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The Hollyberry Lady
03-13-2011, 04:58 PM
Here's one of my personal favorites...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02671.jpg


Back cover...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02674.jpg


You can tell it's been well used by how dirty it is! :ha:


It covers an array of topics and if you blow these next pictures up you can read the table of contents...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02672.jpg


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02673.jpg


Here's another book I enjoy...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02670.jpg


What are your favorite garden books?


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Jananas Bananas
03-13-2011, 09:45 PM
This may take a while for me. I have them all over the house. :ha: Here's a couple that were actually in the bookcase where they are supposed to be!

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110313024.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110313028.jpg

~JaNan

The Hollyberry Lady
03-13-2011, 11:26 PM
I get a lot of really expensive garden books on clearance at the end of the season for dirt cheap. These Miracle Grow books are a perfect example. Initially they wanted 25 bucks each for them, not including tax! :eek:


On clearance at the end of the season, I picked them up for 5 bucks each! :D


They are all excellent and contain very current methods & ways of doing things. Many of the popular plants people are growing nowadays are featured in all three...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02711.jpg


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02709.jpg


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02710.jpg


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The Hollyberry Lady
03-14-2011, 12:32 PM
This is another amazing garden book. It's a Bay book and it has every plant you can imagine in it...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02712.jpg


It's around 3 inches thick and it's super heavy...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02715.jpg


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Richard
03-14-2011, 01:27 PM
Plant Propagation, A. Toogood. ISBN 078945520X. http://www.plantsthatproduce.com/image_gallery/PlantPropagation.jpg
Western Garden Book of Edibles: The Complete A-Z Guide to Growing Your Own Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits January 2010 edition ISBN 0376039183. http://www.plantsthatproduce.com/products/Western_Garden_Edibles.jpg
How To Prune Fruit Trees, R.S. Martin. ISBN 0963574809. http://www.plantsthatproduce.com/products/Martin_How_To_Prune_21ED.jpg
Cornucopia II - A Source Book Of Edible Plants, Stephen Facciola. ISBN 0962808725. http://www.plantsthatproduce.com/image_gallery/Cornucopia_II.jpg
The 64 Dollar Tomato, W. Alexander. ISBN 1565125576. http://www.plantsthatproduce.com/products/64_Dollar_Tomato.jpg

The Hollyberry Lady
03-14-2011, 04:40 PM
This one is super colorful with lots of great pictures and information, by Lance Hattatt...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02723.jpg


This next book is incredible for gardening indoors, including under HID light systems as well as hydroponics. It's just loaded with fantastic information...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02725.jpg


A must read for indoor veggie and fruit growers, under lights or in windows as well.


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Jananas Bananas
03-14-2011, 06:01 PM
Here's my bathroom stash! :ha:

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110314008.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110314009.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110314012.jpg

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http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110314017.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110314018.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110314019.jpg

~JaNan

The Hollyberry Lady
03-14-2011, 06:19 PM
Too funny! I have a bathroom stash too...those are the ones I never lend out! :ha:


My mom bought me this wonderful garden book written by two gardening women friends who are older and in not so good health...the book is a collection of their gardening letters to each other throughout the years and they offer healing and hope through horticulture. It's one of the best garden books I've read and there's many unique tips and ideas in their letters.


A truly wonderful book...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02720.jpg


Written by Diane Sims & Marla Fletcher.


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Jananas Bananas
03-14-2011, 08:38 PM
That is very sweet.

Here's a couple more:

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110313029.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110313026.jpg

This doesn't look like it, but a lot of it is about healing through herbs and plants.
http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110313027.jpg

~J

The Hollyberry Lady
03-14-2011, 08:50 PM
It really is a great book and the letters they write to each other are so interesting and uplifting...but all about gardening. I'll copy a good one to show you, sometime soon.


In the meantime though, here's another good garden read...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02722.jpg


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The Hollyberry Lady
03-14-2011, 11:07 PM
Here's one of the garden letters from the "Solace" book.


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02720.jpg


Too interesting not to read...


They were two women struggling with loss of loved ones through death and also dealing with bad turns in their health...but they kept writing to each other, finding solace in their gardens and letters.


