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With a patio, porch, or windowsill, gardeners can grow almost anything anywhere using containers. Arrangements in this guide begin simply, with one type of plant in a decorative container. The projects move on to combinations of two plants, then on to more complex pots involving three or more plants—some of the arrangements are even meant to go from container to garden plot. Design principles including color, texture, height, and depth are considered, and ideas for themed containers are included for holidays and other festive occasions. Species range from the tried-and-true garden varieties, such as impatiens and petunias, to newer plants on the market, such as a striking red ornamental millet. The planter plans include detailed photographs, diagrams, and instructions on getting the very best results from container gardening, for lasting natural beauty in any space.
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Rebecca Cole--once an actress/activist and now the owner of the trend-setting Greenwich Village store Potted Gardens--introduces a whole new way to garden. Using any container--from the bed of a toy truck to a bedpan--and any kind of plant--from rose to weed--would-be gardeners can follow Rebecca's guidance and plant a bit of beauty in a corner of their homes or gardens.
Starting at the beginning--what a garden means to urban dwellers and their country cousins and how to stimulate your own imagination--she then helps us hunt for plants at neighborhood nurseries and markets (which she advocates over catalogue shopping); gather containers from dumps, attics, flea markets, and antiques stores; and put it all together in potted gardens for windowsill, desk, and patio. In a chapter on terraces, she turns to the great outdoors, explaining the design and creation of complete gardens made up of containers, artfully arranged to make the most of small spaces. And all along the way she shares her own experiences with breaking all the rules to achieve ebullient flowering displays.
With nearly 200 spectacular photographs, illustrated step-by-step instructions on how to plant in wooden boxes, metal containers, and how to plant bulbs; tips on maintaining a finished potted garden; suggestions on further reading; and a glossary--Potted Gardens is the everyday companion for the new and experienced container gardener alike.
Rebecca Cole is the proprietor of one of New York City's most talked-about shops, Potted Gardens, where she mixes well-loved antiques (and old sinks and watering cans) with flowers and plants. She has made appearances on "Our Home" and "Home Matters" and is a regular guest on "Fox After Breakfast." Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Travel and Leisure, House Beautiful, the New York Times, and Victoria, among others. She lives in New York City.
Richard Felber has been photographing America's gardens for two decades. Among the many magazines that have published his work are House Beautiful, Garden Design, and New York magazine. This is his first book. He lives in Connecticut.
Grab a pot, a wooden box, or a tin can; gather your bulbs and flowers; and read Rebecca Cole's Potted Gardens for a whole new way to look at gardening.
Customer Reviews:
Shabby Chic Container Planting.......2006-04-06
Here are some things this book won't do for you:
For those wanting a how-to book, there are only six pages on transplanting, pruning, watering, pests, etc. and eight pages on planting in boxes and buckets. For those wanting traditional pots and window boxes, this enthuses about offbeat containers. For anyone wanting a photo book to identify plants for containers, this isn't a plant guide.
The author gives her personal experiences junk hunting (for containers), setting up city gardens (on rooftops, in windowboxes), and her relationships with plants. Since I've already read other books for the how-to, the plant selection, and the traditional looking containers, this book was a refreshing change.
If you're drawn to the shabby chic style of decorating, you may already have plenty of containers for this style of potted gardening. Brace yourself, the woman hacks holes in the bottom of a fire bucket.
The glossy photos open your mind to new uses for old things. Think of morning glories climbing an old iron bed as a trellis or a fern growing in a cake tin. Fill a teapot with ivy, a spice tin with rosemary, then perch them on a rustic step ladder near a sunny window.
This is a fun idea book for growing plants in containers.
Not what I was looking for.......2000-05-05
I bought this book when I decided to start a container garden on my deck. I returned it the moment I got it. It just didn't have what I was looking for. Although it has some stuff that is pretty to look at it didn't provide the instruction that I wanted and needed. I wasn't impressed in the least. I found a book that outshines this one in every way. It's David Joyce's Complete Container Garden. A huge book with wonderful ideas and photographs. The best part is that it gives step by step instructions on how to duplicate A LOT of the arrangements. I am very proud of my new deck and it is because of that book. I learned a lot. It has all of the info a beginner would need yet it is interesting enough for someone who has gardened forever. Potted Gardens, by Rebecca Cole can't compare.
