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May Dreams Gardens: An OLOGBA for the Society: Dear Esteemed and Potential Members of the Society for the Preservation and Propagation of Old-Time Gardening Wisdom, Lore, and Superstition...
Dear Esteemed and Potential Members of the
Society
for the Preservation and Propagation of Old-Time Gardening Wisdom, Lore, and
Superstition (SPPOTGWLS or “the Society”),
I, your self-appointed
society president, have taken it upon myself to compile a list of all acronyms
currently or formerly in use in the garden blogging world (GBW) to aid all new,
current, former and future garden bloggers and readers of garden blogs in the
understanding of same as they apply to garden blogs.
Without further ado
and discussion the following are presented for the membership to consider. There
will not be a quiz.
AGB –
Austin Garden Bloggers. Far and
away the largest congregation of garden bloggers is within and around the city
of Austin, Texas, so they shall be referred to as AGB’s
BIRDS -
Bird
Information and Reference Deficiency Syndrome. The general condition of not
knowing very much about the birds that visit your garden.
BTS -
Black
Thumb Syndrome. According to Kate from Gardening Without Skills, there are
some people whot are afflicated with this. No matter how hard they try not to,
they kill green things. They've been trying to get the AMA to recognize it as
real for years so they can go through their health insurance for therapy. It's
quite sad really.
CCG –
Cold Climate Gardening. One of
the pioneers of garden blogging, Kathy Purdy named her blog Cold Climate
Gardening because she gardens in a cold climate, USDA Hardiness Zone 4. She has
already reported frost this year.
CGB –
Chicago
Garden Bloggers. Though not as numerous as AGB’s, the CGB’s have graciously
volunteered to host the next GBSF the weekend of May 29 – 31, 2009 in the windy
city,
Chicago,
Illinois. Please, oh please does the event include a visit to the
CBG?
DIPT -
Did I
Plant This. First coined by Beckie from Dragon Fly Corner, this is nother
syndrome some gardeners seem to suffer from which causes them to forget what
they planted, and thus they are often happily surprised when a pretty flower
shows up in their garden that they didn't remember planting.
EGG -
Egregious Garden Gloating. Identifed by Eliz. from
Gardening While Intoxicated, this is
when one gardener gloats in the presence of other gardeners about his or her
better weather, plants, flowers, climate, soil, etc. An EGG violation is scored
from one to ten, with ten being reserved for the
most egregious
violations. This is very similar to EGT, Egregious Garden Taunting.
GAD$
- Garden
Attention Distraction Syndrome, Shopping Version. An affliction that causes
gardeners to buy plants and other garden supplies at random, often resulting in
spending more money than was originally planned to be spent.
GADS – Garden
Attention Distraction Syndrome. An affliction that most, if not all,
gardeners suffer from, the primary symptom being the inability to focus on one
garden task until it is done. Instead the gardener moves from task to task, as
they are distracted by one plant and then another, like bumblebees flitting from
flower to flower.GBBC –
Garden Bloggers Book
Club. This is a now-defunct book club formed to promote garden bloggers
reading and posting about a garden book selection every two months.
GBBD
–
Garden
Bloggers’ Bloom Day. GBBD occurs on the 15th of every month when garden
bloggers post pictures and lists on their garden blogs of what is blooming in
their gardens on that day and then leave a comment on the GBBD host blog, MDG,
so we can find them and pay a virtual visit to see what they have in
bloom.
GBSF –
Garden
Bloggers’ Spring Fling. A meet-up of garden bloggers from near and far that
occurs in the spring. The first GBSF was hosted by several AGB’s in Austin,
Texas in April 2009. A grand time was had by all. The second annual GBSF will be
in Chicago the weekend of May 29 – 31, 2009.
GR -
Garden Rant. One of the few garden blogs
with an actual manifesto, they are 'uprooting the gardening world' one post at a
time.
GRTH -
Gardener's
Reduced Time with Horticulture. One of the side affects of not spending
enough time gardening is an overall increased in the gardener's own
girth.
GVAD –
Garden Visit
Anxiety Disorder. First coined by Dee of
Red Dirt Ramblings, GVAD is what a
gardener suffers from when they are preparing their garden for a visit from a
SOGI
GWI -
Gardening While
Intoxicated. The place to find out about gardening in Buffalo, NY, where EAL
swears there is not snow on the ground nine months out of the year. If there was
snow on the ground all the time, that would be a good reason to garden while
intoxicated.
HHSBP -
Horticultural
Hypochondriac Syndrome by Proxy. Mr. McGregor's Daughter suffers from this,
the constant worry that something is wrong with your plants.
IGT - Iced
green tea. This is the beverage of choice for discriminating garden bloggers!
Starbucks brand is preferred.
LAPCPADPOUB -
Lets
all post cat photos and dire poetry on our blogs. A one time event created
by Happy Mouffetard of The Inelegant Gardener.
MCOK -
My Corner of Katy. A very
interesting cottage style garden in Houston, Texas, this also refers to the
Cindy, the gardener there.
MDG –
May Dreams Gardens. That’s
my garden, also used to denote my blog of the same name.
MSS –
M Sinclair Stevens. Also
one of the pioneers of gardening blogging, this blogger’s blog is
Zanthan Gardens, and she is
one of the AGB’s.
MSSGB - Moist Society of Southern Garden Bloggers.
According to
Compost in my
Shoe, humidity breeds more than a slight aroma. I guess that means these
gardeners need to stick together.
OGS -
Obsessed
Gardener Syndrome. Closely related to HHSBP, the primary symptom appears to
be constant worry about your garden.
OLOGBA - Official List of Garden
Bloggers Acronyms. That's this list that you are reading right
now.
PLANTS –
Pleasing,
listed, achievable, nature-friendly, time bound, specific. A way to ‘plant’
goals for your garden.
RDR -
Red
Dirt Ramblings. The wonderful musings about gardening by Dee, who gardens in
Oklahoma.
SGAFO -
Society
of Gardeners Age Fifty and Over. Enough said.
SLOP –
Straight
Line Obsessive Planting. This is a disorder that some gardeners, especially
those who grew up planting vegetables, suffer from which causes them to
instinctively plant nearly everything in a straight line. This creates a
disaster when the SLOP affected gardener attempts to plant tulips bulbs. At
least one
garden blogger
refers to this as Always Neat And Lined-Up.
SOGI –
Someone of Garden Importance. Dee
of Red Dirt Ramblings suffers from GVAD when a SOGI is coming to visit. We all
do!
SPPOTGWLS –
Society
for the Preservation and Propagation of Old-Time Gardening Wisdom, Lore, and
Superstition. A society for all garden bloggers, the only requirement for
membership is to occasionally leave a comment to indicate “present”.
WOO
–
Window of
Opportunity. A gardening WOO is the perfect amount of time for a gardener to
actually work in their garden without interruption and feel like they got
something done.
WUT –
World’s
Ugliest Tomato. And yes, I did grow the world’s ugliest tomato this year!
Some bloggers may have attempted to compete, but in the end the WUT in my garden
prevailed as the one and only WUT.
If any members know of any acronyms
that have been inadvertently left off this list, please raise your hand and
reply with comment so the missing acryonym can be added to this list, which will
hereby be known as the OLOGBA (Official List Of Garden Bloggers
Acronyms).
Submitted by,
Your Self-Appointed Society
President,
Carol, MDG
