I have been re-reading People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening by Robin Chotzinoff for the Garden Bloggers Book Club. Just like last time, I am amazed by her ability to ferret these eccentric gardeners out, and in awe of her willingness to drive hundreds of miles to talk to total strangers, some of [...]
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Beautiful at All Seasons: Garden Bloggers Book Club
May 31, 2008 – Posted in: Book reviews, MiscellaneousHave you ever been out with a friend, and another person joins you, who is a good friend of your friend, but you don't know them? And the two of them start talking about people you don't know, and even though the conversation is mildly interesting (this one had a baby, that one has a [...]
Second Nature: Garden Bloggers’ Book Club
March 30, 2008 – Posted in: Book reviewsJust as we wonder guiltily whether the food we put in our mouth is good for us, so we now wonder just as guiltily whether what we do in the garden is good for the planet. It was not so much that way back in 1991, when this book was published. In fact, I am [...]
Green Thoughts: Garden Bloggers’ Book Club
November 28, 2007 – Posted in: Book reviewsI had read Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden a few years ago, and thought I might skip reading it for this book club, due to the press of other commitments. But I'm glad I didn't. No sooner did I crack the book open, than I came across this: . . . a writer [...]
My Summer in a Garden
July 29, 2007 – Posted in: MiscellaneousA small change in routine can make a big change in the gardenI was the oldest of a large family, and I aspired to be a good girl. Not so much in the sense of morally superior; I wanted to do it right, correctly. Even as a child, I was a perfectionist. Perfectionists: You know [...]
Passalong, heirloom, and cottage garden plants
June 3, 2007 – Posted in: Flowers on the BrainI suppose there exists, somewhere on this planet, an ornamental gardener who has never grown a plant that they had been given from someone else's garden, but it is hard for me to imagine it. Before I even knew myself to be a gardener, when I was just a kid, I tagged along behind the [...]
Teaming with Microbes: Book Review
January 27, 2007 – Posted in: Book reviewsIt probably would have taken me a lot longer to get around to reading Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web if Carol hadn't suggested it for the Garden Blogger's Book Club. Partly because I would normally wait until my library got a copy, instead of buying it brand new. Partly [...]
Two Essays:Garden Bloggers Book Club
December 29, 2006 – Posted in: Book reviews, Plant infoI was among those who suggested My Favorite Plant as a selection for the Garden Bloggers Book Club, and I am sorry to hear that so many found it not to their liking. I was an English major in college. I loved writing and I loved reading, so I thought it was a perfect fit. [...]
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