Each letter would focus on different plants and they would include information they found out about the plants...including lore. I found it to be one interesting and captivating book that I couldn't put down.


Here's an example of just a single letter contained within. Too special & beautiful not to share...



Dear Anne:


Your lemon balm has comfortably edged its way into my life: I searched my old perennial garden and found a struggling shrub tucked under a pink rosebush amidst some shasta daisies and bee balm. And lemon balm is one of the cooling ingredients in the face tonic you sent me. Here, in return, is a flower you and I both love - the cornflower.

"When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds, there could be no rain, and there would be no flower".

As I work through my pain, the simple blue Centaurea montana embodies that thought from renowned thinker and scholar Thich Nhat Hanh. Annie, I don't wish this physical or emotional pain on anyone, but it has shaped much of who I am. I have to focus on today, as tomorrow seems overwhelming.

With your help, I am learning day by day about my garden, including these happy cornflowers. Now here's what I've discovered...

These sentinel perennials acquired their generic name from Chiron, the wise and gentle centaur accidently wounded by Hercules' poisonous arrows. In Greek mythology these stately garden guards helped treat the wounded centaur. Alas, the immortal Chiron suffered sorely. Prometheus looked kindly on Chiron and took on his mantle of immortality, thereby allowing the centaur to die. Then, in 288 B.C., a Greek philosopher identified the wild knapweed as a Centaurea, and that name took root, notes Laura C. Martin in Wildflower Folklore.

There's an equally sad story associated with another member of the Centaurea family. This deep-blue wildflower is apparently named for Cyanus, a young woman who made floral garlands for festivals in Roman times. The woman was devoted to Flora, the goddess of flowers. When Flora found her friend dead in a field one day, she transformed her into a cornflower in heartfelt tribute.

The popular "coneflower" moniker comes from England, where the plant were abundant in grain fields. Then, the English Victorians associated the cornflower with purity & delicacy.

In our part of the country, the three-foot stalks of Centaurea send up long, silvery leaves in early June. Their thin petals barel hint at the telltale blue disks that will open by July. It is that sky-blue hue that captures the essence of the cosmos in Thich Nhat Hanh's quote. But pink and white varieties also exist.

These fringed flowers enjoy my dry, sunny garden and make grand companions for poppies, day lilies and irises. As well, there's a showier type called bachelor's button that does well from May-sown seeds. (I have not tried these).

The Centaurea is easy to grow and flowers throughout the summer, with long-lasting blooms. It will stay fresh for quite a while when cut, and the bud resembles a button. According to Wildflower Folklore, it thus became known as bachelor's button - a handsome boutonniere. Cutting back after the first flowering will usually bring new blooms in fall, a bonus!

When I see the cornflower's feathery fingers reaching upward, my soul stirs with hope - for I know that next year these faithful pompons will again grace my garden. :D


Elizabeth.



I loved this letter because I grew these flowers (Centaurea Cyanus), as well...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/034.jpg


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Richard
03-15-2011, 10:46 AM
... This doesn't look like it, but a lot of it is about healing through herbs and plants. (New Choices In Natural Healing, ed. B. Gottlieb).
~J

Here's a more factual book on the subject:
Herbs Demystified, H. Phanauf. ISBN 1569244081. http://www.plantsthatproduce.com/image_gallery/HerbsDemystified.jpg

The Hollyberry Lady
03-15-2011, 12:58 PM
This is another great big heavy hardcover garden book, for people who like factual, but not boring. It really simplifies things...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02739-1.jpg


by Betty Barr Mackey. ;)


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Blake09
03-24-2011, 04:18 PM
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http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/house%20plants/007.jpg

Jananas Bananas
03-24-2011, 05:48 PM
http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110324012.jpg

~JaNan

saltydad
03-24-2011, 06:17 PM
http://stokestropicals.plants.com/Assets/ProductImages/610-0200-bks.jpg
http://books.google.com/books?id=KfnqAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&l=220

saltydad
03-24-2011, 06:21 PM
http://www.timberpress.com/images/books/covers/200px/9780881925753m.jpg

http://www.kkorchid.com/images/medium/book-aos-your-first-orchid_MED.jpg

http://www.gardenguides.com/books/images/sunsetwatergardens200.jpg

saltydad
03-24-2011, 06:26 PM
http://www.sepalms.org/Publications/Sample%20Cover%20low.jpg

saltydad
03-24-2011, 06:27 PM
http://www.sepalms.org/Publications/2004%20winter%20cover.jpg

