Hello! My name is Bethany and I grow things insides and outside of my home in Chicago.
In today’s video, I’ll go over my garden book collection. I absolutely love being able to read about gardening in the winter when I can’t actually be in the garden, so that’s when I get most of my reading done.
Let me know if you have any other gardening books you’d recommend!
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In a world filled with so much negativity and hate. Especially here in Chicago. You're cozy channel is appreciated. Thank you for everything you do.
I love looking through garden books especially older ones.
Gardening book addiction? I hear you! There's just something about digging into a good, real paper book that you just can't get from an ebook or Google search. You've chosen some interesting books – I'm getting much more into those that are about the lives of gardeners past instead of simply educational type books. And that is a beautiful book for your journal!
You might like “Fine Gardening” magazine! I love it!
OMG, this is the weirdest coincidence but for over a decade I had 2 pages of watercolor looking paintings with "January" and maybe "April" at the top and birds. I have zero idea where they came from but 2 weeks ago I noticed they were missing and became pretty upset. So I just googled "the country diary of an edwardian lady" and "January" and it's the same freaking art. THANK YOU! I absolutely love her art style and I'm kind of picky
Books and gardening, two of my favorite things!
Sorry I have one more thing to add! I'm clogging up your wall. I recently purchased insect identification type books. Rodale is awesome. It goes into plant fungal diseases too. Another garden book I actually read: "silent spring" by Rachel Carson. It was written in the 60s and it's it's about the dangers of pesticides and herbicides. She sounds like she was an incredible person
All these books sound great… Thanks so much for the suggestions. Ive subscribed to Garden Gate magazine for a few years (a favorite), & highly recommend. Happy reading! 😃
"Right now I'm trying to stop myself from bringing anymore books into the house until I get through all the ones that I already have."
I feel so attacked right now
Muy buen vlog
Looks like many of us are in the same company, lots of garden book lovers. . I’ve had two garden books delivered in the past week. 😁. Love the idea of picking up books at special places, now I’m kicking myself that I didn’t buy any at Monticello or Mount Vernon when we were there in early spring of 2020. I did buy a few packets of seeds though, this was just prior to starting my own seeds. It would be ugly if I went now. I also like the idea of checking out used bookstores.
The Wild Tea book sounds very interesting. . I’m going be picking it up at the library tomorrow, to see if I need to buy it.