I love this book!.......2000-04-29
Rebecca Cole's imagination soars when it comes to potted gardens! I love the way she sees containers in everyday items--including items headed for the trash! Hurray for Rebecca and giving me new vision for my garden.
Too much Rebecca Cole, not enough plants!.......2000-03-18
Lots of little anecdotes about Rebecca Cole, but as an inspiration for container gardening, this book is a bomb. If you like cute, this might be your cup of tea, but if you want to create a garden that's something special, this book won't help. Lots of marigolds and petunias in cast-off containers, but nothing new or noteworthy in the plant department. Try Gardening without a Garden by Gay Search or 50 Recipes for Container Gardens by Richard Bird.
Gardening Made Easy--and Fun!.......1999-05-05
With two semi-black thumbs and not much of a penchant for backbreaking work in the garden, I was hesitant to try my hand once again at container gardening--even if it would be for one last time. But POTTED GARDENS opened up a whole new world of gardening to me! Rebecca Cole finds unique and often humorous containers everywhere she goes--and now so do I! I see containers in old coffee pots, and buckets, and boxes; in wooden shoes and tin watering cans. You simply need to open your eyes to Ms Cole's vision of what container, terrace, patio, and potted gardens were meant to be. I recommend this book to weekend and serious gardeners alike.
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Potted Gardens
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This book provides designs for every season and location--from a spring window box filled with bright yellow daffodils to a summer wicker basket full of wild strawberries.
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- Perfect for the not-so-green thumb!
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Container Plants for Beginners
Joachim Mayer
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Container Plants: For Patios, Balconies, and Window Boxes
ASIN: 0764154133 |
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Approximately 290 color photos highlight this volume, which shows how to create a miniature garden on a balcony, terrace, or other confined space. A major ingredient for success is the assortment of proper plant containers—urns, tubs, and flower boxes of various sizes to accommodate the needs of different plants. Clearly presented advice for novice gardeners places emphasis on beauty—how to achieve a harmony of blossoms and greenery. Readers learn how to plan a container garden by cultivating plants that blossom in successive months in a temperate climate. Such gardens retain their beauty through all but the few coldest months of each year. A plant directory describes approximately 100 varieties with color photos, thumbnail advice on cultivation, and months of the year when each plant blooms. Plants detailed here include roses and rhododendrons, fuchsia and oleander, dahlias and petunias, bougainvillea, and dozens more flowering varieties. Also in the directory are fruit trees that can be raised in tubs, ferns and shrubs for rich, green backgrounds, and even vegetables that can be cultivated successfully in containers. Each plant profile is supplemented with a set of pictograms that give information at a glance on watering, fertilizing, needed sunlight, and other details. Poisonous plants that are potentially dangerous to pets and kids are also labeled. Plants are listed by their popular names, followed by botanical designations. Full-color photos on every page.
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Perfect for the not-so-green thumb!.......2003-06-13
I checked this out at the local library and liked it so well that now I'm ordering my own copy from Amazon. I had been wanting to spruce up my yard with some pretty plants, but the trouble is, I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to the how-to's of gardening. This book gives the basics for the beginner, plus it gives specific how-to's for tons of flowers, shrubs, herbs, ferns -- just about anything you can grow in containers. And it has full-color pictures of them all. I can't recommend this highly enough for novice gardeners interested in container gardening.
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The Potted Garden: New Plants and New Approaches for Container Gardens
Scott Appell
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New techniques, new plants, and new products--celebrate the breakthroughs changing the face of container gardening. From cutting-edge soil mixes to lightweight, winter-resistant, and decorative pots, the seemingly infinite innovations in the field add up to low maintenance and high quality. See how much more beautiful your container garden can be with these breathtaking design concepts, numerous recommendations for outstanding flowers and greenery, and inspired combinations. Every visually amazing page bursts with creative and stylish ideas for herb, vegetable, hanging, water, alpine, and desert gardens. Build your own planter or window box, select antique or collectible containers, and come to terms with your climate by choosing hardy or drought-tolerant plants and implementing water survival techniques. Whether you're thinking of a single urn for a small apartment or an entire range of plantings, the only thing you won't be able to "contain" is your imagination!
