Book Review: The Private Life of Plants
Karen Do you believe that plants can see, count, communicate, react to touch, and estimate time? David Attenborough’s book, The Private Life of Plants will make you into a believer. According…
Book Review: Seedheads in the Garden
Few people are not touched by the color and textures of the spring and summer garden but how many see beauty in the brown remains when the good weather has…
Book Review: Let it Rot! The Gardener’s Guide to Composting
Composting is an ancient activity yet here in the 21st century we are still trying to convince people to do it. More and more gardeners are getting into it but…
Book Review: The Secrets of Wildflowers: A Delightful Feast of Little-Known Facts, Folklore, and History
If you love plants for their own sake, this is the book for you! You don’t have to be a gardener or a naturalist to enjoy all the fascinating information…
Book Review: Garden Primer
Barbara Damrosch’s Garden Primer is a comprehensive guide to gardening that give you the basics as well as information on specific plants. Damrosch points out in her introduction that the…
Book Review: Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening
Louise Riotte’s book has been around for a long time and is considered by some to be a classic in the field of companion gardening. With the rising popularity of…
Book Review: Small Space Container Gardens
Just because you live in an apartment or condo with no yard doesn’t mean you don’t get the gradening bug, right? Many people that live in “space-challenged” environments enjoy the…
Book Review: Designing with Succulents
Succulents are the plants that my grandmother grew in pots on the stairs in the front of her house. She hardly ever watered them and or paid much attention to…
Book Review: Attracting Butterflies and Hummingbirds to Your Backyard
One of the great pleasures of having a garden is watching the butterflies and birds that come to live there. Their beauty alone makes them desirable guests but added to…
Book Review: Vertical Gardening: Grow Up, not Out, for More Vegetables and Flowers in Much Less Space
Space can be a very limiting factor in designing a garden and being able to grow all the plants you want to grow. Growing plants on trellises, arbors, columns and…