Nancy Brachey's Guide to Piedmont Gardening [Paperback]

Nancy Brachey (Author), Sandy Hill (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2001

Nancy Brachey's Guide to Piedmont Gardening is a comprehensive gardening reference for any Piedmont area resident. As the gardening editor of the Charlotte Observer, Nancy has helped beginners and advanced gardeners from the basics of planting to cultivating a garden.

The book offers a month-by-month guide to gardening. Each month includes sections like "What to Plant", "It's Time to...", "What is Blooming", and "Ask Nancy: Answers to Some Common Problems" as well as other topics relevant to the month.

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About the Author

Sandy Hill has worked as an editor, a contributor, and a writer for numerous publications, including Vogue, Mademoiselle, Bride's, Conde Nast Traveler, Allure, Men's Journal, and USA Today. She may be best known for her successful quest to climb the "seven summits," the highest mountain on every continent, including Mt. Everest, about which she reported on camera and online for NBC News. In 2000, she realized another dream, to own a vineyard and ranch in California. Sandy now divides her time between her Oak Savanna Vineyard (located in Santa Barbara County), New York City, Miami, and Alamos, Mexico.

Brachey is the garden editor of the Charlotte Observer, and has written about gardens and gardeners of the Piedmont Carolinas since 1976. She is a journalism graduate of the University of Florida & studied horticulture at North Carolina State University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC (March 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157167490X
• ISBN-13: 978-1571674906
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,039,637 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars World Wide Gardening., September 16, 2001

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Britt Arnhild Lindland (Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nancy Brachey's Guide to Piedmont Gardening (Paperback)

I have Nancy Brachey's Guide to Piedmont Gardening on my coffee table, and in the nights, after a day in my Nordic garden I love to look in it.

Piedmont is far, far from Mid-Norway where I live, and many of Nancy's suggestions will never work in my area. Other suggestions are perfect, and this shows me that gardening is a joy we can share world wide.

Nancy Brachey is the garden editor of The Charlotte Observer for 25 years. Though Nancy's area is a southern one, Nancy travels worldwide and has a very special eye for gardens - I believe the English and the Italian ones are her favorites. She picks up ideas on her travels and bring them back to Carolina for her neighbours to enjoy. The Guide book is a month-by-month guide stuffed with practical tips for big and small gardeners. Your garden can be a huge and unique one, or it can be just a tiny little spot right outside your kitchen door. Nancy has information for both, and invites us to join her in her love of gardening.

The book is filled with drawings and pictures. For a Norwegian like me I sometimes would love more color pictures to recognize the plants she is talking about, but her ton á ton green pictures have their very special charm.

I'm moving to a new house with a bigger garden these days, and Nancy's book will move with me and have it's natural place on my new coffee table. Thanks Nancy for sharing your love of gardening.

Britt Arnhild Lindland