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The Garden in Every Sense and Season, Gardening to Awaken Your Five Senses, Tovah Martin

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The Garden in Every Sense and Season

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Tovah Martin

Gardening to Awaken Your Five Senses

"Reminds us that the best way to get to know a garden is through our senses." -- Michelle Slatalla, Gardenista So much of gardening is focused on the long list of chores -- the weeding, the planting, and the pruning. But what about the joy a garden can provide? In The Garden in Every Sense and Season , Tovah Martin mindfully explores the sensory delights her own garden and discovers the pleasures that can be find in focusing on sight, smell, sound, touch, and taste. In 100 evocative essays, Martin shares sage garden advice, offers intimate reflections on her own garden, and urges gardeners to inhale, savor, and become more attuned with their gardens. Packed with lush color photographs, The Garden in Every Sense and Season will help gardeners grow a bounty of gratitude

Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- Introduction: Coming to My Senses -- Spring -- Sight -- Spring Green -- Not-So-Mellow Yellows -- Spireas: Great Balls of Fire -- True Blue -- Smell -- Earth -- Bury Your Nose -- Daffodils -- Tarts of Spring -- Lilacs -- Sound -- Jeepers Peepers -- Such a Tweet -- The Rhythm Section -- Touch -- Hands Down -- Hand Sown -- Love Hurts -- Support Tactics -- Entry-Level Maneuvers -- The Untouchables -- Taste -- Asparagus -- Lettuce Lust -- Pecking Order -- Summer -- Sight -- Social Butterflies -- Hot Colors -- Accidents on Purpose -- The Sky is the Limit -- The Whites of Their Eyes -- Beyond Scarborough Fair -- Smell -- A Rosy Future -- Rue the Day -- Sweet Peas -- Night Moves -- Submersion -- Sound -- The Daily Buzz -- Tweets -- Stormy Weather -- A Little Night Music -- Touch -- Tug of War -- Love Shouldnâ t Hurt -- Pace Yourself -- Sinking In -- Taste -- You Say Tomato -- Berry Tantalizing -- Lettuce Stand-Ins -- Magic Beans -- Autumn -- Sight -- Blades of Grass -- Taking Leave of Your Senses -- The Blues -- Gone to Seed -- Brown is Beautiful -- Smell -- Grape Nuts -- Blowing in the Wind -- Deerly Departed -- Sound -- Not Counting Crows -- Keeping the Garden Humming -- Crunch Time -- Touch -- Get a Grip -- Underground Assets -- Thorny Subjects -- Taste -- Just Peachy -- Carrot Gold -- Cabbages and Kings -- The Late Show -- Winter -- Sight -- Sparkle -- Telltale Signs -- The Shape of Things -- Windowsill Dressing -- Smell -- Cold Hard Facts -- Breathing In -- Freesias -- Hyacinths -- Sound -- The Sound of Silence -- Things That Go Boom in the Night -- Drip -- Touch -- Bogarting Sunbeams -- Reach Out and Touch a Leaf -- Taste -- Citrus -- All That Glitters -- Dining on the Fly -- Finale: Forcing the Issue -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Authors -- Copyright -- Dedication

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