Spring Notebook: Garden, Hearth, Traditions, Home [Spiral-bound]

Carolyne Roehm (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 5, 2000

A spring scrapbook of gardening methods, recipes, and tabletop designs.

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

Tips on Easter and Mother's Day festivities and decorating ideas with pages for notes.

Full-color instructions to create magnificent spring bouquets.

How to make over the vegetable garden into potager.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Combining lovely scrapbook pages with a wealth of inspiration, recipes, and design suggestions, the Spring Notebook from Carolyne Roehm is the last seasonal title in her series. With a gorgeous matte cover disguising a practical spiral binding, you can refer to this frequently, and for years to come, without affecting its sturdiness one bit.

Separate areas focus on individual types of blooms--all the spring classics are here, including daffodils, tulips, pansies, and peonies. Discussion is mainly about the arranging and choosing of plants--for details on such practicalities as pest control or bulb rot, look elsewhere. Even a few favorite seasonal edibles are addressed--recipes for rhubarb, strawberries, and asparagus will have your mouth watering, and most, such as simple Rhubarb Bread, are straightforward and without a lot of extra steps. In all sections, the photographs are lush and light-filled, and seem evenly mixed between close-ups full of incredible detail and larger shots that provide a sense of a plant's overall effect in a garden. Detailed lists of possible plant choices are given for each category, limited to the author's favorites from her own gardens--with 3,000 tulips in the world to choose from, you'll be glad for the restraint Roehm shows in including only 62. A delightful way of containing all of spring's bounty into one book, this scrapbook will provide you with one special place for keeping your ideas, notes, and memories of the season. --Jill Lightner

About the Author

Carolyne Roehm, noted author and lifestyle contributor to Good Morning America, brings her gardening expertise to viewers weekly as the host of Country Homes, Country Gardens.

In 1991, Roehm, who had always taken great pleasure in indulging and surrounding herself with things she loved, decided to turn her personal passion for beauty and comfort into a fulfilling career. A longtime associate (and neighbor) of famed couturier, Oscar de la Renta, Roehm began her own fashion business, setting her designs apart from many others in the industry with her unflagging insistence on only the finest quality materials. Her designs quickly found a home with discriminating consumers, as her first year alone saw revenues exceeding $3 million. But Roehm's passion for beauty extended beyond the world of fashion, and she became determined to broaden her horizons accordingly.

Following a stint at the famed Paris flower shop, Moulie Savart, Roehm took the knowledge she gained there and put it into practical use for the everyday gardener. Resulting from her considerable experience, she takes great joy in revealing the many secrets she learned to help everyone achieve a bountiful and beautiful garden.

In 1997, Roehm published her first book, A Passion for Flowers (September 1997, HarperCollins Publishers) in which she detailed the experts' tricks to perfect gardening. A firm believer in luxury for everyone, Roehm feels that luxury doesn't necessarily mean expensive. Her breathtaking floral arrangements, for example, traditionally contain many common flowers such as carnations, marigolds, bleeding hearts, and Queen Anne's lace, which she collects from her own garden at her Connecticut home.

Roehm applies the fashion lessons she learned to her flowers. The familiar cry of "accessorize" is as important to arranging blooms as it is to one's own appearance. "I can't tell you how often I've seen a dress ruined with the wrong accessories," Roehm explains. "It's the same with flowers. Even the most beautiful flowers don't work if they're in the wrong vase or placed against the wrong background."

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 192 pages
• Publisher: Harper (April 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060194537
• ISBN-13: 978-0060194536
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 9.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #438,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Miss This Fabulous Book!, April 7, 2000

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This review is from: Spring Notebook: Garden, Hearth, Traditions, Home (Spiral-bound)

In her new book "Spring Notebook" Carolyne Roehm has outdone herself again. If you love gardening, flowers and entertaining this is a inspiring and breathtaking book! The pictures are beautiful and the book is packed full of lots of gardening tips and recipes. The book is done in a spiral bound format and there are folders to keep your own clippings, gardening ideas and recipes in. There are a list of sources in the back of the book! This is truly a enjoyable book that you will want to keep forever.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Feast for the eyes, May 8, 2000

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This review is from: Spring Notebook: Garden, Hearth, Traditions, Home (Spiral-bound)

These books are enjoyable to look at, quite beautifully photographed. Very relaxing to browse through. However, they are short on horticultural details for the plants that are featured, so one should not buy them for that kind of information. The recipes are good, the floral arrangements are inspiring. The format of focusing on one season at a time makes them a nice primer to help you think about what you want to accomplish or gear up for in the next three months, which is nice from a planning perspective. The ability to write notes in the spaces provided is a plus for this sort of planning. And Ms. Roehm gives photo credits to those employees who make her lifestyle possible by doing a lot of the work in her garden and home, unlike some well-known domestic divas.

5.0 out of 5 stars Are you an avid gardener? If so, THIS is the set for you!, January 14, 2012

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This review is from: Spring Notebook: Garden, Hearth, Traditions, Home (Spiral-bound)

At first glance I fell in love with this gardening set by Carolyne Roehm, a set of four books, one for each season. I would say they are a feast for your eyes, and a help for your garden to boot. I love the additional sections for your own notes!