The Providential Gardener

Developing the New Providential Gardener Website

It's been more than 2 years since I've posted. Where was I? Busy... elsewhere... One thing leads to another and before you know it, there go two years! I had hoped to migrate the posts from this TypePad blog to... Read more →

Blithewold ~ A Rhode Island Treasure ~ Centennial Celebrations in 2008

Rhode Island is full of great places to explore and fascinating things to do, and I just can't keep up with it all! Much of my time these days is going into growing the comprehensive union Calendar of environment-related events... Read more →

Rhode Island's Eco-Blogging Scene: PostCarbon Rhode Island

This morning I heard from PostCarbon Rhode Island, a new blog that entered the world just three days after 2008, on January 3. It's a great website with info on efforts to deal with energy and natural resource issues locally... Read more →

Sustainable Sakonnet

Happy New Year! I love starting fresh at the beginning of the year, and The Providential Gardener has high hopes for the future of the garden called Rhode Island that we all share and tend. There's a lot of work... Read more →

Announcing a New Sprout ~ What Grows On in Rhode Island Blog

The Providential Gardener's first sprout is a new blog, What Grows On in Rhode Island! So many meeting announcements and press releases are arriving that I think it will be better to give them their own special place. So meeting... Read more →

Local Garden Blogs and Master Gardeners

The Providential Gardener is interested in all things Green (I mean, literally ~ the stuff with roots) in Rhode Island, so it's great to see some other blogs by Rhode Islanders that post about gardening. (see list at end of... Read more →

About Condensed Events from the Providential Gardener

I am developing a comprehensive, integrated quick list by date of everything interesting to The Providential Gardener in or near Rhode Island. I'm including activities of both large and small organizations. I love impossible missions! This project began in late... Read more →

An Experiment in Blogging an Events Calendar

Although it's sometimes too cold to be outside in a Rhode Island winter ~ as today, with a projected high of 11 degrees Farenheit ~ gardeners never stop gardening, resorting to imaginative and future gardening when down-and-dirty gardening is impossible.... Read more →

Happy New Year!

Best wishes to Rhode Island's Growing Community from the Providential Gardener! It takes time to grow a garden, to grow a forest, to restore the shoreline's natural vegetation. And it takes time to grow a weblog. I hope 2007 is... Read more →

Other Gardening Blogs

Some people have been blogging about gardens for more than four years! Sheila Lennon at the Providence Journal has been compiling a list of gardening blogs that's worth checking out. Also note one of our reader's enthusiastic recommendation for Garden... Read more →