Re: gardening book sales

**"Tom Ogren" t*@earthlink.net**

    I too can not imagine not having my own personal library of garden
books. I use some of these books every day and others infrequently, but it
is good to have them when I need them.
    If someone wants to give me a present for a birthday or holiday they
always know I'll appreciate a new, interesting book on garden design,
agriculture, horticulture, botany, nature, and so forth. For many of us die
hard book lovers (and I suspect there are many of us), nothing will ever
even come close to replacing a good book, regardless of severe droughts or
economic downturns.
Tom Ogren
tloallergyfree@earthlink.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Bush" <genebush@otherside.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] gardening book sales


> Hello Sharon,
>     I find your message very interesting. Perhaps I am the other
side......
> I have a wall of gardening references and have a list of those I wish to
> purchase over this winter. Can not imagine life without my garden books.
>     Alpine Plants of North America was just released. Waiting for
Gussman's
> Arisaema book, hopefully by the last of October. Should have ordered the
one
> on North American bulbs last year, but will likely get to it this winter.
> Last year I ordered gardening books for my wife's Christmas.
>     Not only the new... a friend called a week or so ago wanting to know
if
> I would be interested in their library of gardening books. I have two
large
> boxes of books on the floor now, going through them. Publish dates from
> about 1902 to fairly recent. Lots of state wildflower guides from around
the
> Eastern US, a few from the West. Absolute gold if you write about the
native
> plants, or do your own catalog each year. A signed copy of  Mathew's
> Hellebores was in the box... out of print and the best information on
> hellebores out there. The old b&w drawings in the books have some hand
> coloring. Hand colored can make great material for framing, the old line
> drawings can be used in my b&w catalog.
>     I would hate to go through a winter without a new hard copy book, a
cup
> of hot tea and a few premium chocolates. One must live, after all.
>     Gene E. Bush
> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
> www.munchkinnursery.com
> genebush@munchkinnursery.com
> Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana
> ----- Original Message -----
> > I almost NEVER buy gardening books. I am much more into 'doing' than
> > 'reading about' gardening. If I do buy something, it has to be
absolutely
> > technical, or mind-blowingly beautiful, and it has to tell me something
I
> > don't know. Then again, if I really want to know something technical, I
> > could just go into Google search engine and probably find the
information
> I
> > want that is absolutely current.
> >
> >snip...
> > The only other gardening book I can think of that really interests me at
> > the moment is full of old-fashioned watercolour plates. But that is just
> > for looking at.
> >
> > I suppose as gardeners mature, they want to garden rather than dream
about
> > gardening or look at pictures of other people's gardens.
> >
> > What about in Britain, where gardening has been going on for so much
> > longer? Any comments about the book situation there?
> >
> > My understanding is that Thomas Hobbe's book - Shocking Beauty, has done
> > very well, especially in the West, where Thomas is well-known. It is an
> > outrageous book, full of excess, lushness, sensuality - it is downright
> > sinful, it's so absolutely over-the-top gorgeous. (I didn't buy it...)
> >
> > So, I guess "shocking" gardening books still sell, and technical ones.
I'd
> > be interested to know how books like the Sunset Gardening Book (a bit of
a
> > bible) is doing re: sales. Would anyone have this kind of information?
How
> > well technical books are doing? As well, that wonderful Reader's Digest
> > Encyclopedia of plants - anyone have an idea?
> > Sharon H. Hanna
> > Writer & Urban Agriculturist
> > (604) 736 1889
>
>
>
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