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The book is called Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Hidden Language of Flowers, published by Cool Springs Press and featuring fifty pen and colored pencil drawings of flowers with special meanings attached to their blossoms. Since Victorian times, flowers have enabled us to express ourselves without uttering a word. In Loves Me, She Loves Me Not, I've had a chance to explore the fascinating history of floral messages. You'll also find intriguing plant lore, unexpected historical connections, or simply an opportunity to connect with a beloved in a unique way. My publisher has a splash page, so, go!
The show's over for another year, and it was smaller than in years past, Atlanta being consumed with a drought of mammoth proportions. Since 1987, the SouthEastern Flower Show (SEFS) has been an annual Southern tradition, in a salute to the best of gardening in Georgia's Queen City and the great gardening found in the Southeastern part of the country.
Folks trooped to the World Congress Center to find out what was new in the world of floral beauty, what was happening with tools dedicated to the conservation of water, and to enjoy being with a host of other gardeners while the the flowers bloomed and a one-man jazz band played popular songs written back in the days when lyrics counted.
Ranked among the top ten flower shows in the country, SEFS presents a major horticultural, gardening, and educational exhibition, with roots firmly planted in both the soul and the soil of the South. From the early days of Atlanta's history, Southerners nurtured a traditional interest in flower gardens and created beautiful arrangements to decorate their homes while garden clubs were formed as an opportunity to socialize and exchange knowledge of floriculture and design. In the 1930s, fourteen garden clubs came together to produce the first Atlanta Flower Show, a small but popular event of high quality that enjoyed a loyal following throughout the city for many years, with the final show winding up its career at the old Lenox Square Auditorium in April 1969.
Nearly 20 years later, in 1987, officials of the Atlanta Botanical Garden (ABG), along with officials at the Atlanta Market Center (AMC), re-invented the Atlanta Flower Show and added landscaped gardens, illustrated lectures and a very large and diverse selection of commercial vendors.
And now look at the petals wave!
When thinking about the madness of today, remember what W. G. Sebald wrote about Austria's Thomas Bernhard, as quoted in the December 25, 2006 issue of The New Yorker: "He found a dark humour in the tension between the insanity of the world and the demands of reason."
The following digest of a poem by Rudyard
Kipling (1865-1936) is a salute to the con-
tinued stupidity of the White House and the
Cabinet and the Generals and the Congress
and the whole ball of Washington wax.
The Conundrum of the Workshops
The tale is as old as the Eden Tree--
and new as the new-cut tooth--
For each man knows ere his lip-thatch grows
he is master of Art and Truth;
And each man hears as the twilight nears,
to the beat of his dying heart,
The Devil drum on the darkened pane:
"You did it, but was it Art?"
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree
to the shape of a surplice-peg
We have learned to bottle our parents twain
in the yelk of an addled egg,
We know that the tail must wag the dog,
for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old:
"It's clever, but is it Art?"
"History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the kings' bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly." J. H. Fabre
Here's another bit I was tardy about: Some months ago I promised to run the old
column on what you can grow in the vicinity of walnuts. Walnuts, as most gardeners
know, produce a poison known as juglans, a chemical that attracts a number of other
plants causing them to languish, then slowly fade away. But there are a number of
plants that appear to be immune. Because I generally write about ornamental plants and limit
vegetables to those purchased at the organic market or grown in containers on our
deck, I give such plants short shrift. So vegetable growers living within a walnut's sphere
of influence, please note the following:
In the world of vegetables, avoid all member if the Solanum or tomato family,
parsely, blackberries, and raspberries.
Vegetables such as alliums, beans, carrots, melons, can be grown.
Fruits allowed are peaches, nectarines, cherries, plums, pears, and black raspberries.
One important thing to remember is cleaning up leaves, etc. from under the walnut
when they fall. With flowers, eschew marigolds.
So here's the column:
Walnut Trees: A few months ago on WCQS our roundtable received a phone call
about plants that are impervious to the threat of death presented by walnuts to
many members of the plant world. Seems more than the average number of gardeners
had old black walnut trees on their properties and while having problems raising
other species in the trees' vicinity, wanted to keep the walnuts.
