So right from the beginning, I was excited about the entire process. I began thinking about what I wanted to curate, and what I was interested in and I thought about curating how to start and manage your own garden, but quickly realized that there was probably a ton on the web already about that. Still interested in that topic, I decided too re-evaluate it and changed it to people who maintain interesting and unique gardens.
One of the biggest problems I have been faced with so far is realizing that I am probably not going to find specific people for this project, as I thought. Going into it, I thought the focus would be on the people, rather than the actual gardens, but now I realize that it will be on the gardens. I'm actually really happy with that, because I think I, along with others, would like to focus on the actual gardens and what makes them so interesting, and less on the person.
I have found many, many pictures of awesome gardens, but the person is not "famous" per-say, in the horticulture community. What I thought I would find in my research would be renowned people who were very well known for having very well-kept and unique gardens.
I am using multiple websites to aid my research. Pinterest is specifically helpfully and has many pictures and resources. I have decided to use Tumblr as my website for the curation.
The next three steps I need to for the project would be to establish my tumblr account/wesbite, organize the information and pictures I currently have, and expand my searches to more than just pictures- I need to go further than that.
I think one idea that can be made to help make the project run more smoothly would be to not have the entire curation website due in one day, instead have "check points". Making the website due in parts makes it seem much less overwhelming overall. That way, we would organize all of our research probably at better times.
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