The Little Green Island with a Little Red House A Book of Colors & Critters
2005 National Oudoor Book Award Children's Book Category
Hardcover, $9.95 retail 32 pages, color illustrations Down East Books ISBN: 0892726733
Garden Writers Association 2005 Bronze Award of Achievement Writing-Book Category Country Living GARDENER A Blessing of Toads A Gardener's Guide to Living witrh Nature Hearst Books A Divison of Sterling Publishing
Hardcover, $14.95 retail 304 pages, color illustrations ISBN: 1588163792
From the Publisher Since the very first issue of Country Living Gardener, writer, artist, and naturalist Sharon Lovejoy has produced the award-winning "Heart's Ease" column for the magazine. Through this collection of delightful essays and beautiful illustrations, she shares with her readers the boundless joys of a country garden. Lovejoy has chosen to focus on animal life in the garden, including hummingbirds, caterpillars, and dragonflies, but her informative and witty prose also covers traditional plant care. The very titles of her sketches convey pleasure in the vibrant country landscape and the life that teems within it: "The Bumble Bee Rumba," "Faeries in the Fuschias (sphinx moths)," "Holiday Feasts for the Birds and the Beasts," and "Conversations with Sunflowers." This compilation truly is--to borrow another of her titles--"Something to Crow About."
A Day in the Garden an illustrated blank journal * 180 color pages * Wire binding * Sturdy clear plastic pocket * 6 x 7 3/4 inche * $13.95
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Garden Writers Association 2004 Garden Globe Award of Achievement Illustration-Book Category
Order the Paperback: $13.95 Full-color illustrations throughout Paperback with flaps, 224 pages, 6" x 7" Workman Publishing
Ever since she was old enough to help her grandmother in the garden, Sharon Lovejoy has spent her life working with plants-and along the way, through '`trowel and error," she's accumulated hundreds and hundreds of remedies, tips, short-cuts, and cure-alls. Now Ms. Lovejoy-author of Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots and the award-winning Sunflower Houses-does for the garden what Heloise or the Queen of Clean does for the household. TROWEL & ERROR collects all of her homespun garden advice into an inviting, environmentally friendly, whimsically illustrated yet dead-on helpful book that will benefit every gardener, beginner or experienced. Cure plant viruses with spoiled milk. Steep a natural and effective insecticide out of fresh basil. Place flat stones under squash or melons to hasten ripening. Recycle an old apple corer as the perfect dibber for muscari and other small bulbs. Start rosemary cuttings in a green glass bottle. Sprinkle baby powder over seedlings to discourage rabbits. Crush a garlic clove and apply it to your skin as an insect repellent. From urging the reader to take an occasional shower with the houseplants to giving all-natural gardenside first aid, TROWEL & ERROR is a direct line to the kind of practical wisdom that comes only after a lifetime of experience. The book is indexed by problem, plant, pest, and solution, and includes a list of tools and common household items-borax, cornmeal, vinegar-that completes the gardener's arsenal."Of all the new books," Robert Smaus, Los Angeles Times, recommends, "Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots by Sharon Lovejoy is my personal favorite-for the name alone. If you have children, get this book; if your kids and in college, get it anyway and save it for the grandchildren. If you haven't any kids, borrow some-the dozen theme gardens at the heart of this book beg to be tried."
ROOTS, SHOOTS, BUCKETS &BOOTS Gardening Together with Children WORKMAN PUBLISHING
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HOLLYHOCK DAYS Garden Adventures for the Young at Heart
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The following two booklets are available exclusively from Sharon. Contact her at sharon@sharonlovejoy.com for details. Faeries in My Garden, a whimsical booklet $5.95 24 page booklet Rosemary, Sweet Rosemary, recipes $5.95 28 page booklet Order a personally inscribed book from Sharon Back to Sharon Lovejoy's Front Page Sharon Lovejoy's Books and Recommended Reading Books with Contributions by Sharon Lovejoy | Books Featuring Sharon Lovejoy's Home and Gardens | Books Recommended by Sharon Lovejoy