---The following are various perennials, annuals, trees, vines, and shrubs that
are not intimidated by juglans, the poison produced by walnut trees. Perennials
include Ajuga reptans, bugleweed; Alcea rosea, hollyhock; Asarum
europaeum, European wild ginger; Astilbe spp.; Campanula latifolia,
bellflower; New York Asters Aster.spp Chrysanthemum spp., hardy chrysanthemum; Doronicum spp.,
leopard's bane; Dryopteris cristata, crested wood fern; Galium odoratum,
sweet woodruff; Geranium robertianum, herb Robert; Geranium sanguineum,
cranesbill; Hemerocallis fulva, common daylily; Hieracium aurantiacum,
orange hawkweed; Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem artichoke; Heuchera
x brizoides 'Pluie de Feu', coral bells; and to round out the "H's" here's
a number of hostas, incuding: Hosta fortunei 'Glauca', H. lancifolia,
H. marginata, H. undulata 'Variegata', and Hydrophyllum virginianum,
Virginia waterleaf.
---Iris sibirica, Siberian iris; Monarda didyma, bee balm; Monarda
fistulosa, wild bergamot; Oenothera fruiticosa, sundrops; Onoclea
sensibilis, sensitive fern; Osmunda cinnamomea, cinnamon fern, Phlox
paniculata, summer phlox; Polemonium reptans, Jacob's ladder; Polygonatum
commutatum, great Solomon's seal; Primula x polyantha polyanthus
primrose; Pulmonaria spp., lungwort; Sanguinaria Canadensis, bloodroot;
Sanguinaria canadensis 'Mulitplex', double-flowered bloodroot; Sedum acre,
gold moss; Sedum spectabile, sedum; Stachys byzantina, lamb's ear;
Tradescantia virginiana, spiderwort; Trillium cernum, nodding trillium;
Trillium grandiflorum, great white trillium; Uvularia grandiflora,
great merrybells; Viola Canadensis, Canada violet; and V. sororia,
woolly blue violet (and note that under a walnut, the Canada violet is almost as
much of a thug as it is elsewhere in the garden). Allow me to add to this section,
two vines, Clematis spp. 'Red Cardinal' and Parthenocissus quinquefolia,
Virginia creeper.
---As to bulbs, there are: Chionodoxa luciliae, glory-of-the-snow; Endymion
hispanicus, Spanish bluebell; Galanthus nivalis, snowdrops; Muscari
botryoides, grape hyacinth;
---There are a number of shrubs, indluding Daphne mezereum, February daphne;
Forsythia suspense, weeping forsythia; Hibiscus syriacus, Rose of
Sharon; Lonicera tatarica, Tatarian honeysuckle; and the following rhododendrons
Rhododendron periclymenoides, pinxterbloom, R. spp., Exbury 'Gibraltar',
and R. spp., Exbury 'Balzac'.
---The trees include: Acer palmatum, Japanese maple; A. palmatum
'Dissectum', cut-leaf Japanese maple; Tsuga Canadensis, Canadian hemlock.
---Finally, for those gardeners in a hurry, here are a few annuals: Begonia spp.,
fibrous cultivars and B. 'Nonstop', a tuberous begonia; and Ipomoea spp.,
'Heavenly Blue'.
---If I learn of more species, I'll post them ASAP!
The Beat--and the War--Goes On! A noble experiment in responsibility
to humanity--not limited to patriotism alone--has seen the light of an Asheville
day as the Iraq Wall begins in Montford--and expands--with a stone wall made up
of individual river stones. Each stone is engraved with the name, age, and home
town of a US soldier killed in the Iraq War, and plans include a future memorial
to the Iraqi dead. Web site for The Peace
Park and Wall in honor of Iraqi dead--both American and Iraqi.
The Wild Gardener is on WCQS
We're back on the radio just in time to
celebrate the coming spring with your three intrepid gardeners (me, Allison Arnold, and
Patryck Battle) meeting under the stewardship of David Hurand at WCQS, Public Radio
in Asheville. Look for us at FM 88.1 on the first Wednesday of the month at 6:00
PM. Hopefully we will entertain and answer the latest questions about poison
ivy, bugs that threaten (and those that do not), and how to shepherd your garlic
through the mountain winters we adore. Now, thanks to the continuing march of
science, you can listen to past programs by going to the radio Web site WCQS Public Radio in Asheville and following the
menu. And don't forget, The Wild Gardener is on WNCW (Asheville's other Public
Radio station) at FM 88.7 every week on Tuesday morning around 7:45.
