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Wow Gardens Blog is an informational site with regular updates an a wide range of gardening topics. If you’ve ever tended a garden then you are probably aware of just how fulfilling and satisfying it is to grow and maintain your own flowers, fruit or vegetables.

The author anonymous author provides tips and suggestions for seasonal gardening and includes an easily to navigate variety of categories including tips, products, seasonal gardening, seeds, flowers, vegetables, perennials and is referenced throughout by acknowledging sources. This is a good thing, in that citing your sources is generally good writing practice however every single article starts with the unchanging phrase “In a recent article…” which may be a comforting routine, but seems a little dry after a while and the links to sources are not clickable.

The Wow Gardens Blog seems like an excellent new resource for American gardeners and collates news articles in a straightforward summary meaning keen gardeners can simply log in to the blog for a good round up of recent news. There is little color either in the language or the design of the site which is a shame considering the topic.

The site design is actually quite nice in its simplicity, like a minimalist Japanese garden but did not awe me for a few reasons. Firstly, there are posts but nothing else. No profile, no links, faq or linkback to the parent site which actually has a little more color. Secondly, the CSS was completely broken in my Safari browser and works only in Internet Explorer (I’m no expert but spaces in URLs, particularly the CSS URL is not good code practice). Being a gardening site I would like to have also seen at least a little color or imagery instead of the safe but dull black-on-white text.

This blog is a good news source for American gardeners and has the potential to be a better resource for readers but could do with a touch up to the template design. Updates are regular an informative but lack the inspiration a gardener finds in their garden. NULL