This is the journal of the Southeastern Palm Society, a fantastic magazine and an organization I recommend highly to join.
Southeastern Palm Society (http://www.sepalms.org/index.html)

saltydad
03-24-2011, 06:32 PM
Another fine magazine-Fine Gardening
http://www.finegardening.com/media/fg139cov.jpg

saltydad
03-24-2011, 06:34 PM
http://books.google.com/books?id=E36EQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&l=220

Taylor's Guide to Perennials

The Hollyberry Lady
03-25-2011, 02:46 PM
Wow...some excellent books you guys!!! :waving:


Thanks for sharing. ;)


Here are a couple more of my favorite garden reads. We have Canadian versions...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02945.jpg


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC02946.jpg


Sorry the shots are a little dark. Forgot to turn on the flash! :(


More books soon...


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Rmplmnz
03-27-2011, 07:50 PM
Very Nice..

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=41147&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=41147)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=41146&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=41146)

The Hollyberry Lady
03-28-2011, 06:38 PM
Wow, looks like you've had that book for awhile, Rmplmnz! I bet it's loaded with tons of great ideas, tips, and methods. :08:


Thanks for showing. ;)


I'll take more pics soon of some of my books...they're everywhere! :ha:


Here's one I've been reading a lot lately though...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/2nd%20album/DSC03087.jpg


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Jananas Bananas
04-07-2011, 11:27 AM
Here's another of mine:

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110406081.jpg

~JaNan

Jananas Bananas
04-17-2011, 04:03 PM
These are a set and probably my favorites of all my books. They are really thick and heavy and notebook style. Plus, the pictures are gorgeous!

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/DSCF0193.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/DSCF0188.jpg

~JaNan

Dalmatiansoap
05-01-2011, 11:20 AM
Found myself in bookstore yesterday and guess what, got myself 3 gardening books:ha::ha::ha:
Im going nuts, hey?
:woohoonaner:

The Hollyberry Lady
05-01-2011, 11:47 AM
It depends on how many you have, Ante. If you already have 50 books and you just bought 3 more...than yup you're nuts! :ha:

Believe me...I know! :D


So what books did you get, anyway?


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Dalmatiansoap
05-01-2011, 11:54 AM
Yap, going nuts makes sence:ha:
Mostly about vegetable gardening and stuff like that...

john_ny
05-03-2011, 03:57 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=42416&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=42416&ppuser=826)

Jananas Bananas
05-03-2011, 04:18 PM
http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110424144.jpg

~JaNan

Dean W.
05-03-2011, 11:17 PM
Don't know that I like them, but I have them.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=42423&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=42423)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=42424&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=42424)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=42425&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=42425)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=42426&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=42426)

john_ny
05-04-2011, 10:31 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=42431&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=42431&ppuser=826)

Blake09
05-27-2011, 08:04 PM
I red a book latley that I love... I dont Have a picture of it, but I can give you its name:

Old-Time Country wisdom & Lore
1000's of traditional skills for simple living...
Jerry Mack Johnson

The Hollyberry Lady
06-10-2011, 04:21 PM
Here's an excellent book I've been enjoying lately by George F. Van Patten & Alyssa F. Bust...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/3rd%20album/100_0828.jpg


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Jananas Bananas
06-10-2011, 04:58 PM
Here's a few more of mine! :)

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110610092.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110610094.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110610095.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110610097.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110610098.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110610101.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110610106.jpg

~JaNan

john_ny
06-10-2011, 07:18 PM
Here's a couple more of mine. Over the years, I've aquired quite a load of them.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43406&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43406)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43407&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43407&ppuser=826)

The Hollyberry Lady
08-30-2011, 02:19 AM
Bought some new and current garden books earlier today. I'm especially looking forward to this heavy hardcover...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/3rd%20album/IMG_0973.jpg


These next ones are small reference books but very thick and heavy too...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/3rd%20album/IMG_0974.jpg