A
Source List for Native Perennials for the Southeast! My new book
deals with native plants yearning to be grown in the wonderful gardens of our
own Southeast. Due to a publications error, the list of sources was never
included in the text so until reprint time, here are the various nurseries and
seed suppliers ready to help out in your quest for great garden
plants.
Perennials:
--Brent and Becky’s Bulbs, 7900 Daffodil
Lane, Gloucester, VA 23061 www.brentandbeckybulbs.com
--Burt Associates
Bamboo, P.O. Box 719-W, Westford, MA 01886 www.bamboos.com
--Camellia Forest
Nursery, 125 Carolina Forest Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27515
www.camforest.com
--Collector’s Nursery, 16804 NE 102nd Avenue, Battle
Ground, WA 98604, 360-574-3832 www.collectorsnursery.com
--Digging Dog
Nursery, P.O. Box 471, Albion, CA 95410, 707-937-1130,
www.diggingdog.com
--Fairweather Gardens, Box 333, Greenwich, NJ 08323,
www.fairweathergardens.com
--Forest Farm, 990 Tetherow Road, Williams, OR
97544-9599, 541-846-7269, www.forestfarm.com
--Glasshouse Works, Church
Street, P.O. Box 97, Stewart, OH 45778-0097, 740-662-2142,
www.rareplants.com
--Goodness Grows, P. O. Box 311, 332 Elberton St. (Hwy
77N), Lexington, GA 30648, 706-743-5055, www.goodnessgrows.com
--Gossler
Farms Nursery, 1200 Weaver Road, Springfield, OR 97478,
www.gosslerfarms.com
--New England Bamboo Company, 5 Granite Street,
Rockport, MA 01966, 978-546-3581, www.newengbamboo.com
--Niche Gardens, 1111
Dawson Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, 919-967-0078,
www.nichegardens.com
--Plant Delights Nursery, Inc., 9241 Sauls Road,
Raleigh, NC 27603, 919-772-4794, www.plantdelights.com
--Plants of the
Southwest, Aqua Fria, Rte 6, Box 11-A, Santa Fe, NM 87501, 800-788-7333,
www.plantsofthesouthwest.com
--Sunshine Farm and Gardens; HC 67 Box 539 B,
Renick, WV 24966, www.sunfarm.com
--Toadshade Wildflower Farm, 53
Everittstown Road, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, www.toadshade.com
--Trans-Pacific
Nursery, 20110 Canyon Road, Sheridan, OR 97378,
www.WorldPlants.com
--Variegated Foliage Nursery, 245 Westford Road,
Eastford, CT 06242, 860-974-3951
--The Water Garden Shop, 25289 SW Stafford
Road, Tualatin, OR 97062, 503-638-1709,
www.thewatergardenshop.com
--Wilkerson Mill Gardens, 9595 Wilkerson Mill
Road, Palmetto, GA 30268, 770-463-2400, www.hydrangea.com
--Woodlanders, 1128
Colleton Avenue, Aiken, SC 29801,
www.woodlanders.com.
Seeds:
--Chiltern Seeds, Bortree Stile,
Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 7PB, England, www.chileternseeds.co.uk
--The Fragrant
Path, P.O. Box 328, Fort Calhoun, NB 68023
--J. L. Hudson, Seedsman, Star
Route 2, Box 337, La Honda, CA 94020, www.JLHudsonSeeds.net
--Park Seed
Company, 1 Parkton Avenue, Greenwood, SC 29647-0001, 800-845-3369,
www.countrysidegardens.com
--Prairie Nursery, P.O. Box 306, Westfield, WI
53964, 800-476-9453, www.prairienursery.com
--Thompson & Morgan, P.O. Box
1308, Jackson, NJ 08527-0308, 800-274-7333, www.thompson-morgan.com.
Stealing the Garden!
