Best of Green Space: 30 Years of Composted Columns

ISBN-13: 9781893443167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str.

Duane Campbell

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Best of Green Space: 30 Years of Composted Columns, by Duane Campbell,with ink drawings by Betty Mackey. Here is garden technique, duffer to advanced, crossed with curmudgeonlyhumor. This book gives you Duane Campbells famous great cheapologicalgarden advice and many a laugh from January through December. Hiswidely syndicated newspaper columns have been a hit with readers forover 30 years. "This is really going to scare Duane Campbell, but I think were identicaltwins separated at birth. Why? Two reasons: we love the same plantsand we both know humor, not boredom, is what makes readers read. His new book, Best of Green Space: 30 Years of Composted Columns,is a laugh-out-loud gem that deserves a place on your bookshelf. Bythe end of the first page youll understand why "humorous writing"is not necessarily an oxymoron for garden book writers. And by theend of the book youll have a large dose of accurate gardening advicefrom a writer who obviously has great taste in plants."-Art Wolk, Author of Garden Lunacy: A Growing Concern and legendaryplantsman"Duane Campbell has a plaque in his garden that says, "Work is forpeople who dont know how to garden." Well, by that logic, if youread this book you wont have to work-because youll sure know howto garden. Best of Green Space is full of heres-what-I-figured-outadvice, all delivered in an affable but no-nonsense voice from someonewho is clearly a hands-on, dirty-nailed, and green-thumbed gardener.No wonder people have been reading Campbells column for 30 years!"-Pat Stone, Editor, GreenPrints, "The Weeders Digest."