books
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The Best Book Party Ever
Okay, the only book party I’ve ever been to, but it was for the best book in my gardening life. Two of my fellow graduates from gardening school, Stina Pyrrö (text) and Hanna Marttinen (pictures) have made a beautiful and resourceful book, “Puutarhan vihreä vuosi“, together that was just recently published. They arranged a launch party and were nice enough to invite me. The pictures, the text and the layout work together in a beautiful way. It’s my hand in the picture touching a ‘White Triumphator’ tulip among Phalaris arundinacea ‘Picta’ in my garden. I love the realness of this book; ordinary things become beautiful when they are genuinely captured. No…
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The Garden’s Green Year
The title of the post is a clumsy translation of a new gardening book by two of my old classmates and good friends from gardening school. I’m very proud of them, Stina Pyrrö, the author, was a reporter even before she came to gardening school and Hanna Marttinen, the photographer, did the same thing I did, i.e. studied some more after gardening school; in her case photography. Hanna is a fantastic photographer as well as one of my best friends and I’ve worked with her both in my day job and doing freelance work. Some of the pictures in the book have been previously published, which is why I’m in…
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On the Subject of Winter Gardening
Not surprisingly, considering my 200+ library on gardening books, I have a few on the subject of winter gardening. An old favorite is “Rimfrost och trädgårdsdrömmar” by the wonderful Hannu Sarenström (1997, 2003), which is more about dreaming away during winter time, than winter gardening per se, but it’s brilliant and there are plenty of stunning pictures, some of which have been taken indoors. I also have one British book, which is kind of the “mama’s boy” of the bunch, I mean there aren’t serious winters in the UK so it is kind of tame in comparison to the others. But, it features nice winter gardening for a warmer climate,…
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