What was once the glory of the garden is now
color swatches parlayed by interior decorators into TV shows of such
insignificance, that even Fox News has purpose. Thanks to Pam Beck for sending
me the following quote from the BBC Garden Site: "I have to say that I am really
angry at the moment. I have watched with increasing frustration my beloved
hobby, my chosen way of life, the thing I love the most hijacked by what seems
to me to be a gang of interior decorators and installation artists." Nigel
Colborm 
A
New Book from Out of the Past
The original edition of Seeds: The
Definitive Guide to Growing, History & Lore was published by The
Macmillan Company in 1995, meant as a kind of companion volume to The Evening
Garden but before the seed book was actually distributed, the grand and
glorious Macmillan name passed into dust and all the books were forgotten
somewhere in the Midwest. Luckily, Timber Press jumped into the fray and a new
edition of the book is scheduled for publication in March of this year. From
grains of rice and wheat to corn kernels and coconuts, seeds provide the
majority of the world's food supply and on a more humble level, every garden and
gardener depends on seeds to provide beauty and nourishment.
Seeds:
--B & T World Seeds, Route des Marchandes,
Paguignan, 34210 Olonzac, France; phone: 33 (0) 4 68 91 29 63. Website:
www.b-and-t-world-seeds.com. A simply staggering collection of seeds from around
the world.
--Chiltern Seeds, Bortree Stile, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 7PB,
England; 01229 581137. Website: www.chilternseeds.co.uk. An amazing selection of
seeds from around the world, a selection that grows year by year.
--The
Fragrant Path, POBox 328, Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68023. Large seed selection of
rare and unusual plants by seed. He has no Website and only answers mail.
--Seeds of Italy, 260 West Hendon Broadway, London NW9 6BE, England; phone:
0044 (0) 20 8930 2516. Email: grow@italianingredients.com. Website:
http://www.seedsofitaly.sagenet.co.uk. Seeds of Italy were founded in 1783 by
the current owner's great great great great great grandfather who sold seeds
from his horse-drawn cart and is now the second largest seed company in Italy.
--Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, P.O. Box 460, Mineral, VA 23117; Phone:
540-894-9480. Website: www.southernexposure.com. Unusual vegetable and flower
seeds.
Plants:
--Digging Dog Nursery, P.O. Box 471, Albion,
CA 95410; phone: 707-937-1130, FAX: 707-937-2480. Email:
business@diggingdog.com. Website: www.diggingdog.com. Another esoteric catalog
with many fascinating plants.
--Dutch Gardens, POBox 2037, Lakewood, New
Jersey 08701. Website: www.dutchgarderns.com A very large selection of choice
bulbs and plants imported from Europe.
--ForestFarm, 990 Tetherow Road,
Williams, OR 97544-9599; 541-846-6963, Fax: 541-846-6963. Website:
www.forestfarm.com. An incredible nursery with a tremendous selection of plants
and great packaging for shipping.
--Girard Nurseries, P.O. Box 428, 6839
North Ridge East, Geneva, OH 44041; Phone: 440-466-2881, Fax: 440-466-3999.
Website: www.girardnurseries.com. Rhododendrons, conifers, and shrubs.
--Goodness Grows, 332 Elberton Road, P.O. Box 311, Lexington, GA 30648;
Phone: 706-743-5055, Fax: 706-743-5112. Website: www.goodnessgrows.com. A
marvelous selection of perennials.
--Logee’s Greenhouses, 141 North Street,
Danielson, CN 06239-1939; Phone: 1-888-330-8038, Fax: 1-888-774-9932. Website:
www.logees.com. An amazing collection of tropicals, including begonias,
geraniums, and fruits.
--New England Bamboo Company, 5 Granite Street,
Rockport, MA 01966; Phone: 978-546-3581. Website: www.newengbamboo.com. A good
selection of specialty bamboos.
--Niche Gardens, 1111 Dawson Road, Chapel
Hill, NC 27516; Phone: 919-967-0078, Fax: 919-967-4026. Website:
www.nichegdn.com. An eclectic collection of native plants including ornamental
grasses.
--Plant Delights Nursery, Inc., 9241 Sauls Road, Raleigh, NC 27603;
919-772-4794, email: office@plantdelights.com. Website: wwwplantdelights.com.
Another fine collection of perennials.
--Roslyn Nursery, 211 Burrs Lane, Dix
Hills, NY 11746; Phone: 631-643-9347, Fax 631-427-0894. Website:
www.roslynnursery.com. Shrubs including rhododendrons and conifers plus
perennials.
