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Cool Plants for Cold Climates: A Garden Designer’s Perspective by Brenda C. Adams (Snowy Owl Books/University of Alaska Press, 239 pp., $35) I have found a book geared for those living in a colder climate who have a tendency to let their heart govern their plant purchases! I’m sure you know what I mean because I often suffer from the same affliction: I […]
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Starting & Saving Seeds: Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers for Your Garden by Julie Thompson-Adolf (Cool Springs Press, 2018, 160 pp., $25) Two of the most important and useful gardening skills are knowing how to start your plants from seed and saving seeds. Yet those two skills — especially the latter — are ones that many gardeners […]
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The Wellness Garden: Grow, Eat & Walk Your Way to Better Health by Shawna Coronado (Cool Springs Press, 160 pp., $24.99) Meet Shawna Coronado. Diagnosed with severe spinal degenerative osteoarthritis, her future looked bleak. She suffered from debilitating joint pain and inflammation that affected her everyday life, limiting what she could do. She could have resigned herself to the use […]
Read moreGardening Complete: How to Best Grow Vegetables, Flowers, and Other Outdoor Plants (by Authors of Cool Springs Press, 376 pp., $30) If you are looking for a comprehensive outdoor gardening book on just about every topic you could imagine, then take a look at the newest offering from Cool Springs Press: Gardening Complete. For this monumental project, they pulled together a […]
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Whenever I review a garden book, my goal is to share a good source to learn from. It might be about growing vegetables, propagating plants, landscape design ideas, or cool DIY projects. This time, I’ve found something to help you learn from yourself in the form of the Three Year Gardener’s Gratitude Journal from Chelsie Anderson and Donna Balzer. I […]
Read moreIt can be easy for gardeners to get into a routine of planting the same old vegetable varieties year after year. We all have our favorites, right? Well, just when we vegetable gardeners thought we had it all figured out, here comes Niki Jabbour to take us out of our comfort zone with her latest book, Veggie Garden Remix (Storey […]
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After reading Jessica Walliser’s book, Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, I’ve become a big fan of her work. She does a great job of tackling useful subjects, breaking them down into their most important components, and delivering this information in a very approachable way. So I was excited to hear about her newest book, Container Gardening Complete (Cool Springs […]
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The Foodscape Revolution by Brie Arthur (St. Lynn’s Press, 2017, 189 pp., $21.95) I’m always excited when a book comes along that explains how a homeowner can have both an attractive landscape and a productive food garden at the same time. In Brie Arthur’s new book, The Foodscape Revolution, she does exactly that. Now it’s time to get the word […]
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The Spirit of Stone: 101 Practical & Creative Stonescaping Ideas for Your Garden by Jan Johnsen (2017, St. Lynn’s Press, 191 pp., $21.95) You might think a book that is essentially about rocks would be rather dull. It turns out that isn’t the case at all, as I learned while working my way through The Spirit of Stone. As a […]
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Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects by the Xerces Society (Timber Press, 2016, 287 pp., $24.95) Don’t you just love learning new things? I know I do. I’ve been wanting to find out more about attracting butterflies to our garden and found an ideal guide for that exact purpose. Gardening for Butterflies is a […]
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