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- Spiral-bound: 136 pages ; Dimensions
(in inches): 1.07 x 11.37 x 9.21
- Publisher: HarperCollins; ISBN:
0060193875; Spiral edition (May 1999)
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Book
Description
The Notebook
A seasonal scrapbook of gardening methods,
recipes and tabletop designs.
Hands-on workbook format with pockets for
clippings and graph paper for plans.
Tips on holiday festivities and decorating
ideas with pages for notes.
Full-color instructions to creat magnificent
bouquets from the summer garden.
Lists of favorite perennials and annuals for
grow-your-own arrangments.
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Good intentions tend to bloom and fade like a
perennial: next year, you'll dig up the border by the front walk and
install those delphiniums you've always wanted; next year, you'll put up
those abundant tomatoes so you can savor them during the depths of
winter.
To realize those good
intentions, try organizing them with fashion designer and author Carolyne
Roehm's Summer Notebook. Or, if your creative fields lie fallow
once in a while (and whose don't?), borrow the seed of an idea from Roehm,
who broadcasts her favorites for everyone's benefit.
This is a notebook (complete with grid paper for planning, lined
pages for notes, and pouches for clippings), garden-design and flower
color-combination guide, garden journal, recipe book--in essence, it's an
idea book, a place to record your ideas and learn from Roehm's.
The grounds of her Connecticut home, Weatherstone, serve as the
canvas for her botanical muse. In the course of showing off her gardening
victories, as well as admitting to her failures, we get chapters on
Roehm's potager, inspired by Louis XIV's geometrically laid-out kitchen
garden at Versailles; her quest for the perfect perennial border; the
extreme state of her hydrangea envy and rose obsession; details of a
Fourth of July celebration and a summer wedding held at Weatherstone; odes
to peaches, corn, and tomatoes; and an "end paper" on the dread
Japanese beetle.
All this, along with abundant color photos, recipes,
floral-arrangement tips, and helpful hints like how to make your own
floral preservative, make this inaugural installment in the Notebook
series (Fall is next, of course) a unique addition to any avid gardener's
library. --Stefanie Durbin |
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