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    Big Dreams, Small Garden: A Guide to Creating Something Extraordinary in Your Ordinary Space

    Big Dreams, Small Garden: A Guide to Creating Something Extraordinary in Your Ordinary Space

    by J. Ronald Spencer


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      ISBN-13: 9781510709133
    • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
    • Publication date: 02/21/2017
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 224
    • Sales rank: 316,667
    • File size: 51 MB
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    Marianne Willburn is a garden columnist and master gardener with more than twenty years of experience in the garden. She holds a BSc from University College London and has won several national awards for her popular column and blog, The Small Town Gardener. A California native, she now lives with her husband and two children in the scenic—and highly convenient—wine region of Northern Virginia.

    Table of Contents

    Prologue ix

    Introduction xi

    Section 1 Visualize 1

    Chapter 1 Why Create Eden? 3

    Chapter 2 Recognizing and Accepting Limitations 17

    Chapter 3 Accessing Your Creativity 31

    Chapter 4 Planning Your Garden 43

    Section 2 Achieve 59

    Chapter 5 Tackling Garden Design 61

    Chapter 6 Recognizing Resources 79

    Chapter 7 Managing Your Garden Projects 93

    Chapter 8 Building Skills 105

    Section 3 Maintain 121

    Chapter 9 Striking a Balance 123

    Chapter 10 Making It Easier 135

    Chapter 11 Enlisting the Troops 147

    Section 4 Enjoy 161

    Chapter 12 Living in the Eden You Have Created 163

    Chapter 13 Reaching Out and Getting Better 173

    Chapter 14 Cultivating a Spirit of Contentment 183

    Epilogue 195

    Works Cited 196

    Recommended Books 197

    Acknowledgments 198

    Worksheets 200

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    "There is something in this book for everyone, from my daughters needing some hand-holding to people like myself, who can always learn from [Marianne's] expertise, as well as the advice of 'the pros.'" —Allan M. Armitage, professor emeritus of horticulture, University of Georgia

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    Creating a spectacular garden is challenging when you thought you'd be living somewhere else by now. How do passionate gardeners struggling with limited resources manage to put aside feelings of inadequacy and envy and begin to create an oasis in the midst of numerous obstacles? Why should they even try?

    In her debut book, Big Dreams, Small Garden, columnist and blogger Marianne Willburn presents a comprehensive step-by-step plan for creating an ideal garden in less-than-ideal circumstances—encouraging the discouraged to pick up their trowels, put on their gloves, and get on with it.

    With humor and irreverence, she painlessly guides readers to make a deeper connection with the places they call home, letting go of limiting emotions and embracing a new perspective, and in doing so, makes a case for one of the longest relationships in human history—that of man’s relationship with the soil.

    Big Dreams, Small Garden is an informative, often lighthearted look at coming to terms with your space, embracing your space, and miraculously falling in love. It cannot fail to appeal to a generation that is once again returning to the land only to find that it is further and further out of reach.

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