--Roycroft Daylily Nursery, 942 White Hall Avenue, Georgetown,
SC 29440; phone: 843-527-1533, Fax: 843-546-2281; email: rdn@sccoast.net.
http://roycroftdaylilies.com. A complete selection of daylilies.
--The Sandy
Mush Herb Nursery, 316 Surrett Cove Road, Leicester, NC 28748; 828-683-2014;
www.sandymushherbs.com. A unique selection of herbs, plants, and abundant native
flora.
--Southern Exposure, 35 Minor at Rusk, Beaumont, TX 77702-2414;
Phone: 409-835-0644. Website:
--Trans-Pacific Nursery, 16065 Oldsville Road,
McMinnville,OR 97128; Message phone: 503-472-6215, Fax: 503-434-1505; Email:
groe@worldplants.com. Website: www.worldplants.com. Their Website is an
introduction to plants you never knew existed. Trennoll Nursery, 3 West Page
Avenue, POBox 125, Trenton, Ohio 45067, 513-988-6121. Rock plants and many small
evergreens.
--Wilkerson Mill Gardens, 9595 Wilkerson Mill road, Palmetto, GA
30268; 770-463-2400, Fax: 770-463-9717, Website: www.hydrangea.com. Elizabeth
Dean runs a marvelous nursery with a glowing collection of lots of perennials
and a special collection of hydrangeas.
Supplies:
--Bonsai by
the Monastery, 2625 Hwy. 212 SW, Conyers, GA 30094-4044; Phone:
800-778-POTS(7687), Fax: 770-760-0989; Email: bonsaimonk@bonsaimonk.com.
Website: www.bonsaimonk.com. Everything you would ever need for
bonsai.
--Charley’s Greenhouse & Garden, 17979 Star Route 536, Mount
Vernon, WA 98273-3269, Phone: 1-800-322-4707, Fax: 1-800-233-3078; Website:
www.charleysgreenhouse.com. Everything you ever needed for your greenhouse.
--Walt Nicke Company, P.O. Box 433, 36 McLeod Lane, Topsfield MA 01983;
Phone: 978-887-3388; Website: www.gardentalk.com. The original garden supplier
of tools and equipment.
--The Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants is
located at P.O. Box 316, Charlottesville, VA 22902. The phone is: (800)
243-0743. I'm sure they must have a Web site, too.
New Buttons Join
the Vertical Rows
You will note a new button has joined the line of
buttons below, a button that features a link to a new edition of prints using
the method known as glass lithography or more properly as vitreography. Thanks
to the generosity of Harvey Littleton, who is renowned for his artistry in glass
and widely recognized as the father of the studio glass movement in America, I
have been working in those Spruce Pine studios finishing an edition of ten
prints, all with subjects derived from the world of plants and plant structures.
It's been a phenomenal spring, this spring of 2006. For some reason (closely
connected with the passing winter, the temperatures, the rainfall, and the
mountain psyche), everything seemed to bloom at once: Red maples vied with
camellias, in turn blooming above crocuses and daffs, providing one of the best
floral shows that we've seen in years. Then came the trilliums on parade. The
image on the right is the noble yellow wake robin or toad shade (Trillium
luteum also called var.luteum or T. viride var.
luteum), a yellow-flowering variety of the common deep maroon toadshade,
with flowers usually lemony yellow to a very pale green. The yellow wakerobbin
is native to the American Southeast, and found in dame woods ranging from
Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, to North Carolina and Tennessee. Three yellow petals
stand upright in the middle of three green sepals that either lay flat or are
somewhat upright like the petals. The elflike mountain dwellers call it the
goblet trillium and unlike the maroon variety, this form has a light scent of
lemons. Like its maroon relative, the three large leaves are mottled and if
somebody could develop a variety that would keep its leaves until the fall,
their fortune would be made--many times over.