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For hobbyists only.......2003-07-05
My "garden" is a balcony, 11 floors up, and I figured that a container gardening guide from Brooklyn would be just the thing for a city gardener like me. Alas, no. The book mainly features chapters by enhusiasts about their particular kicks: alpine gardening, classic (i.e., Greek-inspired) containers, etc. Yes, there's a final chapter with practical gardening advice about soil and plant care, but it's pretty generic. Unless you share the authors' specific passions, buy another guide.
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Bonsai Dwarf Potted Tree Video
Manufacturer: Storey Books
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- --Wonderful ideas for potted gardens--
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Container Gardens: Simple Steps to Beautiful Potted Plants (How-to Gardening)
Rosemary McCreary
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ASIN: 0737006242 |
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Container-grown plants offer gardeners dozens of opportunities to add color to their yards, porches, decks, and balconies, no matter how small the space. These 57 projects offer easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for designing, planting, and caring for a variety of plants, from colorful annuals, perennials, and bulbs, to edible herbs and vegetables-and even shrubs and trees.
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--Wonderful ideas for potted gardens--.......2003-07-02
CONTAINER GARDENS is a great source of information for planting in every type of outside container that you can imagine.
Instructions are given for the various plantings and the photographs make everything very easy to follow. The containers include, strawberry jars, wire baskets, wooden boxes, traditional clay pots and hypertufa troughs. There are suggestions given to which plants do best in the various containers and advice on potting soil, fertilizing and pruning.
This is a very concise guide to potted gardens and the photographs really make you want to duplicate the plantings yourself.
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This is a story about home . . .
At a time when much of America is yearning to recapture the spirit and feelings of a more innocent era, comes this exceptional new book from one of our most beloved actresses: a story of one woman's journey to reconnect with the landscape of her childhood.
Though best known today as the star of the television series Once & Again and Sisters, Sela Ward considers herself first and foremost a small-town girl. The eldest of four children, she was raised by a father who helped her believe in herself, and by a mother who taught her a sense of the importance of virtues like self-respect, grace, and sacrifice. In her hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, within a tightly-knit community of neighbors and kin, Sela learned ways that would remain with her throughout life -- humble virtues that were "forged in the hearth of a loving home."
After graduating from the University of Alabama, Sela left the South in search of the excitement of cities like New York and Los Angeles, and the creative rewards of an acting career. But as she started her own family, she found herself pining for the comforts of her small-town childhood -- and searching for a way to balance her children's West Coast upbringing with a taste of a more natural way of life. She and her husband built a second home on a farm there, where she and her family could retreat several times each year, and became involved in several projects designed to restore the vitality of the hometown she remembered so fondly. Even as Sela was reconnecting with the rhythms of home, though, her world was rocked by a crisis the family had long anticipated but never quite prepared for -- the death of her mother. As her family gathered around her mama's bedside, Sela's simple journey home became something far deeper: a turning point in her own life, as she pondered her mother's complicated legacy, and came to terms with just what it was she herself was searching for.
Filled with warmth, storytelling, and laughter, Homesick is a book to treasure: an exploration of the lessons we carry away with us from childhood, and a celebration of the bittersweet legacy of home.
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This is a story about home. At a time when much of America is yearning to recapture the spirit and feelings of a more innocent era, comes this exceptional new book from one of our most beloved actresses: a story of one woman's journey to reconnect with the landscape of her childhood. Though best known today as the star of the television series Once
Customer Reviews:
Boring Read.......2006-08-18
At least the book was accurately titled. It was definitely more memoir than autobiography. I always hate to give bad reviews to books that a person seems to have put so much effort into, but this was just boring. I am a big fan of biographies and this one falls short. Being a proper southern lady, Sela does not go into detail about what seems to have been an interesting life. Instead she spends lots of time talking about her thoughts and feelings. It all seemed forced.
She speaks in detail about how great life is in Mississippi, yet she raises her kids in LA, of all places. She seems to be a good mother, but yet her children have spent hours in the care of nannies as she goes to work in the wee hours of the morning and returns long after they are put to bed.
