Congratulations to the 2010 Mouse & Trowel Award Winners!
Posted: May 18th, 2010 | Author: Colleen | Filed under: Uncategorized | 18 Comments »What an awards season: with 548 nomination ballots (our most ever), and a whopping 5,042 individual votes cast, it’s clear that there is plenty of interest in garden blogs! I heard over and over again that there were some really tough choices to be made on that final ballot, and I can’t agree more — every one of the finalists was a stellar example of what you can do with a passion for gardening, good writing, and the talent to pull it all together.
Congratulations to everyone! And the winners are:
2010 Mouse & Trowel Award Winners
Best Blog Design
Winner: Studio G
Runner-Up: Our Little Acre
Best Company Blog
Winner: Horticulture Magazine – Kiss My Aster
Runner-Up: AHA! Modern Living
Best Container Gardening Blog
Winner: Life on the Balcony
Runner-Up: Container Gardening at About.com
Best Blog About Garden Design
Winner: Studio G
Runner-Up: Digging
Best Blog About Growing Food
Winner: Diggin Food
Runner-Up: The Yarden
Best Indoor Gardening Blog
Winner: Plants Are the Strangest People
Runner-Up: Indoor Garden-er
Best Rural Gardening/Farming Blog
Winner: Our Little Acre
Runner-Up: Cold Climate Gardening
Best Urban Garden Blog
Winner: Mr. Brown Thumb
Runner-Up: The Yarden
Best New Garden Blog
Winner: Read Between the Limes
Runner-Up: Serenity in the Garden
Best Photography
Winner: Our Little Acre
Runner-Up: You Grow Girl
Best Writing
Winner: Our Little Acre
Runner-Up: Garden Rant
Favorite Garden Blogger to Follow on Twitter
Winner: Kylee, Our Little Acre
Runner-Up: Mr. Brown Thumb
Post of the Year
Winner: Plants Are the Strangest People, List: Houseplants You’ll Want to Be Growing During the Zombie Apocalypse of 2014
Runner-Up: Our Little Acre, Helen’s Flower
Garden Blog of the Year
Winner: Our Little Acre
Runner-Up: Studio G
Congratulations to all of you!! I’ll have winner badges and prize information available for you in the near future. Let’s do it again next year, shall we?
Congratulations everyone! Well deserved, and I look forward to CONTINUING to read and comment on all of your blogs.
(They were already some of my faves!)
Congrats to all the nominees and winners of the Mouse and Trowel Awards 2010!
You all are winners in my book… Congratulations! Teresa
Oh my goodness… I’m just amazed and speechless. Okay, not speechless exactly, but I don’t know what to say except thank you to those of you who thought enough to vote for Our Little Acre. I am in wonderful, talented company and I’m sure the final results were very close.
Congratulations to everyone who was nominated and to those who won. It’s so exciting to see how the gardening blog world has exploded in the last few years! What a fun thing it is we do!
Thank you also, to the sponsors and especially to Colleen for doing this.
I am thrilled to have met so many of you in person or come to know you through Twitter. You should all be proud for starting the resurgence in gardening with the younger set!!
Congratulations to everyone! We’re thrilled that Horticulture’s Amanda Thomsen won Best Company Blog with her Kiss My Aster. And Kylee, you rock, sister!
Congratulations to everyone! Some well deserved recognition for all of the effort you put in!
Thank you so much! I was honored to be nominated among such wonderful bloggers! Congrats to everyone!!!
What a wonderful who’s who of who to follow and read. Congratulations to all! (and how fun it is to have just met Rochelle at the NE Tweetup!)
congratulations to all the winners, runners up and nominees. I don’t know how anyone can choose just one for each. You are all winners.
Oh, my heavens to Betsy. Congratulations to all the winners and especially to Kylee for the grand sweep. Very impressive.
Congratulations to all winners and all nominees too! You are all great writers, photographers and share”ers” of seminal information! Thank you!
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Hooray everyone—I’m so happy for all of you! great writing and great company, all. see you in Dallas at GWA. And thanks for all the love, concern and support for the flood victims in my beloved city of Nashville.
I know Kylee . . . . trust me, she is NEVER speechless.
But she works hard on her gardening and her blog and all of her friends are excited for her!
Whoo-hoo! Hearty congratulations to all the winners and runners-up! Especially Our Little Acre! I have always LOVED your photos! And I guess you can write, too! ;-p
KissMyAster, MrBrownThumb and everyone else–you guys really brighten up the Internets! Thank you!
And BIG Kudos to Colleen Vanderlinden (did I spell that right?) for her amazing initiative in launching the Mousies in ‘07. Honey, if you could bottle your energy, you’d be a frickin’ millionaire 5 times over! (In addition to being a market organic gardener, blogger, social media maven and garden blogger awards innovator, this woman has, I believe, FOUR children under the age of 6–or is it under the age of 7 now?)! You, my friend, are AMAZING!
Congrats to all! Can’t wait to dive into a few of these that are new-to-me or that I have not visited in quite some time.