Member: Corkster

Wow!! Your iceberg is much bigger than mine. I only have 42 apple boxes full of books with no shelves to put them on. I think your wife is a saint! My husband is not a fan of my book collection. Someday I will have my very own library.
P.S. I just ordered 2 more books from ABE--The Flower Garden Day by Day and
From A New Garden, both by Mrs. Francis King.

posted by rosagallica at 6:37 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2010

Hi, you a wonderful collection of gardening books. Every time I add to my collection your name pops up. So far we have 55 books in common but I have a lot more to add. So far it's just the tip of the iceberg! Rosagallica AKA dottie

posted by rosagallica at 11:47 am (EST) on Mar 2, 2010

Thanks for the heads up on Raymond Sutton - I see some Jekyll that would be lovely to have and a couple Mrs Francis King that 'belong' in my collection. Are there other places near there that could be combined on a trip?
The internet is great for knowing prices and for knowing which shops to make an effort to visit, but like you, there is no substitute for holding a book in your hands before buying. And for smelling the bookshop. It would take only a few weeks to complete the 500 titles remaining on my list using the internet and a credit card, but what's the point of that? And what would I do next? And why would I bother visiting my children (Boston, San Francisco and San Diego) if there weren't bookshop visits on the agenda?

posted by WashingtonAveBooks at 3:52 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2009

Books for Serious gardeners and excellant reading books on gardening For those who don't want to waste time(separate the men from the boys sort of thing)
1.Woodland Plants and Sun Lovers Bawden
2.Garden Shrubs and their Histories Coats
3.Rock Garden and Alpine Plants Correvon
4.Garden Friends and Foes Headstrom
5.Cuttings from a Rock Garden Foster
6.Penelope Hobhouse
7.Francis Perry
8.Old Time Gardens Alice Morse Earle
9.Best Borders Lord
10.Margery Fish (All her Books)
11.My Garden Comes Of Age Cummins
12.Town Gardens Robert Pearson
13.Norvell Gillespie
14.Phebe Westcott Humphreys
15.Reading the Landscape Wafts
16.Francis Theodora Parson
17.Studies in Gardening A Clifton Brock
18.Growing Woodland Plants Clarence and Eleanor Birdeye
19.A Botanist's Garden Raven
20.Elsa Rehmann
21.Wily Violets and Underground Orchids (Revelations of a Botanist) Bernhardt
22.The Art of Planting Verey
23.American Mixed Border Ann Lovejoy
24.Plant Studies Coulter
25.Backyard Exploration Howes
26.The Unconventional Garden Sir Arthur Hort (More Later)

posted by Corkster at 5:17 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2009