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Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
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Sooner or later, every older gardener faces a similar challenge. At some point, we all find ourselves asking “If I can’t get out there and dig, plant, and prune as I used to, what am I going to do?”
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Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
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5 Comments
July 13th, 2010 at 6:48 am
Enjoyable read about downsizing a long-established garden.I However I could not relate too much as I do not have acres and acres to garden. Still recommend especially for older gardens.
Rating: 4 / 5
July 13th, 2010 at 7:53 am
This book fell into my hands at just the right time. It put into print my current thoughts and reaffirmed my direction. It also provided some new ideas. I loved it. The real plus of adding the shrubs and evergreens is that my garden has taken on some great character it was lacking.
Rating: 5 / 5
July 13th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Sydney allows you into her garden and her life in a most charming, readable way. As she ages so must her tollerance for heavy garden work change. She suggests very commonsense ideas for reducing garden chores, but more than that she gives the reader the confidence and courage to do it. Gardeners tend to add more and more, cherishing every seedling and offshoot of their specimens, until the tasks beecome overwhelming. They find a new home for every little blooming thing adding more and more beds to their yards.
The book is not just for older folks, but for everyone who is gardening, yet busy with family and work. Actually it is valuable information for the tyro gardener. If I had been privy to her advice from the start, my gardens would be different and I would have, perhaps, enjoyed them more.
Rating: 5 / 5
July 13th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Valerie Easton’s The NEW Low-Maintenance Garden – How to Have a Beautiful, Productive Garden and the Time to Enjoy It. The Easton book is an easy five stars, this Gardening for a Lifetime pales by comparison. I really did not find that much specific, helpful information in it, where I did in Easton’s book complete with many garden photographs, plant recommendations, etc. A much more complete book on the topic than this one.
Rating: 2 / 5
July 13th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Though I haven’t yet finished the book (too busy gardening!), I am enjoying it. What I find missing is a diagram of her garden! There are numerous sketches of plants, but none of the garden areas that she constantly refers to. It would have made it much easier to understand what she has done, if the illustrator had added perhaps before and after sketches of the basic garden layout.
Rating: 4 / 5