The Garden in Every Sense and Season

So much of gardening is focused on monthly checklists, seasonal to-do lists, and daily upkeep. But what about taking the time to truly enjoy the garden in every sense? The Garden in Every Sense and Season does just that. Beginning with the heady blooms of spring and closing with putting the garden to bed in winter, Tovah Martin mindfully explores her garden through smell, sound, touch, and taste—prompting you to plug in to your own landscape. Join her to explore the bounty that your garden offers. Learn to notice the smells spring’s daffodils, enhance your backyard so it is filled with summer’s tweets, see how you can make the various shades of autumn interplay, and taste winter’s juicy citrus grown indoors through 100 evocative essays. The Garden in Every Sense and Season urges gardeners to inhale, savor, and become attuned with their gardens.

Give Peace Lilies a Chance with Tovah Martin’s latest title: The Indestructible Houseplant:

Here’s proof that anyone can grow healthy houseplants. It all boils down to a simple set of skills and—here’s the crucial part—picking the right plants. Not only can these tough but handsome plants thrive in less-than-ideal conditions, but they are easy to find. You’ll learn how to pot, repot, water, and fertilize while picking up some great ideas for fun, funky containers. Get inspiration on how to display ordinary plants (no specialist nurseries necessary) to perk up a room and transform your windowsills. Life will be beautiful.

The Unexpected Houseplant

The Unexpected Houseplant isn't your typical, old-fashioned, dowdy houseplant book. Martin's approach is revolutionary—picture brilliant spring bulbs by the bed, lush perennials brought in from the garden, quirky succulents in the kitchen, even flowering vines and small trees growing beside an easy chair. Along with loads of visual inspiration, readers will learn how to make unusual selections, where to best position plants in the home, and valuable tips on watering, feeding, grooming, pruning, and troubleshooting, season by season.

Comprehensive, up-to-the-minute, and illustrated with gorgeous photography by Kindra Clineff, The Unexpected Houseplant is for beginners, green thumbs, decorators, and anyone who wants to infuse a bit of surprising green into their décor.

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The New Terrarium

If you live in the city but want to be close to nature, you need a terrarium. If you find yourself in the country but with no time to step outdoors, you need a terrarium. If you are confined to an office fifty hours a week, a terrarium can be your connection with nature. And if your home décor needs a little extra green, try a terrarium. Quite simply, terrariums are the solution for bringing all the benefits of botany and you together.

In The New Terrarium (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc. 2009), Tovah Martin presents the whimsical yet practical world of gardening under glass – a no-fuss way to bring snippets of nature indoors and intimate. When encased in glass, plants thrive with almost no help from outside their little enclosed world. With the aid of a terrarium, you can host nature almost anywhere – in your parched apartment or your dim cubicle. Whether you are a summer gardener or city-dwelling nature lover, The New Terrarium will spark your creativity and turn your world green year around.

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Tasha Tudor's Garden

Writer and illustrator of more than 75 beloved children's books, Tasha Tudor lives a 19th-century lifestyle in the gardens surrounding her hand-hewn house. In this gorgeous book, garden writer Tovah Martin and photographer Richard Brown take readers into the magical gardens called "Paradise"--and behind the scenes. Photographs and watercolors throughout.


View from a Sketchbook

In this open sketchbook, Dutch artist and naturalist Bastin invites readers on a nature walk through the wet, dark woods of her native Holland; the hardy, waving grasses of the Missouri prairie she purchased and restored; and the shell-strewn shores of Grand Cayman island where she often retreats. Best known in the U.S. for her line of Hallmark greeting cards of "uncannily lifelike birds, and animals, and flowers, suffused with color," she reveals her passion for preserving nature’s splendor through conversations with garden writer Martin, personal interjections highlighted in sidebars and a rich collection of agreeable watercolors. The brief, illustrated chapters—featuring her herb garden, her bird feeders, her goose pond, etc.—are grouped according to the four seasons and offer a delightful annual tour of the natural world. 100 watercolor illustrations.


A Time to Blossom

The author and photographer of the classic Tasha Tudor's Garden deliver this intimate celebration of the gardening rites and rituals that mark not only the passage of the seasons but the passage of the years as they are shared with successive generations. In A Time to Blossom, Tovah Martin commemorates with words -- while Richard Brown illustrates with lush photographs -- the joys and discoveries of the horticultural year as experienced by a child.


Tasha Tudor's Heirloom Crafts

In this magical sequel to Tasha Tudor's Garden, Martin and Brown revisit America's beloved children's book illustrator, taking readers inside Corgi Cottage to watch Tasha craft items that are an integral part of her legendary 19th-century lifestyle. 100 color photos.

Garden Whimsy

Tovah Martin and Brown (Tasha Tudor's Garden) take a walk on the lighter side of horticulture. Postulating that "gardeners suffer from a tendency to take themselves too seriously," the pair drop in on 10 practitioners of the craft who have learned to cut loose a little. Clearly inspired by their subjects (quirky green thumbs who leaven their compost with irreverent wit and creative flair), the authors chronicle found art and impertinent plant pairings.



Old-Fashioned Flowers

Once-forgotten flowers and the stories behind scores of captivating plants from the past are rediscovered in this fully illustrated volume. Alternately admired and considered out of fashion, these enchanting blossoms have been the bedrock of spectacular bouquets and have provided medicine and food throughout the centuries. This book delves into the history of classic bulbs, ravishing old-garden roses, antique annuals and perennials, heirloom houseplants, and vintage vines. Tips on how to create period floral arrangements and an extensive list of hard-to-find heirloom suppliers make it easy to reintroduce these beloved garden species into a contemporary setting. Keeping vintage flowers available and teaching readers how to grow these heirlooms -- this book ensures that neither they and nor their fabulous history will disappear.