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Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet | Marta McDowell

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Tagged book I love. I also have the same type book about Beatrice Potter. Both amazing.

#FRIDAYNIGHTSHARE

I‘m looking for what they call “kitchen garden” book. My grandma had one back in the day but I can‘t find anything. Suggestions ???

#naturalitsy #litsolace

Chrissyreadit, AllDebooks

mabell I have this one, illustrated by Tasha Tudor

Betty Crocker's Kitchen Gardens

TheBookHippie @mabell oh thank you I love Tasha Tudor!!! 3w

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TheBookHippie

The Complete Book of Herbs | Lesley Bremness

My favorite book for herbs 🌱🍃🌿🌱

#LitSolace #SpringEquinox
#Fridaynightshare favourite Spring -Non-fiction book.

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Chrissyreadit, AllDebooks

Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛 1mo

AllDebooks 💚🌱💚 1mo

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Billypar

Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet | Marta McDowell

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#AuldLangSpine
@TheBookHippie @monalyisha
I love the concept of a bio that zeros in on an artist's favorite hobby. Something about focusing on something besides her writing made Emily Dickinson feel more like a real person instead of her standard brilliant poet role. The page layouts are gorgeous - McDowell discusses ED's relationship to gardening throughout her life, along with photos, illustrations, poems, and excerpts from letters. 🌺🌻🌼🌷🪻

monalyisha Wow, yeah. What a pretty example of book as visual art! 1mo

TheBookHippie I just LOVE IT! I‘m so happy you did as well!!! 1mo

Texreader How awesome!! Love this post too!! 1mo

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TheBookHippie

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales | Marta McDowell

#hyggehourreadathon

Pretending it‘s gardening time 💚

jenniferw88, Chrissyreadit, AllDebooks

Cupcake12 I love the cushion design x 1mo

AllDebooks 🌱🤞soon 🌱💚 1mo

mabell I heard this author speak at the MO Botanical Garden! I gave this book to my mom last year 😊 She also wrote the Gardening Can Be Murder book @Chrissyreadit 1mo

TheBookHippie @mabell I have the Emily Dickinson one as well. How fun you heard her speak!!! It‘s an amazing book! 1mo

mabell I gave the Emily to my mom too! I enjoyed the author very much - She was quite an entertaining speaker 1mo

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Leftcoastzen

I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon | Mac Griswold

No shelf control! #bookhaul

Graywacke Lovely! 🙂 1mo

LeahBergen These look super interesting! 1mo

Hooked_on_books Oooo, looks like an awesome haul! 1mo

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Crinoline_Laphroaig

In the Garden with Jane Austen | Kim Wilson

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#Pemberlittens I've been contemplating color schemes for flower beds up against the house. There are plenty of foundation shrubs for greenery but no flowers. And then replacement copy of In The Garden with Jane Austen. My brick and brick at Chawtow Cottage are a close match! It's giving me lots of inspiration. 🏡

#inthegardenwithjaneausten

julieclair Love this! Would love to see a pic once you've planted the flowers. 1mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig @julieclair absolutely! 1mo

julieclair Yay! 1mo

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DebinHawaii

Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island | Lucinda Fleeson

Thanks @Eggs for the #TLT #ThreeListThursday tag! 🤗

Hard to narrow it down to 3 but:

1️⃣ The tagged book is set in Kauai & I love the combo of memoir, science/plants & history. 🌺

2️⃣ The View From the Cheap Seats-Neil Gaiman essays, many about writing & books—what‘s not to love? ✍️🖤

3️⃣ I‘ll Be Gone in the Dark: Amazing true crime (I had to read it in daylight) but the whole story around Michelle McNamara & the Golden State Killer, wow! 😱

dabbe

Eggs You‘re welcome ☺️ 1mo

dabbe You've given me even more to explore! Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 1mo

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TheBookHippie

Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obession | Andrea Wulf

#naturalitsy read

I just loved this.

