I am really, really excited about the new Southern gardening book which just appeared in my gardening section by surprise a couple of weeks ago. Everyone who has looked at it agrees with me that it is a beautiful book, but also a “keeper” for Southern gardeners. The photos alone are “eye candy” for obsessed gardeners. Just thumbing through it gave me a thrill to see all of the “knock-down/drag out ” plants and flowers. From the close up photos of such individual flowers as the Crinum lily called “Sangria” and the closeup photo of the Mayhaw blossoms, to the larger photos of such glorious trees as the Changsha tangerine growing in Texas, to the Satsuma tree also in Texas, well, my heart leaped for joy.
Heirloom Gardening in the South is divided into these sections: “Exploring Our Gardening Heritage”, “Rediscovering a Wealth of Southern Heirloom Plants”, “The Right Plant in the Right Place”, “Heirloom Plants of the South”, and “How Our Gardens Grew: Creating Your Own Garden Traditions”. Within each of these sections are logical divisions, such as in “Exploring Our Gardening Heritage”, the reader/gardener will find Native American influence, Spanish influence, French influence, African influence, English influence, German influence, Italian influence,and Asian influence. -Nan
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