Gardening Book
Posted on Oct 12, 2008 under flower gardening | 7 Comments
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Are you a gardening enthusiast? Have you ever gone to a book store to
find a particular gardening book only to be bombarded by shelf upon
shelf of books on every type of gardening imaginable except the one
that you really want? How about the internet?
You’ve heard that it’s a good place to find information, so you
laboriously turn on your computer and enter whatever keywords you
have into whatever search engine you fancy, and you’re bombarded
by information. Again.
The solution? Simple really when you come to think about it. No, not
buying out the whole bookstore. Not even finding some willing victim
to trawl through those web pages for you, although that does sound
like a good idea. All you have to do is write your own gardening book!
I know, I know, that sort of defeats the purpose of your trying to
find the information you need for yourself. But just think of all
those lost souls, wandering out there in a daze searching with
mounting despair through the same maze of information that you
yourself searched through only days before.
You probably think that you’re unable to write, but hey, if you can
string two sentences together in a manner pleasing to read, and you
can capture the attention of your audience, then you’ve got it made!
You don’t know enough to write a gardening book? I don’t believe that!
If you’re an honest-to-goodness gardening fanatic, then likely as not,
you’ve been gardening for most of your life. You must remember
digging up your mother’s nice neat flower beds to see exactly
âhow it worked’!
So, you’ve got the requisite experience necessary to write more than
one gardening book.
Now what? Well, now it’s all a matter of finding someone to cook your
meals and remind you to eat regularly while you expound to the world
at large, or in this case, your word processor, your views on
gardening. You won’t need to be reminded to water your garden,
because conscientious gardener that you are, that’ll be the last
thing that you forget. Besides, it wouldn’t look too good to let
your garden wither away while you’re writing a gardening book!
And afterwards what do you do? Well, you could always start on a
sequel, because really you didn’t do justice to all that could be
mentioned in a gardening book. Or, you could just sit back in your
easy chair, a mimosa in your hand, the drink, not the flower, and
reap the benefits of your very own gardening book.
As for that little nugget of information that you were so desperately
searching for in the beginning? Well it turns out that you really knew
more than you thought you did, and it too, is now in your gardening
book.
Tomorrow’s article will be on Gardening Clubs – see you then!
All the Best – Ian Fleming
http://gardeners-handbook.info
October 12th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Is there a gardening book that focuses on Arkansas plants? If so, where would I purchase it?
I've searched amazon, B&N, etc., but I haven't found a book that focuses on Arkansas.
Thanks!
October 12th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Contact the Dept of Agriculture in Ark. They can most likely be looked through government .org. They like most state governments may offer free literature for what you are wanting to do. good luck
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October 12th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Try a botanical garden bookstore in Arkansas. Most local gift shops have such specialty books.
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October 12th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Most of the gardening and plant books are written for all zones.When you see what zone you live in then you can decide which plants will work.
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me
October 12th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
This might be more or less or not at all what you are looking for, but it is a start. Good luck, have fun.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=arkansas+wildflowers&fr=ush-ans
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October 12th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I can recommend 2 books for you. Wildflowers of Arkansas by Carl G. Hunter and Petersons field guide Wildflowers of North East & North Central of North American. Hope this helps and grow native!!
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October 12th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Hi,
May I suggest: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/book/
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/
Have Fun!
Hope this helps,
Dave
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