{"id":4695,"date":"2014-03-31T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T21:52:49","slug":"ruth-kassinger-book-giveawayi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2014\/03\/ruth-kassinger-book-giveawayi\/","title":{"rendered":"RUTH KASSINGER – BOOK GIVEAWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUTH KASSINGER’S NEWEST BOOK A GARDEN OF MARVELS – CURRENTLY ON MY BED TABLE, AND \nHERE, IN THE GREENHOUSE ON A RAINY DAY. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
It’s rare today, to find an author who will not only research each topic well, but who will bother to jump not on the Internet, but into a car or onto a plane, to go visit a nursery – to experience it, and then to write so thoughtfully about the entire experience. Ruth Kassinger is such an author. I’m not sure how to say this eloquently, but here’s the honest truth – her two recent books A GARDEN OF MARVELS and PARADISE UNDER GLASS sit next to my bed table ( well, sometimes on the floor – but hey, that’s where I keep my favorite books – you know, the ones I actually pick up and read most every night).<\/p>\n
\n***** The Winner of this book away is AmyO ( who, full disclosure, I know very well – but again, thanks to Random.com – is indeed the winner. Congratulations Amy!******<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nA GARDEN OF MARVELS is one on those rare books that I can read a few chapters of each night, whispering out loud “Oh wow” or,” Oh my God” and still jot notes down in my notebook, for a plant that I might need to find. It’s that sort of cross-over book, that I can read, appealing to my horticultural geekyness, and yet I can share it with a non-gardeners, who would find it equally as interesting.<\/p>\n
For what it’s worth, for book to remain on my side table for so long is perhaps the best praise I could ever bestow on a book (Really – that Real Estate is hot in my little world – a silly world which is jam packed with journals, iPads, laptops, lorazapam, empty glasses of wine, tv remotes, Candy Crush and bottles of Evian and an alarm clock.) I admit, I am a piece of work, but I do love my personal time when I can read – and there are far too many books that just remain in the bookcase.<\/p>\n
So, althgouh I am a bit ‘picky’ what I choose to read – any book that can hold my short attention span on the downside of Ritalin for weeks on end deserves praise. Ruth joins a handful of selected favorite authors in this private club of the bedside table including the likes of Wayne Winterrowd, Thalasa Cruso, Bernd Heinrich and Ruth Stout. Yes, all light reading, but totally an informed and immersive sort of reading environment – exactly what I crave.<\/p>\n
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I spent some time Saturday repotting seedling and orchids in the greenhouse, taking short breaks to read Ruth Kassingers latest book. Here, a Dendrobium linguiforme blooms on a post.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n