[GWL]: Gardeners Love Books

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Of course, as members of GWAA, I hope you all recommend Ken Druse's award-winning book, Making More Plants.  It is selling like hot cakes and makes a great gift for serious gardeners.  I just ask that you mention the GWAA Quill & Trowel Award of the Year if you do recommend it. Anyone who needs information or visuals, just let me know or visit http://www.kendruse.com

Happy holidays to you all.

Thanks,

Suzi McCoy

610-388-9330

BTW – It’s going to be 70 degrees here today and my Knockout rose is still blooming its heart out!

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Lauterbach [mailto:melauter@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:10 PM
To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
Subject: Re: [GWL]: Gifts for Gardeners

I wrote a column a few years ago recommending Tracy DiSabato-Aust's

"Well-Tended Perennial Garden," and book stores sold out within 5 minutes

after opening.  That's understandable because not even Barnes & Noble

stocks a lot of copies of any one book. A gift I recommended and gave has

received a lot of attention, though.

I've been writing a weekly garden column for 8 years. Prior to that, I was

one of three rotating columnists for the Boise daily newspaper. I asked one

of the other columnists what his favorite garden tool was, and he said it

was a Japanese farmers' knife, but they were hard to find.  I bought one by

mail order for my husband, and he loved it. I hefted it and did not love

it. It was clumsy in my hand.  A friend did a lot of supportive computer

work for me, and I gave him garden tools-- a ss transplant shovel and ss

spading fork from Lee Valley, and later I gave him a Japanese farmers

knife.  (He would not accept pay)  The day I gave him the farmers' knife,

he took it home and wore the black coating off before that first evening.

He said he doesn't go out to garden now without it.  The area of town in

which he lives is older, and he said you can't stick a trowel in the ground

without fighting roots.  This knife just slices through the roots.  Now

he's looking for one for his wife.  She's evidently tried it, and I've

talked to a number of women who garden who are also crazy about that

tool.  Margaret Lauterbach

>I'm sure many of you have written a column or article on 'Gifts for

>Gardeners' at one time or another. I'm interested in which gifts you

>suggested rec'd the most feedback?

>

>Carla Allen

>http://www.carlaallen.ca

>~An East Coast Gardener~

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