Carolyne Roehm's Summer Notebook (Spiral-bound)

by Carolyne Roehm (Author)

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Amazon.com Review
Good intentions tend to bloom and fade like a perennial: next year, you'll dig up the border by the front walk and install those delphiniums you've always wanted; next year, you'll put up those abundant tomatoes so you can savor them during the depths of winter. To realize those good intentions, try organizing them with fashion designer and author Carolyne Roehm's Summer Notebook. Or, if your creative fields lie fallow once in a while (and whose don't?), borrow the seed of an idea from Roehm, who broadcasts her favorites for everyone's benefit.

This is a notebook (complete with grid paper for planning, lined pages for notes, and pouches for clippings), garden-design and flower color-combination guide, garden journal, recipe book--in essence, it's an idea book, a place to record your ideas and learn from Roehm's. The grounds of her Connecticut home, Weatherstone, serve as the canvas for her botanical muse. In the course of showing off her gardening victories, as well as admitting to her failures, we get chapters on Roehm's potager, inspired by Louis XIV's geometrically laid-out kitchen garden at Versailles; her quest for the perfect perennial border; the extreme state of her hydrangea envy and rose obsession; details of a Fourth of July celebration and a summer wedding held at Weatherstone; odes to peaches, corn, and tomatoes; and an "end paper" on the dread Japanese beetle.

All this, along with abundant color photos, recipes, floral-arrangement tips, and helpful hints like how to make your own floral preservative, make this inaugural installment in the Notebook series (Fall is next, of course) a unique addition to any avid gardener's library. --Stefanie Durbin

Product Description
The Notebook

• A seasonal scrapbook of gardening methods, recipes and tabletop designs.

• Hands-on workbook format with pockets for clippings and graph paper for plans.

• Tips on holiday festivities and decorating ideas with pages for notes.

• Full-color instructions to creat magnificent bouquets from the summer garden.

• Lists of favorite perennials and annuals for grow-your-own arrangments.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 144 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins (April 20, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060193875
• ISBN-13: 978-0060193874
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 9.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #469,089 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and useful, June 6, 1999

By A Customer

This book is lovely and terrific. It has the georgeous photographs, gardening and entertaining tips, room for notes and planning and even recipes to use up your harvest. As a novice gardener I find it inspirational, and I would think anyone who loves flowers would enjoy this book.

I can't wait for the next notebook.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific for Summer!, May 11, 1999

By A Customer

This is a good summer planner, good garden layout for veggie garden, perennial border, and just ideas. I met her in person, she is a very nice lady.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good purchase, February 23, 2006

By	Annarita Rivasi "Annarita Rivasi" (Castelvetro di Modena, Italy) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Exactly the hints and fashion details I was looking for. Briefly but clearly explained, great photos, superbe book.