Lots of information...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/3rd%20album/IMG_0976.jpg


They've even got some cloth book bags now to carry three or four of your good size books...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/3rd%20album/IMG_0979.jpg


I love the new strong metal snap magnet bookmarks they have now too. Here's one I bought...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/3rd%20album/IMG_0978.jpg


It wraps and snaps right around your book...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/3rd%20album/IMG_0977.jpg


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The Hollyberry Lady
09-18-2011, 09:41 AM
Remember the days when a magazine cost a buck fifty? Well those days are long gone. :ha:


Now they cost 14 bucks! :eek:


Here's a pretty cool new issue I got, to read on the beach...


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo193/hollyberrylady08/3rd%20album/IMG_1201.jpg


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SoBe Musa
09-18-2011, 12:37 PM
Great thread Sherry..Thank you!
Here's a review of my favorite book, By Florida Urban Homestead blog, is pretty much the way i feel about it and the impact of the book on my gardening..easy for me to follow is truly a gem. Emily

Review link:http://floridaurbanhomestead.com/tag/james-m-stephens/

This is a great book. Out of any book I have read on gardening, it is by far the most useful to me. Like the title says, it is geared to Florida gardens. It talks about the decreases, pests and other troubles that visit our gardens here in the Sunshine State. Stephens gives us the benefit of his decades of experience as Florida Cooperative Extension Service. He gives basic advice for the novice, all the way to the seasoned Gardner. This is a must have for anyone who has grown a garden up north because Florida is a horse of a different color when it comes to planting seasons, and this books handy charts explains them in full detail with when, what, and where to plant the vegetables we love. It even has charts that tell you the recommended variety of each crop for this area. I picked up this book a couple of years ago on Amazon.com, and I haven’t put it down since. I highly recommend this book to anyone who, like me, is taking the leap into urban gardening in Florida, a must have.

Here my book:
http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz77/SoBe_Musa/IMG_2597.jpg

Jananas Bananas
09-18-2011, 03:53 PM
That's a glowing book review Emily! Makes me want to buy one and I am not even close to Florida weather!!! :ha:

Sherry, I can remember when the gardening magazines were that cheap. Here is my most recent one. I bought it about three weeks ago. I am only about 1/4 in to it, right now.

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20110918051.jpg

~JaNan

Jananas Bananas
11-20-2011, 01:29 PM
This one is a tall book so the picture looks kind of funny - sorry!

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20111120065.jpg

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/JaNan16/20111120067.jpg

J

The Hollyberry Lady
11-21-2011, 09:05 PM
Oh that first one (Magic & Medicine of Plants) looks like a real good one, Janan. What kinds of plants does it discuss?


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Jananas Bananas
11-21-2011, 09:39 PM
I just happen to have it right here! :)

Goose barnacle Tree
Tartarian Lamb Tree
Witch's Berry (Beladonna)
Datura Metel
Mandrake root
Papyrus
Sweet Marjorum
Chrysanthemum
Narcissus
Roses
Garlic
Sunflowers
Verbena

Here's a quote from the book:

Delphi, where a priestess foretold the future in a trance, a state she reputedly attained by breathing the hallucinogenic smoke of smoldering secret herbs.

These are just a few as I turned the pages. I just bought the book and have only read the forward! :ha:

~J

ponchit
11-22-2011, 06:21 AM
This is the first time I have seen the cover of this book...When we started our tissue culture laboratory we used this as our main reference.. it was a photo copy from the university library. we have produce millions of plants just by referring to this book

Jananas Bananas
11-22-2011, 11:07 AM
Which book Ponchit?

ponchit
11-22-2011, 12:46 PM
Which book Ponchit?

plants from test tubes by Lydiane Kyte

This is the first time I have seen the cover of this book...When we started our tissue culture laboratory we used this as our main reference.. it was a photo copy from the university library. we have produce millions of plants just by referring to this book

I have doen Bananas, orchids, philodendrons, gingers, spathiphyllums. bamboos and more but oue main product were orchids, aroids and bananas

saltydad
11-22-2011, 07:34 PM
The picture seems to have wandered off the page, Ponchit...lol!

Never mind, I found it. Sorry.