User talk:Raffi

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Using Content

Hi Raffi,

I'm the editor of Washington Home & Garden magazine and website. I was hoping to begin a relationship with you and Plants.am and post content from your site for our readers. Ours is a local magazine and very small operation. The website is only a few months old.

It's my hope that in posting content from this site, it will encourage members of the garden community to add articles on your website and recognize our site as a source for solid gardening info and leads to other resources. I would like to include a link to Plants.am on the "sites we like" section I will be creating.

Please get in touch with me. nikki[at]whgmag[dot]com.

Many thanks in advance, Nikki Smith Editor, Washington Home & Garden

http://www.whgmag.com/ http://www.whgmag.com/151-nikki/

Independent Master Gardener

Raffi

Please phone, I'd like to invite you to speak at a club meeting. You stopped by our booth at the last Green Scenes at Fullerton Arboretum.

Bob Shaw President, Orange County Independent Master Gardeners 714-527-1619

Orange County Independent Master Gardeners (again!)

Raffi

I misplaced your phone number, could you please contact me again?

paradigmengineering@dslextreme.com 714-527-1619

Bob Shaw

Main Page, Book of the Month

Hi Raffi,

You've seen some of my postings, I hope I'm not being too conversational for what you want. I write a lot and I'm willing to contribute material to Gardenology, primarily in California natives, edible plants, organic pest control - I notice many articles are more formal than I've written, but I've also noted a lot of articles are steeped in botanical data but not much on the growing side which I took to be the stated aim of Gardenology. At any rate, though I have taught botany, I am first and foremost a gardener and I pull on my practical gardening experience rather than something written in a book.

I have also done book reviews in the past and I would be willing to write a 'Book of the Month' column if that would be of any assistance. I have a lot of reviews on horticulture books already written and could forward a sample to you if that would help.

In addition, in January, I will be teaching a plant propagation class for UCLA Extension. I am considering making including a requirement that my credit students submit propagation for one plant as part of their work. That should result in getting a number of propagation notes written for Gardenology and givfe the students a reason to write a paper!

Hope all this helps. I read you were by some booth in Orange County which means you are West Coast friendly. If you come to Los Angeles, I am the Gardenmaster for The Learning Garden at Venice High School. Consider yourself invited for a tour anytime you're in our neighborhood.

david