At first I thought the rose was a Peone. I saw the lush multi petaled heads and thought. “ohh I don’t have a peone yet.”
Then I read it is a rose. Dumb me.
Now I am all excited for the winter to end so I can see nice blooms again!
I am also excited to learn your garden alfalfa tea recipe so I can start one early this spring.

I understood your note in comments.
I know that my own reason for not being able to comment right away is that I try once, then if I am too early when I look for the posts, it may take me all week to get back and look at the other blogs with GrT Sunday on them.
If I am having a rough week making time I will go through my old green thumb sundays and click all the linkies to hit 15 or so blogs.
I often get stale ones, and I am not too swift to create a ‘current’ list.
Don’t get too worked up about the notes from folks. I know you put alot of work into this, and I understand your history with memes, but not everyone else has been there since the first week.

I do know that it was easier to visit other blogs in the earlier days because the list was smaller.
Perhaps pulling out the stale blogs on the list (Some haven’t had posts since January) might make the cycling through the blogs easier.

It had been nice to be in the community but I hafta admit I didn’t participate that much.But please don’t give up yet on all of us especially I knew some people had been putting lotsa effort to go visit the other members and post something every other Sunday.

But I think since the meme is on Sunday I found it quite easy for me to miss it (b’cause it’s during the weeknds I got the chance to catch up with my family, friends and the lists could goes on) tho it’s not my intention to do so.

If you don’t mind could we at least just put a Green Thumb meme…and that means we could do a post for the Green Thumb at any given day of the week which I know I will be better off.

That’s my suggestions anyway…I try to participate more in the coming weeks anyhow. Because I do love to see all those beautiful things people grow in their garden.

I hope that the community for GTS will get to where you want it to be and I hope that you won’t give up on us.
Blessings,
~*~

When I started this blogroll and meme, everyone was so into it. Every member went around visiting peoples sites and left comments as they went. For some reason that really dropped off in November or so and each month it’s gotten worse and worse. Perhaps people are visiting sites, but if they don’t at least occasionally leave comments how can we tell?

I don’t mind if it takes people all week to visit a number of the sites on the blogroll. That’s fine. It’s just from all appearances visits have barely been happening at all.

I went around to all of the sites in January, and then in February and for those that hadn’t been posting I asked if they still wanted to be part of Green Thumb Sunday. I didn’t get any replies. I visited sites in March and tried to encourage people to visit one another. I didn’t get much feedback. Then I went around last weekend and tried to encourage people to visit one another and I got a bit more feedback that time, and I was just trying to do it this weekend too.

I honestly didn’t expect a whole lot of participation this weekend with it being Easter Weekend. I just wanted to remind people that when they joined Green Thumb Sunday that it wasn’t just about posting it was about visiting other peoples sites too.

It’s just that Green Thumb Sunday was such a hit in the beginning. It was so good. All I was trying to do was to get it back to what it was because it actually hurts me to see that’s it’s changed so much from what it had been.

Now I’m in tears at some of the emails I’ve gotten and well that certain doesn’t make me feel like continuing.

Yes if you read the Green Thumb Sign up page you’ll see that I mention visiting other sites as being part of what this meme is about. You know just like Wordless Wednesday and Photo Hunters - these types of memes work better if you actually visit the other sites that are participating.

I’m sorry but I the response that I’ve gotten from trying to get this meme back to what it was just a few short months ago seems to have backfired.

All I ever did was create this meme to try to give something back to gardening blogs, help them pull together as a community.

It’s just not feeling like much of a community to me right now.

What a lovely rose you have posted. I just planted my very first rose in our young, just two year old garden a couple of days ago and I can’t wait to see it’s blooming this summer. Well, at least I hope it will bloom!

Tricia, to be honest, I am quite shocked about your reaction that people to not comment on other GTS blogs in the way YOU expect them to do. I really enjoy this GTS meme but I have to admit, too, that so far, I did not comment on other participants blogs on a regular basis, due to time constraints. But not commenting does not at all mean NOT visiting!!!

It’s always been a great pleasure for me to write another GTS post (like this on which I got an overwhelming feedback: http://ein-stueck-garten.blogspot.com/2007/03/welcome-to-my-herb-garden-willkommen-im.html).

Please don’t be so harsh on us, like Syliva/Salix wrote. I’ll try to visit other participants more often - but PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL THE WHOLE THING!

To conclude, I must admit as well that I did not know that commenting on other participants blogs is such an essential point of your GST (the most essential???). Shouldn’t it be more the joy of sharing garden photos with other nature lovers and enjoying beautiful flowers on other people’s blogs?

I always appreciate each and every single comment on my blog - and even if I get just one single comment on any of my post, it would have been worse writing it - just for this one reader. ;-)))

I wonder how you will decide - please let us know.

Warmest wishes,
Anita

I’ve killed some lovely roses over the years. Now that I finally have my white picket fence (actually, white picket rail on my lanai, lol!) I need to look around for some hybrids bred for the tropics. Wish me luck. Most of the ones I find in the nurseries here were never intended to grow in Hawaii.