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Mr Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart
by Carol Wall
Mr. Owita appeared in Carol Wall’s life when she needed to learn about balance. As an empty-nester with aging parents, and having recently overcome a bout with a serious illness, the last project she thought she wanted to begin was fixing up her yard. After hiring this kindly man who also gardened for her neighbors, her life and her yard began transforming into something more beautiful and meaningful than she’d expected. Carol also learned not to assume things about others, and to open her heart and live less in her mind. I’m glad she shared with the reader how she was able to learn, mostly by taking the time to get to know her humble gardener.
Cultivating Garden Style: Inspired Ideas and Practical Advice to Unleash Your Garden Personality
by Rochelle Greayer
Wow! Is this book ever packed with ideas and instructions on how to make your garden space reflect your own style! The author is a professional garden designer, blogger and editor of an online gardening magazine. There are thousands of suggestions organized into themes to suit your style and purpose. Are you an Enchanted Bohemian? A Cultivated Collector? Do you want to create a sanctuary? A kitchen garden? With sections based around one’s lifestyle and preferred depth of devotion to gardening, this book will both inspire and enlighten.
Rocks, Dirt, Worms & Weeds: a fun, user-friendly illustrated guide to creating a vegetable or flower garden with your kids
by Jeff Hutton
Full of ideas for family outdoor projects, such as starting seeds indoors, growing and making pickles, making worm bins and making your own paper. This book is divided by season so there’s enough projects for a whole year. Information in this book is introductory and good for beginners, presented in a simple manner.
Fairy gardening 101: How to Design, Plant, Grow, and Create over 25 Miniature Gardens
by Fiona McDonald
This is a delightful book for adults who have children who might be interested in luring fairies into their environment. The author provides photos of her daughter and herself creating gardens in outside settings, in flowerpots and other miscellaneous items where fairies might want to visit. She includes directions for activities like making twig furniture, mini-fences, champagne wire chairs and even the fairies themselves. Besides being an intriguing indoor
activity, wouldn’t it be fun to have a child discover a fun mini-world in your yard this spring?
Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist: How to Have Your Yard and Eat It Too
by Michael Judd
With an eye to self-sustainability, permaculture (holistic landscape design introduced in the 1970s) is featured in this eye-catching book. While it sounds serious, the author encourages readers to have fun with this, doing this himself by including various adult cocktail drinks in each section. Projects include spiral-shaped raised beds to plant herbs, rain gardens, growing mushrooms and uncommon fruits (like gooseberries).
