The whole author-promoter-carnival huckster mantle sits pretty uncomfortably on my shoulders…but I just had to share this from Annie’s Annuals:
No one book on gardening can cover every topic or address every plant (just try to find some of the plants we grow here in the Sunset Western Garden Guide, right?). Hortus Miscellaneous was not intended to be the Oxford English Dictionary of gardening reference books. Instead it’s accomplished something with more quirk and wit, and it is a far easier book to curl up on the couch with. The information contained within ranges from the useful (lists of plants that are good for the cutting garden, recipes for teas, which weeds are edible, which common garden plants are toxic, etc.) to the arcane and bizarre (ways famous botanists have met their ends, random facts about hedgehogs, a list of songs for gardeners, bonsai terminology) and a good amount in between. What other book can teach you how to candy violets, tell you why Napoleon’s wife chopped up her entire Dahlia collection and give you a recipe for fried green tomatoes, plus all the gardening lore you could ask for? Love it!
And we bet any of your gardening pals will, too!
Ah shucks folks! The best part? Here’s someone who really gets the wonderful “hodgepodge” that is gardening. Many, MANY thanks to the good people of Annie’s Annuals who have read and are now promoting my book.
Now – all the rest of you – get out there and buy a copy!!! Hopefully from Annie’s!!! OK, enough of this. The link love is getting a bit thick.
Hortus Miscellaneous, by Lorene Edwards Forkner & Linda Plato, Sasquatch Books, 2007 For more background on this, my first book, go here.
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of course you have Quirk and Wit!!! I am your witness~
Nice, unsolicited PR. Yeah!!!
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If Annie and the Flower Floozies at Annie’s Annuals like this, then I’d better put it on my Christmas list because when it comes to hot hort, they know hot hort!