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Gardening Book Reviews

By Nancy Kamp

Fiction - Miscellaneous
Fiction - Mystery
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<map name="boxmap-p8" id="boxmap-p8"> <area shape="rect" coords="14, 200, 103, 207" href="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" /> <area coords="0,0,10000,10000" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/quotaarticmor-20" /> </map> <img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com" />	When I first moved to the southwestern US, I drove across Arkansas to Texas on an interstate highway bordered by miles and miles of wildflowers. Rick Imes' book, Wildflowers, brought it all back - who wouldn't fall in love with a land covered in beauty? Nancy
<map name="boxmap-p8" id="boxmap-p8"> <area shape="rect" coords="14, 200, 103, 207" href="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" /> <area coords="0,0,10000,10000" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/quotaarticmor-20" /> </map> <img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com" />	Don't be deceived by the title of *Natural Gardening in Small Spaces. Author Noël Kingsbury was apparently raised in the wide open spaces of Patagonia or perhaps Manitoba and has a very different concept of the word small. However, Kingsbury has included lots of information that will be helpful to people in diverse zones who want to create habitat beautiful gardens. The book is worth a look. Nancy*
series	Prolific garden and gardening author Laura C. Martin caught my eye with her book on Southern Gardens. I love visiting public gardens and this book highlights some regional treasures. I'm glad to have discovered the series. You will be, too. Nancy
	In my slow but steady plan to visit all the major gardens I possibly can, I rely on books like Diane Kostial McGuire's Gardens of America. McGuire's nicely-illustrated work gives a history of American gardening that brings an interesting element to my passion for gardens. Nancy
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	Given the unusual weather conditions in the last years, it makes sense to concentrate on local plant varieties that might have the best chance to survive. Enter Patricia A. Taylor's *Easy Care Native Plants. Taylor has taken a complicated and wide-ranging list of possibilities (sorry about the territorial pun) and given us lots of plant choices we can feel comfortable with. Finally. Nancy*
<map name="boxmap-p8" id="boxmap-p8"> <area shape="rect" coords="14, 200, 103, 207" href="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" /> <area coords="0,0,10000,10000" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/quotaarticmor-20" /> </map> <img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com" />	Spiral bound, *The Garden Planner,* by John N. Walker and Graham Strong is made up of stacks of four cards per page. The front of each card is a beautiful color photograph of an individual species of flower. The back explains the care and feeding of each plant. By flipping through, you can try different combinations in planning your beds and borders. I think it's gardening fun - even when the weather won't let me work outside. *Jane Marie*

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