I'm on Twitter's Garden Chat & a Giveaway

Every Monday night from 8-9pm cst gardeners from everywhere log on to Twitter and blab like crazy about, well, uh, gardening. Each week there's a different host and topic, but folks often careen away then back again into that topic. It gets a bit nuts. Monday night I'm hosting Garden Chat after hours, from 9-10pm cst--I'll be guesting and the topic will be fall gardening--move it or lose it. My advice, ideas, demands, pleas, and complaints, for what they're worth.

*** I'll be giving away two copies of my garden memoir,  

Sleep, Creep, Leap: The First Three Years of a Nebraska Garden 

(link for excerpt & to buy). To enter, just leave a comment on this post 

about what cheezed you, what you learned, or ask a question related 

to the Twitter discussion. I'll randomly choose two winners--

or, choose two winners who brown nose the most. Haven't decided. ***

If you want TWO CHANCES TO WIN, go to the Q&A at Garden Rant, read why 
I decided to self publish etc, and comment there to enter.  

Amazon -- Kindle

Peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburned back. Spending $1,000 at five nurseries in an afternoon. Raising 200 monarch butterflies. Hearing the wing beats of geese thirty feet overhead at sunset. How one piece of mulch can make all the difference. These are the stories of Benjamin Vogt’s 1,500 foot native prairie garden over the course of three years. After a small patio garden at his last home teases him into avid tinkering, the blank canvas of his new marriage and quarter acre lot prove to be a rich place full of delight, anguish, and rapture in all four seasons. 

Full of lyrical, humorous, and botanical short essays, Sleep, Creep, Leap will leave you inspired to sit a while with your plants, noticing how the smallest events become the largest—and how the garden brings us down to earth so that we can come home to our lives.

Thanks to Brenda, the creator and lord of Garden Chat, for asking me to host this double header! Visit Garden Chat now! Or just log on to twitter and type in the hashtag #gardenchat (but don't forget that for each tweet you'll need to include that hashtag!).

Below are some fall color pics from last year. 

If you want to see my garden from day one in 2007 

I suggest becoming a fan of The Deep Middle on Facebook 

and visiting the year by year photo galleries, 

or you can also link here.

White Boltonia, NE Aster, Wood's Aster

Gold Smokebush, Coppertina Ninebark, Fineline Buckthorn

Bald Cypress

Indiangrass

Saliva azurea 'Nekan'

Lots of structure here for wildlife and winter interest.