Come walk with me down Ridgewood Avenue. Enter in the shade and exit in the sun by the Vegetable Garden Cathedral. Walk slowly now. On the left is August Dreams Garden which will be in peak bloom …
MDG Home and Tea Room for Antiquarian Gardening Books
Two violets talking in the garden. Management here at the May Dreams Gardens Home and Tea Room for Antiquarian Garden Books (MDGHTRAGB) has decreed that no more old gardening books will be admitted …
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Chapter XVII – Funding the Garden
I recently purchased a copy of Garden Works by William Good F.R.H.S. (Blackie and Son Limited, 1913) after Dee of Red Dirt Ramblings taunted me with a picture of the cover. I had no idea what it was …
Gardening Terms Defined
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 …
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. …
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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