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Karen Hugg writes nonfiction and fiction inspired by plants. Her background is in horticulture and her passion is living green things. Her aim is to entertain and inspire readers. She's a certified ornamental horticulturalist and Master Pruner. She's also a graduate of the Goddard MFA program.

Her book, Leaf Your Troubles Behind: How to Destress and Grow Happiness Through Plants , explores how plants can help our mental health.

The Forgetting Flower takes readers to Paris. The literary mystery Song of the Tree Hollow brings the spooky woods of the Pacific Northwest to life. ...more

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	The Forgetting Flower really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Song of the Tree Hollow 3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction by Josh MacIvor-Andersen (Editor), Bill McKibben (Introduction), Renée E. D'Aoust (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Petals of Provence 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leaf Your Troubles Behind: How to Destress and Grow Happiness Through Plants 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul's Road: A Fiction Collection by Cody T. Luff (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sidney Williams (Goodreads Author), Deborah Grace Staley (Goodreads Author) 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harvesting the Sky 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pitkin Review, Spring 2010 by Kristen Stone (Goodreads Author), Sharon Cicilian (Editor in Chief), Sarah Shellow 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties by Walter Cummins (Editor), Karen Hugg (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Best Basic Gardening Tool Kit You Need

I started gardening with a very sad gardening tool kit. I used a rusty shovel, rickety rake, and a cheap trowel. While they served me well enough, I wish someone would have told me to save my money and buy fewer, higher quality tools. Here’s why. When you use a cheap tool, you waste time and put extra strain on your tendons. For instance, I used a hack saw to clumsily cut branches. Because of this

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Karen Hugg wrote a new blog post The Best Basic Gardening Tool Kit You Need I started gardening with a very sad gardening tool kit. I used a rusty shovel, rickety rake, and a cheap trowel. While they served me well enough, I w Read more of this blog post »
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With Leaf Your Troubles Behind, I hope to help you become happier. The science shows that plants can boost our mental health and do it quickly, so I've combined my almost two decades of experience as a professional gardener with the latest research t ...more
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Karen Hugg rated a book it was amazing Sacrifice (The Evolved Ones, #2) by Natasha Oliver (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
In Sacrifice, we find Rox in Singapore, reunited with her husband and kids and adjusting to the more typical kind of life she yearned for after being rescued from the Wonderland facility. So when Sam, Meita, Josh, Mika, and Katherine, all figures fro ...more
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Karen Hugg liked an answer from Elizabeth George: Are you working on another book in the Lynley series? I've read them all and am anxiously awaiting news of the next one. I'm working on Lynley #21 right now. Elizabeth George
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Karen Hugg liked an answer from Elizabeth George: Will you be writing number 20 in the Lynley series? Yes, I'm doing that right now. Elizabeth George
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“Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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