I'm not sure I can retrace my steps through old gardening books to determine how I arrived at Johnson's Gardeners' Dictionary, but as soon as I read about it in the introduction of another book, I …
Guest Post: Garden Fairies Worry About Seeds
Why we grow vegetables - for the food. Garden fairies here! Finally, we get a chance to post something. When was the last time we posted? Goodness, we don't know when we last posted something …
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Book Review: Writing the Garden
I have yet to find the secret code, the nugget of information, the key that will unlock the story of the life of Alice T. A. Quackenbush, whose gardening books I've been reading these last few days. …
Garden Pickers – The next great gardening show?
Is anyone else watching episodes of American Pickers on The History Channel? For those without cable or who haven’t tuned in, American Pickers features two guys, Mike and Frank, who travel around and …
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The Mysterious Alice T. A. Quackenbush
Wanted: Information on the garden writer Alice T. A. Quackenbush. There seems to be very little information on her in the public domain. The info I do have from my own searches and …
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Pansies: Gift from the Garden Fairies
According to Alice T. A. Quackenbush, the pansies are a gift to us from the garden fairies. I did wonder about that and suspected that there might be a connection between them. I would guess they are …
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