Quite the confusing and contrary mishmash, but I understand her need for putting something down on paper. Losing a mother does that to a person. Perhaps she should have just kept it for herself, family and friends. They would not have found it boring I'm sure.
great book.......2004-05-10
homesick is an awsome book. her life is interesting to read about!!!buy it!!!!its the best
Sela Ward Finds Her Way Back Home.......2004-01-08
Go down south with Mississippi born actress Sela Ward. Homesick is a refreshing look at the everyday life of a young girl as she moves from small town life to young adulthood in New York and then settles in Hollywood.
Sela shares the story of her family stating, "The Wards have always walked a fine line between conviction and orneriness..." She admires her father and her mother. She talks much of the way she grew up as a southern girl, the south's traditions and the legacies, girl talk sessions, cliques, church, the family restaurant, charm school and even hanging at the local Quik Stop. It's rather refreshing that the book focuses on the positives of life.
Sela speaks of her own life, though not with Hollywood spectacles on. She shares her climb to success but does not allow it to take over the entire telling of her story. Her claim to fame is only part of her. Her family, her history, her place of birth are so much more.
Homesick also touches on issues such as racism in the South, the tragedy of September 11, overindulged children and drugs. The book also details Sela's mother's death and the hardship on the family.
The book is generously sprinkled with photographs which tell a story themselves. You'll see the young Sela, the model, the actress, but mostly you'll see the real Sela Ward, the one who stood at her mother's knee and listened to the stories of her family.
A Lady With Inbred Southern Charm.......2003-08-20
The memoir of a beautiful woman who went to NY City and then
Hollywood but longed to go home again.
A person can never really go home again, as another Southerner,
Thomas Wolfe wrote, but Sela Ward tried very hard to duplicate
her upbringing,when she married and had two chidren.
This is a book of a woman who developed in Meridian,Miss-
issippi;during the 1960's and 1970's.Her family isn't perfect
but they are good people.
A younger Sela neede more in her life to express her ambitions so she moved away.What she also found was she also needed
stability and family.
Unable to have a realistic family life in Hollywood-she
and her husband Howard Sherman set about building a new family home back in Meridan, Mississippi.Here they are surrounded by Sela's close relatives and their children are
able to lead a more rustic life.As often as possible they
reside in comfort and live here.
This is unlike any Hollywood story.People respect each
other and help one another.
It is refreshing to read about a Hollywood star, who is just like other ordinary folks.Her lovely Southern charm comes
through in the telling of her Family's customs.
In my own thoughts I felt..........2003-08-04
This book is truely amazing. I cannot express all of my feelings towards it. To flip through the pages of Homesick and read of all of Sela's discoveries, embarkments, and life alterments was none other than exciting. I had known "of" Sela from "Once and Again" and from some of her movies but this book showed me more. It is probably hard to really describe one's life in a book, including describing one's own life, but Sela tackled the task and completed it. It's a book that no one, who is a fan of Sela, could skip reading, let alone put down for a second, while reading. I never stopped. True essence at heart.
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With captivating blue eyes and dark hair, Jenny Lauren looked as though she'd stepped out of one of the ads for which her uncle, Ralph Lauren, is famous. It was not long, however, before she found herself in a world where it was easy to see herself as less than perfect. She was ten years old when she first starved herself. After many years of bingeing, purging, and compulsively exercising, her body fell apart. Her colon herniated and she was forced to undergo surgery. At twenty-four, living in chronic pain, she wrote Homesick as a cautionary tale that she hoped would touch many.
This unflinching account details her struggle with anorexia and bulimia, yet is also a much larger story that focuses on universal issues: the intricacies of family ties, the pressures of society, the search for selfhood, and ultimately the power of hope. With flashes of wit and a knowing beyond its young writer's years, Homesick is a riveting and emotionally complex story of pain and hard-won recovery that no reader will forget.
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This startlingly plainspoken and unflinching first-person account by the niece of fashion icon Ralph Lauren details a wrenching struggle with anorexia and bulimia -- and speaks powerfully to a widespread failure by the medical community to understand eating disorders.
