I'm pleased to bring you a bit of gardening wisdom from 1935, from the book Four Hedges: A Gardener's Chronicle by Clare Leighton. The picture I've chosen to go with this wisdom is just a random, …
A Memory of Violets
My list of books featuring pansies, violets, or violas as part of the story now stands at... Two books. This past week I finished reading and listening to A Memory of Violets: A Novel of …
From the North Pole!
I shall presume you have some knowledge of The Halloween Hare, how he tells secrets about gardeners to the Christmas Cottontail so when the Christmas Cottontail visits with Santa Claus on Christmas …
Listening While Gardening
The old joke—and I mean old—is to be careful what you say in a garden because the corn has ears. But who cares what the corn hears? There's not a kernel of truth in what they might repeat! …
Books with Pansies, Violets, or Violas…
Welcome to my new rabbit hole. By the cover of the book pictured, have you guessed my new rabbit hole? I suspect you haven't, especially if you've never read that book or you focus on that rose. …
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Gardening Books from 1962 – Watch Out For Rabbit Holes
Would you like to follow along to see how one simple search could send me down yet another rabbit hole? It all started early yesterday morning when I read a blog post from Stuck in a Book about …
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