I also found the authors website and added a ton of oh I must read that …https://www.andreawulf.com/andrea-wulf/about-the-brother-gardeners.html

AllDebooks

AllDebooks Oh my 😍 2mo

Chrissyreadit so i thought it was slow- should i keep going? 2mo

TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit I loved the pictures too. I dunno I‘m fascinated with the backstory and how plants got where 👩🏻‍🌾🪴 I did read a little everyday -maybe that‘s the key. 2mo

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jlhammar

Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obession | Andrea Wulf

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So interesting! Extensively researched and very readable. #NaturaLitsy

AllDebooks

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AllDebooks

The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession | Andrea Wulf

#Naturalitsy

Hi all, I've missed our weekly chats!

Here's the discussion thread for February's #buddyread for you to share your thoughts.
I really hope you enjoyed it. I still have the last section to go, so I will catch up over the next few days.
All welcome to join in the discussion.

AllDebooks Next up - March #buddyread https://litsy.com/p/U1NvY1VlRkY4

The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

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Cuilin For a book that could have been dry, I found it exciting, compelling and informative. I loved it! I will be reading more by this author. I loved the relationships, the petty arguments by letter, the voyages, even Cpt Blythe showed up. The casual racism, slavery, and Imperialism though of its time was still frustrating. Overall well written. 2mo

TheBookHippie I love it. Almost done reading. 2mo

jlhammar Enlightening read! Really enjoyed. In Part I, I thought it was so interesting (and kind of funny from a modern day perspective) that Fairchild felt the need to attribute his hybrid to accident. And the uproar over and resistance to the Linneaus classification system, “inadequate because the sexual organs of plants were 'mere geewgaws'“ was also fascinating (and amusing 😆). 2mo

jlhammar This bit from Part 2 made me chuckle “His worst insult he saved for the hated Siegesbeck, who, as punishment for having so relentlessly criticised Linnaeus's sexual system, will be forever remembered in Siegesbeckia, a stinking weed that thrives in wasteland.“ 2mo

jlhammar Lots of disturbing behavior in Part 3 such as Banks and Solander taking Tupia, a Tahitian priest, back to England to “keep him as a curiosity.“ I liked how Banks gave his wife a brooch of dried moss and she was less than enthusiastic 😆 “fool that she likes diamonds better.“ 2mo

Bookwormjillk I spend a lot of time removing invasive plants and re-planting with native species, so I had had to chuckle at the topic of this book. I enjoyed it although I got all of the people confused. 2mo

yourfavouritemixtape I liked it a lot. It was very interesting and very entertaining to read. I also thought Fairchild‘s problem with his hybrid was fascinating. As well as Linneaus‘ story. 2mo

AllDebooks I'm so glad you enjoyed it @Cuilin @TheBookHippie @jlhammar @Bookwormjillk @yourfavouritemixtape 2mo

AllDebooks It was a completely unexpected read. I, too, thought it might be a bit dry and stuffy @Cuilin But Wulf has done a fantastic job at tracing these mens lives from the UK, Europe and the States. I was fascinated by the petty squabbles and felt for Bartram. He really was taken advantage before the subscription boxes started. 2mo

AllDebooks Who knew Linnaeus was such as ass? 🤔 2mo

AllDebooks I was quite surprised that a number of species I thought were native to UK are in fact, from the Americas. 2mo

Cuilin @AllDebooks I wondered if the author regretted naming her daughter Linnea. 2mo

Cuilin @jlhammar 🤣🤣🤣 2mo

AllDebooks @Cuilin 😅 2mo

TheBookHippie @AllDebooks I had this same thought when watching a Catherine The Great documentary about her gardens. She grew food from the Americas to prevent famine but also flowers. One never thinks of things like that or I guess I didn‘t. 2mo

CatLass007 @AllDebooks Please add me to the tag list for #NaturaLitsy. I‘ll join you in March.

The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

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AllDebooks @CatLass007 Great, welcome 😊 2mo

CatLass007 Thank you! 2mo

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