Books Popping Up at Homestead Gardens

 

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Support Garden Writers as well as Garden Centers at the "Books are Popping UP at Homestead Gardens" event.  Be sure to RSVP on the Facebook Page : Homestead Gardens  

Follow on Twitter :@homesteadgrdns

Hope to see you Tweeting from this event on the weekend!

Garden Problem Solver with Timber Press

This summer Timber Press is launching a campaign to help you with all your gardening issues as well as providing a fun giveaway.

 

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Timber Press as recently released several garden problem guides, including What’s Wrong with My Vegetable Garden?, Decoding Gardening Advice, What’s Wrong with My Plant?, and The Anxious Gardener’s Book of Answers. Don’t know where to go for advice? Let Timber Press help. The ardening authors are experts, and they are sharing their advice this summer in the Timber Press Garden Problem Solver promotion! The Timber Press GPS promotion will run until August, and each week they will be picking a reader-submitted question for their authors to answer. The person who asks the chosen question will receive one of our problem-solving books, and anyone that submits a question will be entered to win the grand prize: a brand new iPad. Readers just have to enter their question on the GPS landing page, which you can see here: http://www.timberpress.com/gps/

Be sure to follow Timberland Press on Twitter at : @timberpress 

The Language of Flowers

Tonight on #gardenchat Monday sheduled event we welcome Geri Laufer ( @gardengeri )

About Tonight's Topic By Geri Laufer: 

The Language of Flowers was used to convey messages without pen and paper. Every flower and herb has a meaning in the Language of Flowers. All of us know some of the meanings, for example, the strength of a mighty oak, or extending the olive branch for peace. Red Roses for Valentines means I love you.  Now realize ALL the flowers, herbs, trees, shrubs, many of the houseplants, etc. have floral symbolism attached. The Language of Flowers has a long history, and there were/are many books published on the topic in the 1800s and 1900s with glossaries of these meanings.  I did a lot of research and wrote my own book too. 

It's so fun to make and send your own floral message using garden flowers and herbs made into a tussie-mussie, a small bouquet of flowers and herbs where each has a meaning.  By choosing several of these, you can send a message! Write out the meanings on a card when you give a tussie-mussie as a gift to bride, graduate or new baby.  

Geri's book is out of print now, but check Amazon for the hardback: http://www.amazon.com/Tussie-Mussies-Victorian-Expressing-Yourself-Language/dp/1563051060/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326724749&sr=1-1 

 

paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Tussie-Mussies-Language-Geraldine-Adamich-Laufer/dp/0761120661

About Tonights Guest Host: 

Geri has gardened all her life from age 4 1/2 (her book, Tussie-Mussies, is dedicated to her Gardening Grandmother).  She earned Master of Science degree in Horticulture from Rutgers University

and was a Georgia Cooperative Extension Agent.  Geri was on the team that founded the Master Gardeners program in Georgia and  has taught 7 different courses in Environmental Horticulture for Gwinnett Tech.  

Follow Geri on Twitter at @gardengeri

This #herbchat administrator is the founding President of  the Chattahoochee Unit (Atlanta chapter) of the Herb Society of America.  Her home gardens have been on 2 National Garden Tours and 3 local, the gardens are in books and magazines and her 2-acre landscape garden in the 1990s was chosen "Best Garden in Georgia" in the Large Garden Category by the Federated Garden Clubs. Geri Laufer is a life member of Garden Writers Association and was the Public Relations Manager for the Atlanta Botanical Garden for 11 years.  Today Ms. Laufer  has her own public relations and social media firm for horticulture companies is called a "Floral Poet" in the Language of Flowers

Read more about Geri at :http://gardengeri.com

Tonight's Giveaway 

A lucky participant from tonight's #gardenchat is going to win a copy of Geri Laufer's book  

'Tussie-Mussies: The Victorian Art of Expressing Yourself in the Language of Flowers'.  

Monday 02/13 @gardengeriis donating 'Tussie-Mussies: The Victorian Art of Expressing Yourself in the Language of Flowers'.  Please stop by her site to view more about Geri. 



To qualify in this drawing that will take place on 02/13/2012 follow the easy steps below: 


1.)  Be sure to follow @TheGardenChat and @gardengeri and tweet out :  #LanguageofFlowers on #gardenchat tonight, Valentine's topic 9PM ET with @TheGardenChat and @gardengeri"

2.)  Comment on this blog and share hat your favorite flower is and how it speaks to you.

3.) Follow the #gardenchat tweets during Monday #gardenchat 02/13/2012  to see if your name is picked at 9:55 p.m. ET

4.) Name drawn at 9:55 p.m. ET must send shipping information to @theGardenchat or @BG_garden by Midnight02/13/2012.

* random.org is used to select the name from this blog post at 9:55 p.m. ET.  2012 @TheGardenChat is not responsible for the product being donated to this event.  Winner must message @TheGardenChat their shipping information by 02/13/2012  MIDNIGHT in order to receive this item.  IF we do not receive your shipping information at that time you are will forfeit the product.

Questions or Concerns ?  Please leave a comment on our blog post and we will respond as soon as possible.