You Grow Girl: a perennial delight

I just discovered You Grow Girl and I love it! This fabulous blog is the creation of avid green-thumbed-girl Gayla Trail. The YGG motto is "gardening for the people." Unlike the stuffy and old-fashioned garden-society-type garden sites I'm used to seeing, this site is fresh and cool, hip and funky. It's aimed at a younger and more environmentally-conscious audience. People like myself, perhaps, who want to garden...but don't want gardens like their parents have, with neatly clipped lawns and stiffly symmetrical shrubbery.

For Gayla, gardening is about more than just growing stuff. It's about cherishing the environment. It's also about the art and creativity involved in gardening and the inspiration that a beautiful garden can provide. Gayla's gardening style is also about the basics that well-planned gardens can bestow on us -- like nutritious and delicious foods and all-natural products for health and beauty. She's enthusiastic, too, about all the crafts associated with life in the garden, like sewing aprons and converting old, junky items into eye-catching yard art and cool garden containers.

Ms. Trail even has a book: You Grow Girl: the Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening. You can buy the book through numerous vendors including Amazon. Have a story, photo or project you'd like to share with You Grow Girl? Post it to the ever-expanding forum page.

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