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Favorite garden books?

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I have a stack of gardening books that I keep handy in my living room.

I delve into the books for information to put into this blog or whenever I’m looking up a new plant and want to learn all about it before purchasing it, or in most cases after I’ve purchased it. Yes I’m an impulse plant purchaser.

I was wondering what kinds of gardening books my readers have at home? Here’s a list of what I have on hand:

  • Botanica’s Pocket – Annuals & Perennials
  • Ortho’s All about Azaleas, Camellias & Rhododendrons
  • 500 Popular Roses
  • 100 Easy to Grow native Plants for Canadian Gardens
  • The complete book of Garden Flowers
  • Readers Digest Illustrated Guide to Gardening in Canada
  • Complete Guide to Gardening (Better Homes and Gardens)
  • Botanica – The illustrated A-Z of over 10,000 plants

I think I’ve got a good start to my collection. What do you have that I should be sure to get for myself?






Procrasting again!

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ChionodoxaRemember my post last week? I think it was last Monday? When I said I had purchased a number of spring bulbs and that I was going to plant them that day or the next?

Well I haven’t planted them yet.

I do have a semi-valid excuse though. I haven’t been feeling very well, and it’s been very cold here in the last week. The cool weather is probably all the more reason why I should get those bulbs in the ground as soon as possible as I have a feeling this is going to be a cold winter here, but I haven’t done it yet.

Tomorrow I have an early doctors appointment, so, if the weather is co-operating perhaps I can get off to an early start and get those bulbs planted in the ground. I’m storing them in my enclosed front porch at the moment. It’s cool in there but the temps haven’t dropped below freezing in that room so I’m pretty sure the bulbs will be ok.

I’ll take some photos of the packages and list the types of bulbs when I’ve planted them.

I promise!

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Our Garden’s Evolution

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I joined Gardenweb in the Winter of 2001 as I was planning our garden. The following is an excerpt from my gardenweb member page:

2001

“I’ve recently purchased a house and I’m looking forward to starting my garden next year. I plan to landscape the backyard so that it will have several areas of floral plants, a vegetable garden, and a pond surrounded by a rock garden.

I’m not new to gardening- but new to creating my own garden. When I was a child my parents always had a nice vegetable garden, flowering trees, and flower beds that needed tending. We also had two very large vegetable gardens at our cottage …. so yes I have quite a bit of past experience weeding and growing vegetables in particular. ”

Well, the garden that I was dreamily planning was started in the spring of 2001 and has grown from there. Read the next post for another excerpt from my gardenweb members page regarding the progress of our garden.

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