Garden Lunacy: A Growing Concern
by Art Wolk
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Author: Art WolkEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-01
ISBN: 0972973036
Number of pages: 253
Publisher: AAB Book Publishing LLC
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Book Review: Very Funny
Summary: 5 Stars
Garden Lunacy is not a typical gardening book. The book is less about the plants, and more about the gardener, or as Art Wolk puts it 'the thing at the wooden end of the shovel'.
The name Art Wolk is perhaps familiar to many people, specifically those who attend the Philadelphia Flower Show. Art has won many Blue Ribbons at the show as well as Best in Show. However, he also has a very witty style of writing about his fellow gardening enthusiasts. Tales of travel problems in a late snowstorm with a car full of plants, an apartment overflowing with seedlings or plants, and a marijuana plant carefully being tended by a gardener in a public garden. These, and other logistical nightmares of the horticulturalist, fill the chapters. Of particular note is the area regarding a Gardener/Non-Gardener translation section that will help to clear up many of those misunderstood signals that pass between the two identities, not to mention bring a nod and a smile to many of us who have `been there, done that'. The book is indeed a wonderful remedy to help pass those rather tedious days of late winter when it is too early to dig, or the dog days of summer when it is too hot and humid to dig.
Summary of Garden Lunacy: A Growing Concern
Garden Lunacy: A Growing Concern is a dead-on, laugh-out-loud look at the world of gardening, especially the world between each gardener's ears. The author pokes fun at the way they think, their odd habits, skewed view of the universe, and their inevitable confrontations with what the author calls, the "other human sub-species," namely, non-gardeners. In a continuous stream of colorful scenes, you'll be taken into a world inhabited by gardeners of all levels, from non-gardening "gardeners" to eccentric, covetous, and compulsive gardeners.Most of all, you'll burst out laughing as Art Wolk shares his views on horticulture and describes his own oddball behavior as an award-winning writer, gardener, lecturer, photographer, and flower show exhibitor. From his vantage point as a lifelong gardener and horticultural voyeur, he gives gardeners an unforgettably accurate look at their domain.
Garden Lunacy is the perfect gift for gardeners of all levels of experience and looniness.
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