March 2024
January/ February 2024
Well Ladies and Gentlemen, the growing season is not far away and if your mailbox is anything like mine the catalogues are coming in daily... both seeds and starter plants. I have been looking and reading and although I'm not very good with seeds, I do order plants and have been pleased and successful with the process.
At the end of last year, I realized that my herb bench was too shallow, so this year I plan to get creative with my pots and plastic containers and cut out the bottoms and use varying heights of containers which will give the plants more space for root growth in the herb bench.....will let you know how it works .......Good luck and happy planning!
At the end of last year, I realized that my herb bench was too shallow, so this year I plan to get creative with my pots and plastic containers and cut out the bottoms and use varying heights of containers which will give the plants more space for root growth in the herb bench.....will let you know how it works .......Good luck and happy planning!
December 2023
Well ladies...we're coming to the end of the year ...let us look forward to a better New Year with more peace in the world! I went to Barnes & Noble looking for some interesting magazines...there were so many to choose from upcoming holiday season (Yes! that's a Christmas tree using flower frogs!) I even bought one called 'Wildflower' Shades of Autumn. There were too many to suggest... But the photos of my favorites are included. May you have a safe & blessed holiday season. See you in 2024!
November 2023
Well, it's time to get ready for the holiday season... the library has a couple of new books ... Things to ponder for your next year's garden
100 plants to feed the birds Laura Erickson 598.072 (new books)
Eat your flowers a cookbook by Gloria Stern 641.659 (new books)
The ultimate flower gardeners guide by Jenny Carey 635.9676 (new books)
100 plants to feed the birds Laura Erickson 598.072 (new books)
Eat your flowers a cookbook by Gloria Stern 641.659 (new books)
The ultimate flower gardeners guide by Jenny Carey 635.9676 (new books)
October 2023
Well, October is here, and the weather is changing and soon the leaves should be and it will be time to put our gardens to rest and enjoy the last of the season. It’s coming to the end of the gardening season, and we get to enjoy the fruits of our labor for a little while longer.
Victoria and Southern Lady are two magazines I have enjoyed reading and have found wonderful recipes and floral designs. Entertain and Celebrate is a new magazine that also has fabulous designs and decorating that you might like.
September 2023
September has arrived and with it comes the last hurray for our gardens. We will be checking our gardens what was good and what we might like to add and maybe you'd like to add some plants to make your own Tussey Mussey for next year.... Both the library and the book stores have great books to peruse and magazines for your fall gardens and how to put your beds to rest for the winter. Visit farm stands out east for extra enjoyment and fall 🍂 plantings.
June 2023
If you are worried about the environment and where us humans are taking it, here is a great read to get you started in helping preserve the planet and wild life for the future of humanity! Garden Clubs across America have been discussing the topic for many years, especially our very own Karen Fuller! Plant more native plants!
As we are all well aware, wildlife population has been declining. The author, Dr. Doug W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, addresses this exact topic. In his book, Tallamy, from the University of Delaware, takes the initiative with an important call to action to urge private gardeners to turn their home gardens into a natives habitat. The book will allow you to get great suggestions to allow you to walk away with great and specific suggestions you can incorporate into your own yard!
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May 2023
April 2023
Spring has sprung!!
I was at a meeting in the East Northport Library and wandered in the HorticultureSection (635.903) and the Floral Section (745.92) and was delighted to find some new books that were not available at the Northport Library (our library card is accepted at both libraries). I also found they have a lovely Cafe and some magazines that I have not seen in the Northport Library. The following selections is only a sample of what was available......get a cup of coffee and a few books and/or magazines and enjoy a lovely time in the East Northport Library!
The following books & magazines are a sample of what I found:
"Flowers for the Home" by Malcolm Hillier 745.922 HIL
Imaginative & easy ways to arrange them
"Floral Arranging": by Eileen W. Johnson 745.92 JOH
Learning from the Master Florists at Flower School New York
"Crops in Pots" Reader's Digest by Bob Purnell 635.986 PUR
How to plan, plant, & grow vegetables, fruits & herbs in easy-care containers
Magazines: Family handyman - unusual containers & hydroponic gardening Apr/May 2023
Fine Gardening ...8 best Herbs to grow and unique perennials Apr/May 2023
It's worth the trip!!!
I was at a meeting in the East Northport Library and wandered in the HorticultureSection (635.903) and the Floral Section (745.92) and was delighted to find some new books that were not available at the Northport Library (our library card is accepted at both libraries). I also found they have a lovely Cafe and some magazines that I have not seen in the Northport Library. The following selections is only a sample of what was available......get a cup of coffee and a few books and/or magazines and enjoy a lovely time in the East Northport Library!
The following books & magazines are a sample of what I found:
"Flowers for the Home" by Malcolm Hillier 745.922 HIL
Imaginative & easy ways to arrange them
"Floral Arranging": by Eileen W. Johnson 745.92 JOH
Learning from the Master Florists at Flower School New York
"Crops in Pots" Reader's Digest by Bob Purnell 635.986 PUR
How to plan, plant, & grow vegetables, fruits & herbs in easy-care containers
Magazines: Family handyman - unusual containers & hydroponic gardening Apr/May 2023
Fine Gardening ...8 best Herbs to grow and unique perennials Apr/May 2023
It's worth the trip!!!
March 2023
Welcome Back! When looking for interesting items for my first report of 2023, I found so much information on house plants and succulents . Barnes & Noble has a wonderful book "Container Succulents: Creative ideas for beginners". The ideas work inside your home or summer containers. The "houseplants" issue from Better Homes & Gardens was also very informative on houseplants along with many other gardening magazines.
