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Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Garden Renovation by Bobbie Schwartz

As a gardener and landscape designer, the author's home featured is absolutely beautiful, rich in colours and history. This book includes many tips from how to design your dream garden to which plants to use and flowers to grow the book has tips about how to nurture soil, weed keeping, selecting ornaments for areas as well as tips for year round keep.

The book shows that any small space can be transformed into a flourished area to bring joy to everyone who come across it and will be a great help working on a new area design and is a guaranteed bible on recreating a plain area into a tranquil or vibrant area to enjoy!

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Friday, 3 April 2020

Secret Houses Of The Cotswolds by Jeremy Musson

Large homes have always been interesting to me alike museums too, in this guide to some of the hidden homes in the Cotswolds, we learn years of history the homes hold and continue to honour. Whether it's finding dated furniture to upkeep the old style way of the house or just keeping the original features of the house in great condition, the owners allow us in to their lives by sharing why they care and love their homes so much.

Each home also is accompanied by a large, vast area of garden complete with many plants, features such as statues or possibly stables for owners horses as well as some having moat like water surrounding them giving the already large manor homes the essence of being castle like in their design.

Hugo Thomas has captured the houses vast size with clear photography throughout of the outsides and insides of each home we are invited to explore with crisp photography showing off the features throughout each area explored.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Saturday, 15 June 2019

RHS A Nation In Bloom by Matthew Biggs

In this book we get a great mixture of gorgeous photography and informative text about the history past to present about the RHS from set up to how it plans to do even more in the future.

Showing about gardening being therapeutic and great for everyone it encourages all ages to give it a go and shows how it unites communities and provides a fun way to meet others and tackle loneliness among other things.

I have to say since reading this book I plan to visit RHS Wisely and Rosemoor. I have visited the flower shows which feature in this book in a chapter too and it highlights the importance of expansion to be more inclusive to more areas of the country.
I'm off now to Gardner's World live now to enjoy the flower displays there too!

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Succulents by Robin Stockwell

Filled with history to inspiring growing plants at all, this book is beautiful with photographs that are high quality, rich with colours so vibrant you feel you're by the plants not just reading a book!

From pots, edgings, roof gardens and more we are shown that everywhere and anywhere can make way for a succulent or a few. There are plenty of tips and tricks to help get your own display started in many various forms you are sure to find inspiration for a modern, classic or own style succulent garden of some kind. There's even ideas for gifts, hair accessories along with funky indoor planter or outdoor hanging succulents too.

Complete with a guide to the various names along with pictures of the succulents you may come across, it is sure to teach you many things all in one handy book.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

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Goodreads Quotes

Eve beinguniquebeingme’s quotes

"You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes."— Rosemarie Urquico

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