- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Rodale Books (2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0875968368
- ISBN-13: 978-0875968360
- Product Dimensions: 28.3 x 22 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #184,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With new century dawning, we are beginning to discover a new way of gardening, a new way of thinking about our plants, and a new way of interacting with the natural world. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden School,
By Mary Smith (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School: A Guide for Creating Your Own Beautiful Easy-Care Garden (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book) (Hardcover)
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!
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This review is from: Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School: A Guide for Creating Your Own Beautiful Easy-Care Garden (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book) (Hardcover)
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.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly organized but good information,
By "martin5064" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School: A Guide for Creating Your Own Beautiful Easy-Care Garden (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book) (Hardcover)
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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