Favorite Books

Gift ideas for your mama

by Rebecca Sweet 1 May 2012

With Mother’s Day fast approaching, I’ve been giving a lot of thought about what to give my own mother.  My mom is an incredible gardener but can be pretty picky, so finding the perfect gift is always a bit challenging. Which means I’m always on the look out for something a little out of the [...]

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Breakfast at Sunset – another fabulous giveaway!

by Rebecca Sweet 27 March 2012

Last week I was invited to have breakfast at Sunset magazine’s headquarters, along with a few of my favorite fellow gardeners.  The event was to welcome the new Sunset Edible Garden Cookbook, which will be released next week, as well as to tour the grounds and the test garden. While of course I was thrilled [...]

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Review & Giveaway – The New Sunset Western Garden Book

by Rebecca Sweet 5 March 2012

I have been dying to get my hands on the 9th edition of the New Western Garden Book: The Ultimate Gardening Guide (Oxmoor House, 2012. List Price $34.95). Well, it’s finally here and I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been given a copy to review.  And as if that weren’t enough – Sunset is letting [...]

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Book Review & Giveaway – The Heirloom Life Gardener

by Rebecca Sweet 20 December 2011

A few weeks ago the folks at Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company asked if I’d like to review a copy of their new book The Heirloom Life Gardener, by Jere and Emilee Gettle (227 pages, Hyperion, 2011.  List Price $29.99) I was excited to read this book because even though I’m a passionate gardener and [...]

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Gossip in the Garden’s Great Giveaway – Dr. Dirr’s Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs

by Rebecca Sweet 27 November 2011

Thanksgiving has come and gone, as has the turkey, the leftovers and the relatives. Having survived Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and now Cyber Monday, it seems to me the world is in a shopping frenzy.  Everyone is in a mad race to find the perfect gift for their loved ones and it’s pure mayhem [...]

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Book Review- 50 Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants

by Rebecca Sweet 11 July 2011

50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants  The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don’t Eat Written by Ruth Rogers Clausen Photography by Alan L. Detrick (Timberpress) I usually don’t review many books, but when a title comes up that I deal with on a daily basis I’ll make an exception!  Deer are one of the [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable – Mixing Edibles & Ornamentals

by Rebecca Sweet 22 February 2011

Remember when having a vegetable garden meant a collection of raised beds, or a few tomato plants in a pot?  Instead of banishing them to out-of-the-way areas, these days, edibles are everywhere in the garden – mixed with ornamentals, scrambling out of recycled containers, and clambering up apartment walls. This topic of this month’s Garden [...]

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My very first Author Review….(and book review, too!)

by Rebecca Sweet 8 April 2010

. This is my very first official ‘Book Review’.  But since there’s already so many wonderful reviews of Debra Lee Baldwin’s Succulent Container Gardens out there, I thought I might do something a little different – review the AUTHOR first, and THEN review  the book. . I mean, really – who doesn’t want to know [...]

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