Last
October the toad lilies bloomed in my garden and the election came and
went--with about twenty percent of Ashevillians voting while eighty percent sat
at home, apparently watching survival shows on TV as their city continues to
embowell itself with dirt, traffic, noise, and woeful development. This year
Asheville pits those who want to keep the city green and thriving with those who
want commercial developement (like the Grove Park Inn condos in our downtown
square, a project soundly defeated by the citizens of the city), brought in to
eventually strangle that golden goose who only awaits more developement in order
to burst! The rain promises to wash out our air remember, the higher up the
mountains you climb, the worse the ozone levels get. But be of good cheer, the
power companies to the west of North Carolina, continue to spew smoke and the
President wants to roll back any responsibilities for those power companies. And
the congress (lower case, here) bows to political pressure believing that if the
citizenry want to breathe, let 'em don masks! Please write our new senator, Ms.
Dole and implore her that when it comes to the air we breathe, she must vote her
conscience and not the political way!
A while ago, moving some houseplants around the livingroom, I
disturbed a very small napping spider who was resting from building a little
small web that stretched between two branches on a flowering maple. It reminded
me to watch a great Sherlock Holmes' movie that I have on VHS entitled
Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman, with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock,
Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, and Gale Sondergard as the Spider Woman. In a dank
basement in Soho, The Spider Woman was busy raising a special breed of poisonous
spider using a cultivar of the night-blooming cereus as pet food. Upon reaching
her goal, she was prepared to attack the Houses of Parliament, freeing dozens of
the spiders and aiming them in the direction of politicians in general. Only two
things could stop her devilish scheme: The government could pay her big bucks
(or pounds) or Sherlock and Dr. Watson would foil her dastardly plot. The
government went to Sherlock and the Spider Woman fell victim to her own little
beasts. It all reminded me that Vanilla Sky was very, very bad and would
have benefited from spiders somewhere in the plot. 
Dear Wild Gardener: I realize there is often no answer to what
market forces perceive to be in the public's interest but I thought I would
bring the latest threat to good gardening to your attention (I will keep the
process called "Donut Mulching" for another letter). It comes from northeast
Pennsylvania where "colored mulch" has hit the scene with the physical force of
an old mushroom but the mental "POW" of a juggernaut. The wood-chips are dyed
with a fast color that borders on bright orange but (thankfully) does fade over
time. But, today, orange! Tomorrow, possibly red, yellow, and blue! Imagine:
Smiley Faces to beat the band! Adding insult to injury, they spread the mulch
over layers of black plastic sheeting. I realize that education continues to be
under assault in our United States but imagine the future of gardening as these
folks continue to march in the name of the masses? Best, J.H.
NOTE: The term donut mulching might be in transition as the new moniker turns out
to be volcano mulching, the mulch being the volcano cone and the tree assuming
the guise of the spurting lava, usually brown instead of fiery orange! And so it
goes . . .
Occasionally, bad taste rears its ugly visage in the garden and
often the horror is brought to the backyard in the name of art. Remember, I'm
not talking about rubber tires, turned inside out, painted white, then filled
with masses of petunias because I salute this method of container gardening,
finding it far more respectable then nothing. No, I'm talking about gnomes,
elves, and the polka-dotted garbed rears of rotund ladies who are made of
plywood and painted in primary colors. 
For example, at left is one of the uglier elves (if it was a
gnome it would be subterranean), I've yet encountered and quickly point out,
it's not from around here. Here's a case where the urge to do something
decorative has been pushed into service with no thought given to what is one of
the fastest fading trends in society, that of good taste. I am reminded of the
old addage: "Everybody to their own taste," said the Old Lady as she kissed the
cow. As to the "OL" look for her to the right where she continues to garden
away, possibly there until the mountains fall, all based on the longevity of the
plywood and the paint.
The latest question for general audiences (send garden
questions to The Wild
Gardener where, hopefully, they will be speedingly answered) goes on hold
because I feel compelled to bring the newest abomination to hit the world of
horticulture: Colored Mulch!--so orchids and ligularias wait in the wings while
the Wild Gardener's latest column mentions pitcher plants and their victims.
Remember, you'll find a list of my books by clicking one of the buttons
below. Most books are available from the newly decorated (but still grand) The
Captains Bookshelf located in downtown Asheville at 31 Page Avenue, Asheville,
NC 28801; phone: 828-253-6631 or email to captsbooks@aol.com. Newer titles are
also found at Malaprop's Bookstore (downtown at the corner of Haywood and
Walnut); phone 828-254-6734. Many of my books, plus a number by fellow garden
writers, are available at the website for Carolina Gardener magazine.
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