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Knew her once.......2007-07-22
I am sorry to see all the negative reviews here that attack the author and her family. The author's writing is honest, brash, and brave. I would certainly give this book to any teen or pre-teen girl in the hopes of ramming home the damage that can be caused by not taking care of one's body and giving it enough fuel.
Anorexia/Bulimia are a huge social issue for women and in no way should be taken lightly. Actresses and models afflicted with these illnesses prove that no amount of money, fame, catering to one's ego, etc. can fill whatever hole lurks inside a persons soul. There have been many studies showing an acute mental glitch may be the cause of such disorders, much like depression. No one would ever tell a severely depressed person to 'stop whining' and to 'just get over it', or call them self-pitying.
It is one thing to not enjoy a book, you are certainly entitled, but to diminish the author's illness, family, lifestyle etc. is just uncouth.
There have been a few reviews here that claim to be written by friends of the author or those who have known and spent time with her and I would like to add something to the mix.
I do not know the author personally any longer but did go to grade school with her for a short while. I remember her as a happy, friendly, kind, and of course beautiful young girl. Still, I don't remember her for her beauty, I remember her for being fun, creative, honest, and funny.
I am sorry to hear about her struggles as an adult, and her harrowing medical experiences. I am most sorry to see that people feel that if you are born into a wealthy family, and are good looking, then any ill that befalls you is your own fault and somehow you are creating it.
While it is possible that some of the causes of the author's ailments were emotional, and still to this day not recognized, please keep in mind that recovery, from anything, does not happen overnight. Aren't we all learning to recover from something or a series of something's, our entire lives? (Problematic childhoods, devastating break ups, failures, betrayals, and the like)
As for her parents 'doling out' cash to fund her medical treatment, I certainly hope any parent would take care of their child of any age that was going through such a horrendous experience. Parents are tied by their blood and love to their children. When a child suffers, his mother suffers ten times as much for her child.
The best I can say about the work to those undecided is to read the ecerpts available and judge for yourself.
An epic quest without an ending.......2006-07-23
I have never read anything where the author is so frustratingly self-involved and yet so amazingly lacking in self-awareness. The whole book is a poorly written festival of whining.
The writer spends the book searching for a cure to one ailment after another--all using her parent's money. Anytime they don't automatically pony up with the money she whines until they give in (bad enabling parents, bad, bad!).
I was amazed that anyone could go through the process of writing such a book and not start to gain some sort of self-awareness. For example: Jenny complains that she needs an operation. The doctor does not want to do it. Jennie demands it. After having the operation she's told by some lay person that the operation was a bad idea. Jenny then rails at the doctor for butchering her. Has she forgotten that she was the one that demanded it against medical advice?
The saga of how she took more pain medication than she was supposed to and then got painfully constipated is another example. (Jenny, if you're reading, don't take more pain medication than you're prescribed, and if you do, accept the consequences, don't blame it on others!)
Then we get to hear how hard she works at getting better by spending weeks and weeks at a spa (yet again spending her parents money while contributing nothing to society--unless you want to argue for the Bush theory of "trickle down economics").
The final insane leg of the journey is a trip to South America (yet again paid for by money wheedled from her parents) to visit a healing guru. As much time or more is spent talking about what kind of souvenirs she bought as anything about her visit with the guru (who charges a fee for bottled holy water in the gift shop. Yes the healing guru has a gift shop!) Money wisely spent.
The whole book ends with Jenny saying she has not found any significant resolution to her quest but that she will continue to do basically the same thing she's done throughout the book over and over again until she finds what she's looking for!
The most unfortunate thing about all of this is that this book actually got published and that Ms. Lauren got paid an advance more than twice what most Americans make in a year!
This book has no insight whatsoever. Anybody who thinks that this could be a good book for others with eating disorders should know that it will leave the reader frustrated and with the sense that there is little hope for a cure even with more resources than 99% of the population. If anything, this book is a badly written portrait of self-pitying self-centeredness enabled by privledge.
Ultimately, I feel for Ms. Lauren. She is obviously dealing with a lot of pain. I just don't think that the book she wrote is of enough value to share with the world. If anything, it's probably done Ms. Lauren more harm than good because her whining must feel more legitimate now that it's in print. Maybe the final blame should go to the editor who believed that the Lauren name would sell enough books to turn a profit no matter how unworthy the content.
