New Book on the Garden in Winter
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- December
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As you may have guessed by now, I’m trying to plow through the big pile of new garden books on my desk and let you know which ones look worthwhile—in time for last-minute holiday shopping (is there any other?).
“The Garden in Winter” by Suzy Bales (Rodale, $34.95) looks pretty good. Lots of gorgeous photos and a fair amount of substance in the text, including plant lists and descriptions.
Bales is a contributing editor for “Better Homes and Garden” and the author of 13 books. She also does garden segments for “Good Morning America.” She splits her time between Manhattan and Oyster Bay on Long Island, so the book is very New York friendly.
There’s a whole chapter on using berries, bark, branches and seedpods from the garden for Christmas decorations.
Another good book on the winter garden is “Wonders of the Winter Landscape” by Vincent Simeone (Ball, 2005.
I’ve heard him speak a couple of times on this topic and he’s very good. Also based on Long Island.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
