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The Moonlit Garden
In The Moonlit Garden , Scott Ogden introduces readers to the wonder of the evening garden. Written with charm and elegance, this book will appeal to those whose gardens are a source of intellectual stimulation as well as physical beauty and repose.
- GenresGardening
152 pages, Hardcover
First published May 25, 1998
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August 27, 2021
Too wordy and too few pictures.
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November 27, 2011From the book jacket:
A new world awaits you...
As the sun sets, most of us abandon our gardens and return indoors until it rises again to light the brightly colored plants we have so carefully selected for our gardens. And as we sleep, a new world awakens beneath the moon, a world that few of us take the opportunity to enjoy. This nocturnal world is not the cold, dark place you might imagine, rather, it is a place of sweet scents, soothing sounds, and soft shadows. Hawkmoths flutter, quietly buzzing among the sweetly fragrant flowering tobacco as the moonbeams reflect both their silvery wings and the creamy white tubular blossoms. It is this peaceful world of oft-forgotten beauty that you will encounter in "The Moonlit Garden."
As gardening expert Scott Ogden walks you through this nocturnal kingdom, he brings it to life with his loving prose and offers advice on creating your own garden under the stars. Gardeners from the deserts to the mountains and the woodlands to the prairies will find ideas for developing the garden at night.
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That said, I live in the Midwest, and this isn't a good book for me. Ogden is a Southerner (Texas) and yammers on about his own garden a lot, or places he's seen. Not a lot of practical advice on planning a garden. If you like READING about gardening, there's a lot in here, he goes into detail about specific plants, but not where to get them, or how to care for them.
A new world awaits you...
As the sun sets, most of us abandon our gardens and return indoors until it rises again to light the brightly colored plants we have so carefully selected for our gardens. And as we sleep, a new world awakens beneath the moon, a world that few of us take the opportunity to enjoy. This nocturnal world is not the cold, dark place you might imagine, rather, it is a place of sweet scents, soothing sounds, and soft shadows. Hawkmoths flutter, quietly buzzing among the sweetly fragrant flowering tobacco as the moonbeams reflect both their silvery wings and the creamy white tubular blossoms. It is this peaceful world of oft-forgotten beauty that you will encounter in "The Moonlit Garden."
As gardening expert Scott Ogden walks you through this nocturnal kingdom, he brings it to life with his loving prose and offers advice on creating your own garden under the stars. Gardeners from the deserts to the mountains and the woodlands to the prairies will find ideas for developing the garden at night.
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That said, I live in the Midwest, and this isn't a good book for me. Ogden is a Southerner (Texas) and yammers on about his own garden a lot, or places he's seen. Not a lot of practical advice on planning a garden. If you like READING about gardening, there's a lot in here, he goes into detail about specific plants, but not where to get them, or how to care for them.
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