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

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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!!!

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!

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.

A book that leads you through the many, varied worlds of gardening, this is a great read for anyone who's looking for a way to bring plants into their life. The author's personal experiences with raising flowers and vegetables provide a realistic (often amusing) narrative for the home gardener along with lots of helpful hints. Also helpful is the extensive resource list that provides websites for all sorts of gardening information. This is a fun and useful volume to feed your gardening needs.

Open your Heart with Gardens inspired me. I want to start my garden right now, in the middle of February. Great ideas for how and why to garden for the hobbyist gardener. Insightful and though provoking, I enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoy doing it.