There have been moments in my gardening journey where I have attempted to record what happens in my garden but these are usually short, spontaneous bursts of enthusiasm. I usually buy myself an exercise book, fervently fill in the first couple of pages and then store it on a bookshelf somewhere never to be opened again.

A garden journal for me is a novelty but I'm not organised enough to continually keep one. However, I have been thinking of late that maybe I should be recording what I do and keeping it in a gardening journal. I certainly don't think that it would be worth anything by keeping one for posterity's sake but for my own gardening journey, my failures and successes, I can see that it would have immense value as a garden reference.

I wonder how others journal their gardening triumphs and day-to-day plantings, musings and apparent failings. Is the blog now the new online garden journal? Will gardeners use this form of media more to journal their garden evolution? And if they did, how much information would readers want to see?

I've often thought, "wouldn't it be great to sit down and read Edna Walling's garden journal? (Edna Walling is an awesome Australian gardener who is a bit of a local gardening icon). If she hadn't journaled her gardening journey we would have needed to guess and surmise what she did but never actually known. We're fortunate enough to have records of what she planted and how she landscaped her signature gardens.

If you could study a prominent gardener's journal, who would it be?