This week Gardening 4 Dummies is posing the question "Do I consider myself to be a green gardener?" This comes on the back of a couple of recent posts; this one published on this blog, and another recent post at Garden Rant.

I guess we all have a bias, as gardeners, to be as green as possible because that's just what gardeners do. But if it came to the crunch would we put results ahead of organic gardening?

Just to recap last week's question "Where do you source most of your plants?" the results are in. Caren White (aka Old Roses) pointed out that I had missed "Catalogues" as a feasible source and had therefore tainted the results. So for those who wanted to vote for this and missed my post comment, I am truly sorry.

For the rest of us, it seems that small nurseries (67%) were far more popular than large gardening stores (33%) while grocery stores, friends/family, and propagating plants yourself weren't even listed as the main source for getting our plants.

It's interesting that small nurseries were far more popular than the large gardening stores and there are many reasons for this. If I were to hazard a guess (and it's purely my own theories - correct me if you think I'm wrong) I would say that most gardeners prefer the intimacy, personal service and better plant selection of small nurseries. Large gardening stores have a way of making a gardener feel like they're buying straight of the production line and the plants you take home are probably what your neighbour is taking home as well.