What a great book! There is so much fascinating information in here. The book highlights the co-evolution of four different plant with humans and the particular element for which they are selected… apple/sweetness, tulip/desire, cannabis/intoxication, and potato/control. Here is an excerpt from the chapter on the tulip/desire: Once upon a time, there were no flowers […]
I borrowed this book from the library, but I may have to buy a copy. Basically, the drive for fruitless trees in landscaping has led to higher and higher pollen counts in urban and suburban areas. There is no such thing as a trash free tree, it either drops fruit (including nuts and seed pods) […]
Samantha got this book for her birthday several years ago and it is still one of our favorites. The pictures are all of hollyhock dolls. The story was wonderful. It was about a hollyhock doll that was blown away out of her garden and had the help of many friends to get back. At the […]
The kids gave me a book for Mother’s Day called “The Little Big Book of Roses”. It is a collection of recipes, tips, literary excerpts, facts, lore… a little bit of everything. I love it! One of the recipes in it is for candied rose petals. Here it is… Candied Rose Petals Candied rose petals […]
This is another one of my favorite gardening books. My copy has notes written in the margins, thing circled, starred and crossed out. It was misplaced a couple of weeks ago and I almost panicked! This book is so wonderfully specific for the DFW area. It is an incredible resource for different organizations, associations and […]
This is a great bird guide for Texas! The book is broken up in sections on different types of birds such as wading birds, water birds, gull-like birds all the way to perching birds. The pictures are gorgeous! The book also has a great section on attracting birds to your yard and a Texas bird […]
Texas is great for growing roses! You just have to pick the right roses. Thoses delicate and fincky tea roses are better left to the North. I love this book! It was written by Michael Shoup of The Antique Rose Emporium in Brenham, Texas. It appears to be out of print now, but if you […]
There’s a lot of rhyming words in this book. For example: “Calling all oddhoppers! Aphids and bees. Crickets and dung beetles, earwigs and fleas!” I like the ants because of their funny little sayings. I love the snail race. (Thank you Samantha! And thank you Suzie and Elliot for introducing us to this book!)
Luckily I’m allowed more than one, but if I could have only one, then this is the book I would choose. Howard Garret has been gardening organically in Texas since 1985. He has a website, radio show, and many other books (all of which are great!) This book is a combination how-to and wish list […]
“Sunflower House” by Eve Bunting is such a wonderful book! It inspired us to build our own sunflower house. Unfortunately, I can’t find a picture of our sunflower house right now, but it was wonderful. During my daughter’s birthday, we sat inside our sunflower house and read the story. “Miss Lilly and the Hollyhock Garden” […]
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