The Artful Avocado: A Delightful and Definitive Handbook for the Gardner with an Indoor Specialty

by John Canaday

The book dedicated to all those people who yearn to grow an avocado bush indoors but think they can't.

79 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[Bill Peake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Delightful book born of NYT article about growing avocados indoors. Homy illustrations guide the reader through the process! In a meaningful overloaded world here is a long desired not of whimsy that will green up a home- delighting children and thrilling the rest of us!

[Muriah · Rating 4 out of 5]

🥑 I'm ready to turn my all avocados into guacamole and all the pits into lush plants! Really funny and entertaining quick read. Best gardening book I have ever read.


Oct 2024: from a free library in Connecticut

[Karen JEC · Rating 4 out of 5]

This author is just so flippant and flowery with his words that I couldn't help but laugh my way through the entire book. What a lovely little gem!

Favourite quotes:
"Sometimes now on nights when the city has been too much with me, I get a pillow and lie on my back on the floor looking up into the avocado leaves. That way, you can almost imagine you are in some delightful verdant spot. Which is why city people grow plants in captivity." - p.23

"But the avocado picks and chooses without much regard as to how you've tried to direct it. To make up for this, there is a fascination it watching it decide what shape it wants to take... One nice thing about avocados is they never harbor a grudge." - p.54/56