The beauty of winter is hardly lost on the avid gardener. This is the time to sit back and contemplate the successes of last year and plan for the new one. What better way to keep the gardening ideas flowing than to pick up a good book and read what other gardeners are doing? Here are some titles that are sure to stimulate your thought processes and invigorate your gardening spirits. Art Wolk’s book, Garden Lunacy, (AAB Book Publishing LLC, 2005) is great way to brighten a dreary winter night. And, if your plans include competitive gardening, this book shows you the way.
Focusing on the gardener, the person at the “wooden end” of the shovel, not the plant at the “metal pointy end,” Art has a light-hearted humor that brings a chuckle with every page, while introducing us to the dead serious world of the high-stakes gardening that wins prizes at the Philadelphia Flower Show.
Travel with Art as he takes you on the roller-coaster ride from the novice gardener (one who hasn’t yet “killed 100 plants”) of 1978, to the prize-winning author (one who “has killed 100,000 plants in fewer than 25 years”). From the euphoria of his first blue ribbon through the tense and occasionally hilarious times that follow, he makes us feel the tensions, frustrations & exhilaration of his career as a garden lecturer, photographer, TV show host and horticultural competitor, in short, a hortiholic.
Are you curious about how they take those outstanding photos in the garden magazines? Or how the exhibitors at the PFS get their plants ready and whether you have what it takes to join their ranks? Art gleefully takes you behind the scenes and reveals all.
Just because the temperatures are colder does not mean you have to spend the winter months cooped up inside. So spend the winter gardening in your armchair with a good book from the library.
Just because the temperatures are colder does not mean you have to spend the winter months cooped up inside. So spend the winter gardening in your armchair with a good book from the library.