I am so excited about adding my two cents’ in this week about Michael A. Dirr’s Dirr’s Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs! The book’s publisher, Timber Press, has been hosting a giveaway on their site, and one lucky tree-and-shrub loving reader will win a copy of the Encyclopedia this Friday, December 2–and to celebrate the [...]
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Attention, tree lovers! I’m happy to announce a giveaway happening over at Timber Press: a copy of Michael A. Dirr’s Dirr’s Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs! I’ll be reviewing my copy of Dirr’s this coming Wednesday, but if you pop on over to the Timber Press site and comment on their post here, you will [...]
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A few months ago, my friend Sherry was telling me that she’d seen one of her favorite authors on one of our favorite shows, Central Texas Gardener. Although Susan Wittig Albert is a resident of our own nearby Hill Country just outside of Austin, I’d never met her and hadn’t yet read any of her best-selling [...]
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So my friend Ivette Soler wrote a book. And not just any book, no ma’am. Ivette is anything but pedestrian; no run-of-the-mill kind of garden book for her. Nope, she wrote a book called The Edible Front Yard (Timber Press)*– she proposes ripping out your useless grass and growing all manner of veggies, fruits and [...]
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I can’t think of a better 200th post for J. Peterson Garden Design than a review of a cool little book like “Garden Rules: The Snappy Synopsis for the Modern Gardener” (Cool Springs Press) by Jayme Jenkins and Billie Brownell! There aren’t too many garden books specifically geared toward the beginner gardener that are full [...]
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Texas Gardener’s Resource: All You Need To Know To Plan, Plant & Maintain a Texas Garden By Dale Groom and Dan Gill (with Steve Dobbs, James Fizzell, Joe Lamp’l and Joe White), Cool Springs Press, Brentwood, TN. Nice book! I was sent this great resource by Cool Springs Press to review a couple of months [...]
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Beautiful Tabletop Gardens By Janice Eaton Kelly, Sterling Pub., New York, NY For anyone who enjoys container planting, this book could be one of your favorites–I know it’s one of mine. It’s that cool. I container garden for about 40% of my clients and for myself, and yet I own precious few container planting books. [...]
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Mexicolor: The Spirit of Mexican Design By Melba Lewick, Tony Cohan and Masako Takahashi, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA. Gorgeous book! If you’re drawn to the saturated color palette of Mexico and want your house and garden to reflect it, here’s your guide. I reach for it again and again when I need inspiration, for [...]
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Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region, 2nd edition. By Sally Wasowski & Andy Wasowski, Lone Star Books My first pick has to be a classic. This book is the best friend of every gardener, both hobbiest and pro. It really has everything I want in a great landscape/plant book — extensive individual plant information, [...]
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