People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for GardeningA lively, offbeat tour through the landscape of colorful American gardeners, "People with Dirty Hands" is "one of the most amusing, eclectic gardening books in recent memory" ("Publishers Weekly"), "written with style, passion and readable, quirky nosiness" ("Chicago Sun Times"). |
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... Mike was wiping his forehead with a bandanna . He had had enough . We retreated to his office , an old but ... Mike could crack open his Diet Pepsi , though , a visitor arrived . The man at the door told us his name was Wamon Foster ...
... Mike was wiping his forehead with a bandanna . He had had enough . We retreated to his office , an old but ... Mike could crack open his Diet Pepsi , though , a visitor arrived . The man at the door told us his name was Wamon Foster ...
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... Mike nervous , but he didn't let that stop him . " I went out into the landscape with my wife , looking for plants we knew would survive , " Mike recalled . “ We found some perennials , things like dianthus and bouncing bet . But mainly ...
... Mike nervous , but he didn't let that stop him . " I went out into the landscape with my wife , looking for plants we knew would survive , " Mike recalled . “ We found some perennials , things like dianthus and bouncing bet . But mainly ...
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... Mike marveled , " they applied their common sense . " When no one could offer registered names for the old roses he found , Mike invented his own . He christened Red Burglar- a thorny climber that had actually trapped a thief trying to ...
... Mike marveled , " they applied their common sense . " When no one could offer registered names for the old roses he found , Mike invented his own . He christened Red Burglar- a thorny climber that had actually trapped a thief trying to ...
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