The Northport Library has gotten all new issues of:
Horticulture for Jan/Feb 2023
Fine Gardening April 2023
Garden Gate Jan/Feb 2023
Also in the New Book Section 635.965 NEW "What is my plant telling Me" by Emily H. Hinsdale is certainly worth checking out. with a cup of tea or coffee from their Cafe.
The Northport Library has gotten all new issues of:
Horticulture for Jan/Feb 2023
Fine Gardening April 2023
Garden Gate Jan/Feb 2023
Also in the New Book Section 635.965 NEW "What is my plant telling Me" by Emily H. Hinsdale is certainly worth checking out. with a cup of tea or coffee from their Cafe.
February 2023
(This Month By Livia Bartlau)
What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?): A Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic
Remedies (What’s Wrong Series). Available in Paperback, by David Deardorff (Author), Kathryn
Wadsworth (Author)
What's Wrong With My Plant? provides an easy system for visually diagnosing any garden
plant problem and matching it to the right cure. By offering organic solutions for over 400
plant maladies, this book is the go-to source whenever your plants are a little under the
weather. This innovative and easy-to-use guide presents easy-to-follow, illustrated flow charts
to accurately diagnose the problem. It also includers 100% organic solutions and photographs
and drawings of stressed, damaged, and diseased plants to help with accurate comparison.
Remedies (What’s Wrong Series). Available in Paperback, by David Deardorff (Author), Kathryn
Wadsworth (Author)
What's Wrong With My Plant? provides an easy system for visually diagnosing any garden
plant problem and matching it to the right cure. By offering organic solutions for over 400
plant maladies, this book is the go-to source whenever your plants are a little under the
weather. This innovative and easy-to-use guide presents easy-to-follow, illustrated flow charts
to accurately diagnose the problem. It also includers 100% organic solutions and photographs
and drawings of stressed, damaged, and diseased plants to help with accurate comparison.
English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries Available in hardcover.
In English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric English garden-makers who, between the early seventeenth and early twentieth centuries, created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens. They include such fascinating characters as the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley and the animal- and bird-loving Lady Read, as well as the celebrated master of
Vauxhall Gardens, Jonathan Tyers, who created at his home at Denbies one of the gloomiest and most perverse anti-pleasure gardens in Georgian England. Others built miniature mountains, shaped topiaries, displayed exotic animals, excavated caves, and assembled architectural fragments and fossils to realize their gardens in a way that was often thought
excessive.
With quirky and compelling illustrations and chapters including ‘Lady Broughton’s ‘Miniature copy of the Swiss Glaciers,’ ‘Topiary on a Gargantuan Scale: The Clipped ‘Yew-trees’ at Four Ancient London Churchyards,” and “The Burrowing Duke at Harcourt House,” English Garden Eccentrics brings together garden and landscape history with cultural history and biography. The book engagingly reveals what it is about the gardener and his or her creation that can be seen as eccentric and focuses on an area of garden history that has scarcely been explored: gardens seen as expressions of the singular character of their makers, and therefore functioning, in effect, as a form of autobiography.
This lively and accessible book calls on gardeners today to learn from example and dare to be eccentric.
(Resource: amazon.com)
In English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric English garden-makers who, between the early seventeenth and early twentieth centuries, created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens. They include such fascinating characters as the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley and the animal- and bird-loving Lady Read, as well as the celebrated master of
Vauxhall Gardens, Jonathan Tyers, who created at his home at Denbies one of the gloomiest and most perverse anti-pleasure gardens in Georgian England. Others built miniature mountains, shaped topiaries, displayed exotic animals, excavated caves, and assembled architectural fragments and fossils to realize their gardens in a way that was often thought
excessive.
With quirky and compelling illustrations and chapters including ‘Lady Broughton’s ‘Miniature copy of the Swiss Glaciers,’ ‘Topiary on a Gargantuan Scale: The Clipped ‘Yew-trees’ at Four Ancient London Churchyards,” and “The Burrowing Duke at Harcourt House,” English Garden Eccentrics brings together garden and landscape history with cultural history and biography. The book engagingly reveals what it is about the gardener and his or her creation that can be seen as eccentric and focuses on an area of garden history that has scarcely been explored: gardens seen as expressions of the singular character of their makers, and therefore functioning, in effect, as a form of autobiography.
This lively and accessible book calls on gardeners today to learn from example and dare to be eccentric.
(Resource: amazon.com)
January 2023
(This Month By Livia Bartlau)
The Backyard Homestead By Carleen Madigan
This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep honey bees for your sweeter days. With easy-to-follow instructions on canning, drying, and pickling, you’ll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long.
This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep honey bees for your sweeter days. With easy-to-follow instructions on canning, drying, and pickling, you’ll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long.
The Complete Gardener:
A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening Kindle Edition
by Monty Don
This extensively revised new edition of his Complete Gardener, first published in 2003, brings you right up-to-date on how Monty gardens today - and his recommendations for you. The original book combined practical advice with stunning photography, The Complete Gardener shows gardeners how to create a self sustainable, environmentally friendly garden for the 21st century, by making the most of the available natural resources to grow organic fruits and vegetables, as well as beautiful plants and flowers. Monty Don's personal chronicle of a year in his garden, including both successes and failures, shows how an organic lifestyle can be adopted by anyone, and organic gardening can be practiced in a yard of any size.
(Resource: amazon.com and goodreads.com)