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Re: Location of garden articles in newspapers

My rather parochial view of the situation from Southern California re garden 
pages in newspapers:

Very few here have what could be called a garden page. Many have a page 
devoted to "Home and Garden" with perhaps a column by a local gardener, and 
filled up mostly with articles off the wire from syndicated writers who live 
in the east, midwest, or anywhere but SoCal. While their writing is good and 
practical elsewhere, it falls far short of being useful here. Planting 
pansies and calendulas in the spring is six months off the mark. The local 
writers are usually good, but limited in what they know of varieties, soil, 
etc. The Master Gardeners are often very good--the one in my hometown is 
excellent, but generally freelancers resent them since they work for free, 
and having been bumped off at least three papers because I wouldn't sign an 
all-rights, forever, and anywhere contract, I feel a little peevish about 
them.too.

The problem is that newspaper management, off-site corporate owners, guys 
with green eyeshades and clipboards who are concerned with only the bottom 
line are seldom gardeners, have little use for what they think is a community 
service rather than a desirable feature, and simply tolerate rather than 
promote a garden page.

But there are gardeners out there, even if they're only lawn gardeners, and 
it's a pity that newspapers, and horticultural magazines,to a great extent, 
can't manage to present useful and regional information for their readers. I 
usually shut down my computer around four pm, wash my face and go for a walk 
in the neighborhood, and I do see some gardens with flowering annuals, and 
sometimes I can peek, unabashed, into back yards and see a vegetable garden, 
and it always makes my day.

Gerald Burke
Flower Power columnist

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