Book Title Ideas

16 years ago

I am composing a book on stand out perennials that not only perform well in the garden, but provide year round interest in such attributes as foliage color, bloom interest, texture, and diversity of use in the garden. I will focus on the plant info, companion plants, etc. Plus provide tip and tidbits of years of hands on gardening expertise .

Thank you for your feed back. What do you look for in a good gardening book?

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bullthistle
16 years ago
Information like the link below and how to best propagate.

http://www.perennials.com/results.html?searchmargin=fcpurple%7CPurple

Here is a link that might be useful: Propagating Perennials
kimpa zone 9b N. Florida.
16 years ago
How plant will respond to pinching or cutting back, when to divide, does it need staking. And yes, how to propagate is very interesting to me. I like detailed information. That is what makes me buy a book. Since plants respond differently throughout the country, I like books specific to my region. Best of luck!
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This lack of a title will slowly drive me nuts *g*... FWIW, here's the plot as I remember it: --------------MAJOR SPOILERS! --------- `` `` `` `` `` `` `` Heroine somehow winds up with Raven King (I don't remember her falling asleep, but I do vaguely recall she was against the idea initially). Raven King seduces her, they fall in love, and go off to live in a huge black stone castle, I think, in Wales. Raven King has an unhinged and dangerously jealous brother who does something nasty to him and the Heroine, I can't recall just what, but she eventually forgives him (stupid move on her part). When she finds out she's pregnant, and while Raven King is off doing something or other, she goes to the rotten brother to make a peace offering and try to bring the brothers back together. Evil brother promptly sells her into slavery and tells the RK she's dead or run off. She's sold to a noble family far away consisting of an older father and a horrible son who has two wife/concubines but he's annoyed that he's not fathered any children with them. As Heroine is very pregnant by the time she arrives here, he decides she'll be his, because obviously she can breed. She in turn questions the ill-treated wife/concubines and learns the horrible son had mumps as a teenager. Because of her knowledge of medicine, she tells him he's sterile, which angers him further. Older dad steps in and decides Heroine should belong to him instead. Son nurses deep rage. She has her baby (the Raven King's son) and she and the older man slowly come to care for each other. Heroine becomes the healer in the castle. She eventually bears a daughter for her new husband. In the meantime, the RK finally figures out she might still be alive and poses as a troubadour to get into the nobleman's castle. This part is hazy at best, but I think he tricks the two men into fighting and something happens to the father. The Heroine is then forced by the nasty son to be the castle whore and is offered to the troubadour (the RK is disguised as a really yucky guy). Lucky for her, it's her own true love, and everything works out. I believe she becomes pregnant again, but they are separated again. Somehow they escape and make it back separately to the RK's castle, but while he's turned into a raven one of his own men accidentally shoots him down and he dies. She's left with three children and his castle and I really don't remember what happens to the evil brother. Finally, in the last chapter, fast forward 500 years or so to two sedate, proper, Regency-era lovers who are taking a sedate and proper walking tour and come across the ruins of the RK's castle. The reincarnated Heroine somehow knows how to climb the barely discernible stairs hewn in the rock and talks about which rooms were where in the castle. The Hero (whose name, for who knows what reason I clearly remember as being Tom -- would that the author and title had made the same...
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Thanks for the info ci. I expect you know that the royal family of the Netherlands also escaped to England for a time before settling in Ottawa. When they returned home they gave a gift of millions of tulip bulbs to the Canadian people of that city as a 'Thank you'. And during WW1 the Belgium royal family lived in London . . . and their daughter Princess Marie José became a pupil at the school I much later attended (as the nuns never failed to remind us) she went on to an 'arranged marriage' with Umberto of Italy and was queen for a few weeks before the Italians kicked him out. The Norwegian people still donate a huge Christmas tree each year which stands in London's Trafalgar Square in thanks for their time in England. I don't know of any book on the subject; it would be worth looking in to. Belgium Royals
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diggingthedirt
16 years ago
Most important to me is that an author provide realistic and complete information about the real drawbacks of the plants. Glowing, idealized descriptions are available for free in catalogs, where all the plants are spectacular, completely adaptable to various difficult situations, and trouble-free.

It irks me no end to purchase a book that does not include information like susceptibility to pests and disease, reaction to less than ideal conditions, tendency to sprawl or spread ... you know what I mean. Nobody is perfect, and that goes for plants as well as people. A good gardening book delves into the flaws, not just the merits, of each perennial it covers.

Also, the photos should NOT be close-ups of the flowers, they should show what the plants actually look like. This kind of picture probably does not sell books, at least not as well as lovely, artistic flower photos do, but that's what gardeners are interested in.

Thanks for asking, and good luck with the book.
bubba62
16 years ago
Sounds like the book you're all after is already in print - "The Well Tended Perennial Garden" by Tracy Disabato-Aust. She has a new book out called "The Well Tended Mixed Border", I think; I'm looking forward to reading that, as well.
mxk3 z5b_MI
16 years ago
Agree with diggingthedirt!!!
ei_ei_o
16 years ago
Photos of the progression of the plant through its season would be most helpful and I don't think I have ever seen that done in a book. Close up photos (if used) should be accompanied by a head-to-toe shot of the plant.

Good luck.
momamamo
16 years ago
I like the ideas already suggested. I favor multiple photos of plants: 1-closeup image; 2-how the entire plant looks at maturity, hopefully among other perennials to inspire me! I'd also want to know how many plants are needed to fill a certain sized spot. Is it short- or long-lived? What is the duration of bloom? How does the foliage at the base of the plant behave: is it thick, therefore acting as a good backdrop for shorter plants, or is it more weedy or rangy? How does the plant respond to wet weather? Maureen
Donna
16 years ago
Southern gardeners need to know about heat tolerance even more than about cold hardiness. I wholeheartedly agree with the pleas for full-plant pictures. I want to know the form the plant takes when it is not in bloom, since that's what I have to work with for the longest part of its residence in my garden. I would also like close-ups of the foliage, as well as the flower. I have come to be very suspicious of plant pictures in catalogs that show the bloom and absolutely nothing else. It leads me to believe that the bloom is absolutely all the plant has to offer.
We don't want much, do we? :)

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