Open Your Heart with Gardens: Mastering Life through Love of Plants [Paperback]

Carolyn Haley (Author)

Book Description

Series: Open Your Heart | Publication Date: March 1, 2008

Open Your Heart with Gardens will help you - even if you have a black thumb - learn how you can benefit emotionally and spiritually from gardens. Learn about the more unusual aspects of gardening, such as edible plants, microclimates, and lasagna gardens. And learn how plants can play a variety of beneficial roles in your life: food, beauty, therapy, tools, resource, work, exercise, entertainment, education, comfort, art, and more!

Editorial Reviews

Review

Author of the largest selling garden book in America, EVER, says: "This heartwarming book explains not only how to garden, but why we garden. A good read especially suitable for family gardening." --Mel Bartholomew, originator and author of The ALL NEW Square Foot Gardening book and method

About the Author

Carolyn Haley is a freelancer writer and editor who has been published regularly in New England business journals, as well as ghostwriting for national women's magazines such Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and Women's Day. She has been published in Bird Watcher's Digest (an article called The Rural Entertainment Network that recounts her backyard adventures with wildlife). She works out of her home in rural Vermont, where she has been opening her heart to gardens for the past eight years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: DreamTime Publishing; 1st edition (March 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 160166012X
• ISBN-13: 978-1601660121
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,390,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carolyn Haley is a freelance writer and editor (d/b/a DocuMania) who lives in rural Vermont. She writes a mix of commercial copy and articles for regional and national publications, while helping other authors with diverse projects.

The Mobius Striptease, her first novel, arose from her own questions about anomalies, spirituality, and reincarnation.* Her nonfiction book, Open Your Heart with Gardens, explores the whys and hows of interacting with the living green world. It forms a volume in DreamTime Publishing's "Open Your Heart. . ." series, which helps readers "master your life through what you know."

She maintains a yard-and-garden blog at http://adventures-zone3.blogspot.com

Websites for her books at http://CarolynHaley.wordpress.com
and for her business (DocuMania) at www.documania.us

* Review of Mobius Striptease at:
http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=25054

* Author interviews at:
http://arielemerald.blogspot.com/2010/04/interview-with-author-of-mobius.html
http://www.sellingbooks.com/carolyn-haley-author-interview
http://romanticjourney.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/guest-interview-carolyn-haley-author-of-the-mobius-striptease/
http://authorspromotingauthors.blogspot.com/2010/10/another-story-behind-book-with-carolyn.html

* Related article at:
http://www.calameo.com/read/00014901432cd22de7ee8
(page 46)
also at
http://www.facebook.com/notes/chandra-hoffman-author/writers-on-wednesday-carolyn-haley/180177092000554

Carolyn's reviews of other books at:
http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/reviewer/carolyn-haley
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4313634

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Humorous gardening education, October 5, 2008

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Morgan Wildfire "wild fire morgan lady" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Open Your Heart with Gardens: Mastering Life through Love of Plants (Paperback)

What I like about this book is that you can laugh and learn at the same time!!! I've tried some of the "new ways" from this book and some made it and other didn't. That won't stop me from trying again next year...every gardening year is different and next year is the best!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun AND informative!, July 2, 2008

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Siān Jones (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Open Your Heart with Gardens: Mastering Life through Love of Plants (Paperback)

Open Your Heart with Gardens: Mastering Life through Love of Plants (Open Your Heart With) What a fabulous read this book is! As a would-be gardener whose thumb has mostly tended toward the brown, I read this book with growing enthusiasm. I not only learned a lot about things of which I'd never heard (lasagna gardening???), but I was entertained all the way through. With wit and intelligence, the author has transformed an often overwhelming subject into an inspirational dip into the glories of gardening. Once I finished the book, I found myself noticing plants in a whole new way; plus, I started my own mini garden in the city! The resources in the book will be useful for years. I wholeheartedly recommend this book!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For any amateur gardener hoping to get something intangible yet invaluable out of their gardens., May 6, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Open Your Heart with Gardens: Mastering Life through Love of Plants (Paperback)

Growing your own garden, raising the plants to maturity and then enjoying the spoils of your long, hard, arduous labors can create quite the sense of accomplishment in you - it can almost be explained as enlightening. "Open Your Heart with Gardens: Mastering Life Through Love of Plants" is here to help those who seek this sense of accomplishment and enlightenment achieve those very feelings using the hobby of gardening. Promoting tips on how you can benefit from gardens emotionally even if it isn't your own, the unusual quirks of gardening, and the other benefits the garden can promote for its' gardeners. "Open Your Heart with Gardens: Mastering Life Through Love of Plants" is highly recommended for both self-help and gardening community library collections, and for any amateur gardener hoping to get something intangible yet invaluable out of their gardens.