Read it.......2006-05-11
This memoir is amazing so far. Vivid and clever writing, Jenny Lauren is a unique person and it is so sad how her eating disorder brings her down in those adolescent years.. but it is enlightening to read how she recovered from it.
She does not skip the details, she includes everything in her account, the gruesome and the triumphant.
Buy it.
Interesting Story.......2006-03-28
I agree that this book is somewhat annoying in that the author is very indulged. She does acknowledge this. I found her frank discussion of the repulsive side effects of her eating disorder to be illuminating. No one could claim that this book glamorized eating disorders. I found her discussion of living with chronic pain, constipation and lethargy to also be well-written and sad. I was shocked however, that she wrote about seeing the best specialists her parent's considerable money could buy only to reject them and to find healing with a 'psychic surgeon'. What is she thinking? Sure, her doctors were not helpful, but did she really believe that someone who claims to diagnose her after looking at her for two seconds really 'saved her life'? She also did not give her doctors a chance, in that every two pages she was writing about how she saw a new doctor and was trying out his recommendations. While John of God may not charge for his 'services', it really it obvious that he makes alot of money from the herbs he sells,and from the accomodations that people have to stay in to see him. Jenny Lauren actually offers her services as a lecturer on her website. What she has to say or offer is not very clear.
It isn't as bad as you all make it out to be, but it isn't the best either........2006-02-12
Although Jenny Lauren does annoyingly whine on and on about her health problems, I couldn't put this book down. I can't relate to her bulimia or anorexia, I can relate to her image issues. I agree with many customer reviews here that say "get over it already". But there is something to be taken away from her book.
If you're thinking about it, I would definitely buy a used copy, just in case you don't like it, then you aren't out quite as much.
I think that it takes a certain person to realize that it does take something to find yourself, even if you are a spoiled rich kid who gets all the awesome free clothes you could ever want. Or maybe, in spite of that. It's worth reading during a weekend, or ... maybe on a flight.
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Homesick for the Hills
Alyce Faye Bragg
Manufacturer: Mountain State Press, c2000
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This Holler Is My Home
ASIN: 0941092410 |
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This collection of columns are woven with a nostaligic note of how life used to be in the hills of Clay County, West Virginia and underlines the longing of those who have left the country life to come back home again. It describes accurately the land, its people, and their country ways.
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Wild, Wonderful West Virginia.......2001-12-07
A wonderful collection of nostalgic essays on the joys and sorrows of life in the hills. Based in a love for life and a deep faith, this second collection of Ms. Bragg's heartwarming writings will delight any reader seeking a reason to be thankful and hopeful.
It's Country.......2000-08-03
Alyce Faye Bragg's first collection of stories has already been reprinted and at least part of the credit goes to her love affair with the hills. These are the hills of West Virginia and from the small, very small town of Ovapa in sparsely populated Clay County. In her new book, Alyce Faye will tell you about drinking clear Appalachian mountain spring water, an addictive experience. If you have ever been exposed to farm living, you will be reached by her writing of the old vacant farm, "a sad sight." Alyce Faye says we can all go `back home' since she had already done this. She also recalls early holiday memories and her mother's Christian examples. Alyce Faye takes you there; her descriptions are powerful and enjoyable. But there are many things about rural life you may not already know: a shucking peg, about duck sitting, a pennyroyal, leather britches (not clothing), the horse that should have gone to jail and all about green apples and yellow jackets (ouch!). She writes about the real Mountaineer and a real Mountain woman. It may be humorous or sometimes sad, but it is never dull. A gracious real mountain woman herself, Alyce Faye Bragg brings real insight to her stories about country life.
Excellent Book.......2000-06-01
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- Courtyard Gardens of Kyoto's Merchant Houses
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- The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
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- The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry
- Surviving an IRS Tax Audit
Pots in the Garden: Expert Design and Planting
Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants
Foliage
Gardens to Go: Creating and Designing a Container Garden
Pests & Diseases of Herbaceous Perennials: The Biological Approach
