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RE: magazine readership

Here's a thought...maybe they should have magazines entitled "Beginning Gardening," "Intermediate Gardening," "Advanced..." etc. so that advanced gardeners don't accidentally get into "beginning" and become bored, and beginners don't stumble into "advanced" and become overwhelmed. They may have to color code them like ski trail signs, since color and icon seem to be more communicative to young readers than text. Margaret Lauterbach, feeling curmudgeonly

I, personally, have tried to write more home decorating pieces in the last two years, because that seems to be where the market has gone. And I have to agree that many of the gardening magazines seem very repetitive ("best bulbs for spring!" "autumn shrubs for color!") and remind me of bride magazines that run the same stories each year because they presume they have an audience that keeps leaving. I prefer newspaper writing, which seems more newsy, and--I hope I'm not insulting anyone--have become bored with most magazines (with a few exceptions like Fine Gardening and American Gardener and some of the British magazines). I'm still bemoaning the loss of the British magazine New Eden.
Nancy Stedman

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