{"id":2072,"date":"2006-02-27T22:21:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T03:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2017-07-18T00:07:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T05:07:40","slug":"garden-book-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-book-reviews\/garden-book-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Book Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI&#8217;ll take up the challenge thrown down by Kathy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldclimategardening.com\/2006\/02\/25\/garden-book-meme\/\">Cold Climate Gardening<\/a> via Chan at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookishgardener.com\/2005\/05\/again_with_the_.html\">Bookish Gardener<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Total Number of Gardening Books I Own:<\/strong>I count 96 that I can get to right now and probably another 20 or 30 in the back room that I can&#8217;t get to because of our kitchen deconstruction project.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Name five of your favorite gardening books:<\/strong><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Passalong Plants.<\/li>\n<li>Collected essays by Henry Mitchell. Essential Earthman and On Gardening.<\/li>\n<li>A Woman&#8217;s Hardy Garden. Helena Rutherford Ely. This book and the catalog from Select Seeds helped me fall in love with old-fashioned flowers.<\/li>\n<li>The Rose Bible. Rayford C. Reddell.<\/li>\n<li>Second Nature: A Gardener&#8217;s Education. Michael Pollan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong>What was the last gardening book you bought (or brought home from the library)?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0972973036\/sr=8-1\/qid=1141100704\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/103-3781219-4339811?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">Garden Lunacy: A Growing Concern<\/a>. When I saw it in the library, I thought the title sounded familiar. Then I remembered, Art Wolk asked if he could reprint one of my anecdotes. And yep, he included it in his book along with my name and this website. Cool!<\/li>\n<li><strong>What was the last gardening book you read?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0292705425\/qid=1141100924\/sr=1-2\/ref=sr_1_2\/103-3781219-4339811?s=books&#038;v=glance&#038;n=283155\">Texas Gardening the Natural Way: The Complete Handbook<\/a>. Howard Garrett. I found the style to be a bit grating. I prefer his Texas Bug Book.<\/li>\n<li><strong>List five books that have been particularly meaningful to you:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Rodale Herb Book. The very first gardening book I ever bought: 30 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Garden Bulbs for the South. Scott Ogden. Started me on my obsession fo. heirloom bulbs for the south like Tulipa clusiana and oxblood lilies.<\/li>\n<li>Roses in the Southern Garden. G. Michael Shoup. Started me on my obsession for heirloom roses for the south.<\/li>\n<li>A Southern Garden and Gardens in Winter. Elizabeth Lawrence.<\/li>\n<li>We Made a Garden. Margery Fish. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong>Name three gardening books you&#8217;ve been dying to read but just haven&#8217;t gotten around to it:<\/strong> These are books I own that I&#8217;ve never gotten around to reading.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers. Sharman Apt Russell.<\/li>\n<li>A Gardener Obsessed. Geoffrey B Charlesworth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong>What gardening books would you most want to have on hand when shut up in the house by a blizzard?<\/strong> Kathy added this. My initial response was, &#8220;Blizzard? What&#8217;s a blizzard. These are all books that get me in the mood.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>The Gardener&#8217;s Year. Karel Capek.<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden.<\/li>\n<li>For Love of a Rose.<\/li>\n<li>Tottering in My Garden.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Jefferson: The Garden and Farm Books.<\/li>\n<li>Tasha Tudor&#8217;s Garden. Tovah Martin. Made me fall in love with the idea of gardening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garden book meme via Cold Climate Gardening. I might have to come back and update it after more thought. And put in some links!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5310,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}