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February 2024 MBR The Gardening Shelf
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Midwest Book Review
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The Bricks 'n Blooms Guide to a Beautiful & Easy-Care Flower Garden
Stacy Ling
Ten Peaks Press
c/o Harvest House Publishers
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
9780736988483, $26.99, PB, 224pp
https://www.amazon.com/Bricks-Blooms-Beautiful-Easy-Care-Flower/dp/0736988483
Synopsis: As household gardeners, most of us have never met a plant we couldn't kill. That's why maintaining a flourishing flower garden can seem intimidating and/or time-consuming. Especially when we have hoed, planted, and weeded around in the dirt with nothing to show for it except a sunburn and a sore back?
That's why "The Bricks 'n Blooms Guide to a Beautiful and Easy-Care Flower Garden" by Stacy Ling offers the ordinary, non-specialist, ever hopeful, flower loving home gardener everything needed to be known in order to confidently grow beautiful flowers.
This thoroughly 'user friendly' and beautifully illustrated DIY flower gardening guide covers: Gardening basics to set you up for success; Great garden design ideas with ready-made plans for you to follow; Easy-care instructions for a wide variety of flowers and flowering shrubs; Helpful how-tos for container and cut flower gardening. Of special note is the profusion of graphs, charts, and lists to help you to stay organized and successful in raising your flower garden.
Critique: An absolutely ideal, step-by-step inspiringly illuminated DIY how-to guide will give both the novice as well as the experienced gardener the knowledge and confidence needed to grow beautiful flowers season after season, year after year. While especially and specifically recommended for personal, professional, and community library Gardening/Horticulture collections, it should be noted that "The Bricks 'n Blooms Guide to a Beautiful and Easy-Care Flower Garden" is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $20.49).
Editorial Note: Stacy Ling (https://stacyling.com) is a master gardener, a blogger, and the creator of the Bricks 'n Blooms lifestyle brand. Stacy's successful partnerships with other notable brands include Proven Winners, Garden Design, and Gardeners Supply. She has also been featured in Wine Enthusiast magazine and on an episode of the popular HGTV show House Hunters. Stacy and her husband, Christopher, live in an 1850s farmhouse with their three daughters.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups, listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit line when doing so.
The Midwest Book Review publishes the monthly book review magazines "California Bookwatch", "Internet Bookwatch", "Children's Bookwatch", "MBR Bookwatch", "Reviewer's Bookwatch", and "Small Press Bookwatch". All are available for free on the Midwest Book Review website at www (dot) midwestbookreview (dot) com
Anyone wanting to submit books for review consideration can send them to:
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive
Oregon, WI 53575-1129
To submit reviews of any fiction or non-fiction books, email them to Frugalmuse (at) aol (dot) com (Be sure to include the book title, author, publisher, publisher address, publisher website/phone number, 13-digit ISBN number, and list price).
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
The Bricks 'n Blooms Guide to a Beautiful & Easy-Care Flower Garden
Stacy Ling
Ten Peaks Press
c/o Harvest House Publishers
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
9780736988483, $26.99, PB, 224pp
https://www.amazon.com/Bricks-Blooms-Beautiful-Easy-Care-Flower/dp/0736988483
Synopsis: As household gardeners, most of us have never met a plant we couldn't kill. That's why maintaining a flourishing flower garden can seem intimidating and/or time-consuming. Especially when we have hoed, planted, and weeded around in the dirt with nothing to show for it except a sunburn and a sore back?
That's why "The Bricks 'n Blooms Guide to a Beautiful and Easy-Care Flower Garden" by Stacy Ling offers the ordinary, non-specialist, ever hopeful, flower loving home gardener everything needed to be known in order to confidently grow beautiful flowers.
This thoroughly 'user friendly' and beautifully illustrated DIY flower gardening guide covers: Gardening basics to set you up for success; Great garden design ideas with ready-made plans for you to follow; Easy-care instructions for a wide variety of flowers and flowering shrubs; Helpful how-tos for container and cut flower gardening. Of special note is the profusion of graphs, charts, and lists to help you to stay organized and successful in raising your flower garden.
Critique: An absolutely ideal, step-by-step inspiringly illuminated DIY how-to guide will give both the novice as well as the experienced gardener the knowledge and confidence needed to grow beautiful flowers season after season, year after year. While especially and specifically recommended for personal, professional, and community library Gardening/Horticulture collections, it should be noted that "The Bricks 'n Blooms Guide to a Beautiful and Easy-Care Flower Garden" is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $20.49).
Editorial Note: Stacy Ling (https://stacyling.com) is a master gardener, a blogger, and the creator of the Bricks 'n Blooms lifestyle brand. Stacy's successful partnerships with other notable brands include Proven Winners, Garden Design, and Gardeners Supply. She has also been featured in Wine Enthusiast magazine and on an episode of the popular HGTV show House Hunters. Stacy and her husband, Christopher, live in an 1850s farmhouse with their three daughters.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups, listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit line when doing so.
The Midwest Book Review publishes the monthly book review magazines "California Bookwatch", "Internet Bookwatch", "Children's Bookwatch", "MBR Bookwatch", "Reviewer's Bookwatch", and "Small Press Bookwatch". All are available for free on the Midwest Book Review website at www (dot) midwestbookreview (dot) com
Anyone wanting to submit books for review consideration can send them to:
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive
Oregon, WI 53575-1129
To submit reviews of any fiction or non-fiction books, email them to Frugalmuse (at) aol (dot) com (Be sure to include the book title, author, publisher, publisher address, publisher website/phone number, 13-digit ISBN number, and list price).
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
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