Country Gardens’ Bookshelf Presents New Garden Titles
Better Homes and Gardens’ spring 2015 publication of Country Gardens features a list of eight new books on a variety of gardening topics to inspire you this spring. The book review department of the magazine is called “Gardener’s Bookshelf,” featuring short reviews by Gary Keim with book cover photography by Jacob Fox. Among the selections in this issue was Heart & Soil: The Revolutionary Good of Gardens, which is one that especially caught my eye. Written by Des Kennedy, and issued by Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., Kennedy shares his experience in creating his garden on Denman Island off Victoria, British Columbia.
All of the books looked to offer a wonderful read. You can pick up the spring issue for reviews of the some of the latest new garden titles. I’m hoping to get my hands on Kennedy’s book to see it’s as much fun to read as the title suggests.
This issue of Country Gardens features delightful articles and stories, with some of its pages dedicated to sharing information on plants you might want in your garden, from rhubarb to scented geraniums, or approaches people have taken in their home gardens, with articles on a miniature conifer forest and a cottage-style garden, and a story on a gardener who brought chickens and bee-keeping into her gardening practice as she learned about and introduced biodynamic principles in her own backyard.
I love reading about spring gardens here in the north when we still have snow and some cold temperatures to get through. It’s our annual “Festival du Voyageur” season in my home town, and for now, we celebrate with ice sculptures, Red River fiddling competitions, outdoor fires and purple lights on the snow, and plenty of hot chocolate. It’s still a little while before we will see our first real purple in the snow, when the prairie crocus shows itself in the spring season.
