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TheBookHippie
The Complete Book of Herbs | Lesley Bremness
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My favorite book for herbs 🌱🍃🌿🌱

#LitSolace #SpringEquinox
#Fridaynightshare favourite Spring -Non-fiction book.

🌱🍃💚🌿

Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛 6d
AllDebooks 💚🌱💚 6d
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Billypar
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Pickpick

#AuldLangSpine
@TheBookHippie @monalyisha
I love the concept of a bio that zeros in on an artist's favorite hobby. Something about focusing on something besides her writing made Emily Dickinson feel more like a real person instead of her standard brilliant poet role. The page layouts are gorgeous - McDowell discusses ED's relationship to gardening throughout her life, along with photos, illustrations, poems, and excerpts from letters. 🌺🌻🌼🌷🪻

monalyisha Wow, yeah. What a pretty example of book as visual art! 1w
TheBookHippie I just LOVE IT! I‘m so happy you did as well!!! 1w
Texreader How awesome!! Love this post too!! 1w
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TheBookHippie
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#hyggehourreadathon

Pretending it‘s gardening time 💚

Cupcake12 I love the cushion design x 2w
AllDebooks 🌱🤞soon 🌱💚 2w
mabell I heard this author speak at the MO Botanical Garden! I gave this book to my mom last year 😊 She also wrote the Gardening Can Be Murder book @Chrissyreadit 1w
TheBookHippie @mabell I have the Emily Dickinson one as well. How fun you heard her speak!!! It‘s an amazing book! 1w
mabell I gave the Emily to my mom too! I enjoyed the author very much - She was quite an entertaining speaker 1w
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Leftcoastzen
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No shelf control! #bookhaul

Graywacke Lovely! 🙂 2w
LeahBergen These look super interesting! 2w
Hooked_on_books Oooo, looks like an awesome haul! 2w
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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#Pemberlittens I've been contemplating color schemes for flower beds up against the house. There are plenty of foundation shrubs for greenery but no flowers. And then replacement copy of In The Garden with Jane Austen. My brick and brick at Chawtow Cottage are a close match! It's giving me lots of inspiration. 🏡

#inthegardenwithjaneausten

julieclair Love this! Would love to see a pic once you've planted the flowers. 3w
julieclair Yay! 3w
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DebinHawaii
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Thanks @Eggs for the #TLT #ThreeListThursday tag! 🤗

Hard to narrow it down to 3 but:

1️⃣ The tagged book is set in Kauai & I love the combo of memoir, science/plants & history. 🌺

2️⃣ The View From the Cheap Seats-Neil Gaiman essays, many about writing & books—what‘s not to love? ✍️🖤

3️⃣ I‘ll Be Gone in the Dark: Amazing true crime (I had to read it in daylight) but the whole story around Michelle McNamara & the Golden State Killer, wow! 😱

Eggs You‘re welcome ☺️ 3w
dabbe You've given me even more to explore! Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 3w
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TheBookHippie
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#naturalitsy read

I just loved this.

I also found the authors website and added a ton of oh I must read that …https://www.andreawulf.com/andrea-wulf/about-the-brother-gardeners.html

AllDebooks Oh my 😍 1mo
Chrissyreadit so i thought it was slow- should i keep going? 1mo
TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit I loved the pictures too. I dunno I‘m fascinated with the backstory and how plants got where 👩🏻‍🌾🪴 I did read a little everyday -maybe that‘s the key. 1mo
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jlhammar
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So interesting! Extensively researched and very readable. #NaturaLitsy

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AllDebooks
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#Naturalitsy

Hi all, I've missed our weekly chats!

Here's the discussion thread for February's #buddyread for you to share your thoughts.
I really hope you enjoyed it. I still have the last section to go, so I will catch up over the next few days.
All welcome to join in the discussion.

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Cuilin For a book that could have been dry, I found it exciting, compelling and informative. I loved it! I will be reading more by this author. I loved the relationships, the petty arguments by letter, the voyages, even Cpt Blythe showed up. The casual racism, slavery, and Imperialism though of its time was still frustrating. Overall well written. 1mo
TheBookHippie I love it. Almost done reading. 1mo
jlhammar Enlightening read! Really enjoyed. In Part I, I thought it was so interesting (and kind of funny from a modern day perspective) that Fairchild felt the need to attribute his hybrid to accident. And the uproar over and resistance to the Linneaus classification system, “inadequate because the sexual organs of plants were 'mere geewgaws'“ was also fascinating (and amusing 😆). 1mo
jlhammar This bit from Part 2 made me chuckle “His worst insult he saved for the hated Siegesbeck, who, as punishment for having so relentlessly criticised Linnaeus's sexual system, will be forever remembered in Siegesbeckia, a stinking weed that thrives in wasteland.“ 1mo
jlhammar Lots of disturbing behavior in Part 3 such as Banks and Solander taking Tupia, a Tahitian priest, back to England to “keep him as a curiosity.“ I liked how Banks gave his wife a brooch of dried moss and she was less than enthusiastic 😆 “fool that she likes diamonds better.“ 1mo
Bookwormjillk I spend a lot of time removing invasive plants and re-planting with native species, so I had had to chuckle at the topic of this book. I enjoyed it although I got all of the people confused. 1mo
yourfavouritemixtape I liked it a lot. It was very interesting and very entertaining to read. I also thought Fairchild‘s problem with his hybrid was fascinating. As well as Linneaus‘ story. 1mo
AllDebooks It was a completely unexpected read. I, too, thought it might be a bit dry and stuffy @Cuilin But Wulf has done a fantastic job at tracing these mens lives from the UK, Europe and the States. I was fascinated by the petty squabbles and felt for Bartram. He really was taken advantage before the subscription boxes started. 1mo
AllDebooks Who knew Linnaeus was such as ass? 🤔 1mo
AllDebooks I was quite surprised that a number of species I thought were native to UK are in fact, from the Americas. 1mo
Cuilin @AllDebooks I wondered if the author regretted naming her daughter Linnea. 1mo
Cuilin @jlhammar 🤣🤣🤣 1mo
TheBookHippie @AllDebooks I had this same thought when watching a Catherine The Great documentary about her gardens. She grew food from the Americas to prevent famine but also flowers. One never thinks of things like that or I guess I didn‘t. 1mo
AllDebooks @CatLass007 Great, welcome 😊 1mo
CatLass007 Thank you! 1mo
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yourfavouritemixtape
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My first #Naturalitsy read this year and oh, it was fascinating! Loved all the history and the facts. There‘s so much you just take for granted and never really ask yourself how it got here in the first place. It also I am itching to finally go outside and start planting but I have to wait another month…