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This book gets full marks for being absolutely lovely, with tons of beautiful photographs. However, while the theme was good, the material was very repetitive. They gave the steps for planning a garden (found in virtually any gardening book: hardscape, focal points, anchor plants, filler plants, groundcover), then said, “you can replace any of your regular plants with edible plants!!“ and then covered the same steps for your front yard, back yard⬇

2/5⭐ Aside from a handful of charts, any useful information in this book is buried in bloated paragraphs of repetition and padding. Even just skimming the majority of pages was a frustrating experience. Though images were often the same set from different angles, they were cute.

My first baby eggplant is sprouting!!

#Naturalitsy

It is so important to rethink how we garden, wild and wonderful is the key. Leave the neat and tidy behind

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/10/ditch-your-spade-forget-fer...

1. Nature! There are so many public gardens in my area. I plan to visit a lot more this year.

2. Our daughter is visiting from Germany for 10 days. She made us dinner tonight!

@Eggs #wondrouswednesday

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June's featured craft is gardening 🪴

I'll be hosting a virtual craft hangout on the 25th so stay tuned for a post with more info.

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Hello #LitsyCrafters
June's featured craft is gardening 🪴

I'll be hosting a virtual craft hangout on the 25th so stay tuned for a post with more info.

As always I still want to see what craft you're working on, so continue to tag me (@catsandbooks) with your projects!

If you're not currently tagged in #LitsyCrafters news and would like to be, let me know.

And here we are in front of Susan's photo.

I‘ve been reading this one for the past month to get design ideas for our backyard! Wish it had a better variety of examples, a lot of landscaping featured homes on wooded lots. I did find a few useful ideas though, especially to turn our drainage easement into a dry creek bed.

#booked2021 #bookwithphotos

I liked this — the text emphasizes importance of natural and native landscapes & has many gorgeous photos with an extensive plant index. *But* it emphasizes mid-Atlantic states such as mine (both authors are local to me), and the plant lists don‘t indicate whether they‘re likely to be deer-proof. That last part is particularly important for us. At right of this photo, see almost no understory below the tall trees due to over-grazing by deer.