hoe or spade.
Is it time to get blogging.
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Posted by: M Martin | Jul 03, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Garden designer Simon Johnson is based at Manor Farm, Middle Chinnock, Crewkerne, Somerset TA18 7PN Tel. 01935 881706
Posted by: Richard Northcott | Oct 14, 2009 at 12:46 PM