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Title: Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School : A Guide for Creating Your Own Beautiful, Easy-Care Garden (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book) by Ann Lovejoy ISBN: 0-87596-836-8 Publisher: Rodale Books Pub. Date: 07 March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden School
Comment: This book changed my life! In a nutshell, I was focusing on perennials and color; after reading her book, I got into foliage and structure. I used to buy bushes and "hope" they wouldn't get too big, but her philosophy is to buy the right bush in the first place. I guess I just needed someone to tellme that! I have been gardening for about 15 years, and have read many books, but this is the first that actually made me do things differently! I love Ann's passion for gardening. I love this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: clearly written
Comment: I have enjoyed using this book as a good reference for my growing garden. Lovejoy's style is clear, she provides some worksheets in the back of the book, which I found helpful. I also noted her 'voice' in the book is not haughty or stuffy - she is friendly, and clear, which as an avid reader of garden books, I found refreshing. Her ideas are both simple and logical. I love this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Poorly organized but good information
Comment: Since I'm currently resolved to redesign my yard in the interests of increasing its ecological value and decreasing required maintenance, this "organic garden design school" SEEMED like the perfect book for me. And there is a lot of good information in here, about design considerations, planting tips, etc, some of which I've found nowhere else, and which have made the book worthwhile to me. HOWEVER, winnowing that information from the book was not very easy. Though the title suggests this is a textbook, it is really a long series of 1- or 2-page rambles about one or another aspect of the author's experience gardening her own yard (and one other yard). This work is poorly edited and organized, and there is a huge emphasis on just those two examples of garden design. To apply the lessons of this book myself, I needed more than anecdotes from two situations unlike my own. I needed some generally stated design principles, as well as some very specific techniques (e.g. how to build raised beds like the author's). While this information is in there, and some of it is quite illuminating, those gems occur nearly randomly within the 1- or 2-page rambles. If the book was titled something like "Design Thoughts," perhaps I wouldn't be so disappointed, but a "school" and a "guide," with all the clarity those words suggest, this book is not. A workbook section at the end of the book makes up for this by finally providing the reader with a definite guide for action. But it would have been a much more of a "school" and a "guide" if the workbook had been integrated into the chapters, rather than tacked on at the end.
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Title: A Year Along the Garden Path: Beyond the Basics - Gardening for All Seasons by Ann Lovejoy ISBN: 051722089X Publisher: Gramercy Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Naturalistic Gardening: Reflecting the Planting Patterns of Nature by Ann Lovejoy ISBN: 1570611203 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Gardening from Scratch by Ann Lovejoy, Allan Mandell, Jean Emmons ISBN: 0028615891 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company. Pub. Date: 14 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Ann Lovejoy Handbook of Northwest Gardening: Natural-Sustainable-Organic by Ann Lovejoy, Janet Loughrey ISBN: 157061198X Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Fragrance in Bloom: The Scented Garden Throughout the Year by Ann Lovejoy, Lynne Harrison ISBN: 1570613974 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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