Valentine’s Day is coming soon!
Valentine’s Day is approaching — candy is bad for your waistline, cut flowers die, jewelry is expensive, and picking a perfume is a risk—Give a gift your honey can sink their teeth into without guilt and one that will last forever,yet not break the bank!! Give a gardening book!!
A gardening book will remind your sweety of you every time they pick it up. Sign the inside with a heartfelt message and a few hugs and kisses for good measure, and you’ve created a keepsake! Plus…the flowers inside the pages won’t be dead by President’s day! So many great books..so little time, but some picks appropriate for the occasion include…
- Hot Plants for Cool Climates: Gardening with Tropical Plants in Temperate Zones by Susan A. Roth and Dennis Schrader
- Intimate Gardens: Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guides by C. Colston Burrell with Lucy Hardiman or The Intimate Garden by Gordon and Mary Hayward
- Monet’s Passion: Ideas, Inspiration and Insights from the Painter’s Gardens by Elizabeth Murray
- Scents in Your Garden by Stephen Lacey (better than perfume!)
- The Jewel Box Garden by Thomas Hobbs
That beautiful photo of dicentra really lifted my spirits today. How lovely! I love the logic of giving a gardening book too. Let me see, I’ll have to leave the list in some very obvious place…. LOL Thanks for the smile this morning.