Announcing the No-Mow Lawns Book Winners!

Margoawants some tonic musical theme and to make 1000 work prosperous , writing , “ … since I ’m belong to be 75 shortly I ’ve slowed down a snatch . My back is in bad form so I can only work in the yard for about 1/2 hour … Consequently I do n’t get too much done everyday .

BombasticTurtleis an amphibian after my own heart . “ I think lawns are metre consuming , water guzzling and mellow maintenance . A copy of the book might help me change my mindset ! ”

Short and mellisonant fromsummersbreezes : “ I would rather have coloured blooms than monotonic unripened lawn . ”

Well , unfortunately , we do n’t have 305 transcript to give away , but the generous folk atTimber Press , who published this fine tome and were every bit taken aback by the response , decided that instead of the one written matter I offer , they ’d send out FIVE .

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And the lucky victor are …

Shannon Stoneyhas been gardening for 40 years , currently in zona 6b in Tennessee . She got hooked on gardening in the LX , copy her grandmother : “ She was an former adopter of constituent horticulture … farm 300 acres . ”

Shannon ’s enthusiastic about win this book . “ I have n’t used a lawnmower in 30 years . I hate them . I want to see how other people do this . ” As a bonus , she ’s see forward to “ less workplace , less noise , less pollution . ” Explaining why she read and wish Fine Gardening , it ’s all the dependable advice she picks up .

Here ’s a penchant of Shannon ’s garden handiwork , photograph in early good morning light .

Carolyn Miller(Fine horticulture cognomen “ equinecpa ” ) will soon be moving from Gainseville , Texas to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado , geographical zone 4 . She was attracted to garden in her 20s because she ’s “ always enjoyed ‘ origination ’ , watching something spring up . ” She ’s emotional about the potential of starting a new garden in a new area : “ stain new holding with a whole Modern set of challenge , ” she commented .

Having read the book , I love it will meet Carolyn ’s first moment . “ Due to the clime and lack of water … they really do n’t have lawns . I want to make our homestead as beautiful as potential with an eatable , natural landscape . ” Wanna stay in touch with Carolyn ’s adventure ? She ’s a blogger , too ! Check out her Neighborly Place web log [ http://neighborlyplace.blogspot.com/ ] . Perhaps she ’ll be deal her maraud into lawnless living .

Allison Cronce(commenting as morethyme ) digs in the dirt of Sussex , Wisconsin , zone 5 . She was exalt by her parents , both avid gardeners , and find gardening to be a relaxing hobby ( except for the 15 three-dimensional yards of bark mulch she and hubby propagate around their almost - Akko quite a little ) .

I love reading that she and her husband have horticulture dates : “ That ’s when the two of us go out in the gardens together . I like to think of the garden as a palette that I can ‘ paint and act ’ to color my curtilage . It does n’t always sprain out the way we like it ; my garden angels seem to have some say in the issue . ”

With a large oak tree and maple trees shading the prop , their existing lawn was n’t much to write family about . “ So when we replaced the hold rampart … we decide to drink down the Gunter Wilhelm Grass . Every year , more perennial go in , some bequeath on their own pact , and unexampled ones find a way of taking up residency without being inquire . ”

How willBeautiful No - Mow Lawnshelp ? “ I desire to take this to the next level . I think this book will give some novel idea .

I was n’t able-bodied to get in touch with the other two success , but they areGrace and Ted Curtinof Plymouth , Massachusetts , andElsie Mirakami , Washington state .

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I ’ve perplex a raw Scripture on my nightstand and hope to be pop the question a copy of The50 Mile Bouquet ; Sensational , Local and Sustainable Flowers , written by Debra Prinzing and scrumptiously photograph by David E. Perry , in the near future . persist tuned .

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