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Vegetables Love Flowers

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This is a book you won't put away if you're a gardener and will visit as a reference book again and again. It's filled with tips and helpful information all coming from experience.

I loved the photos, amazing and beautiful.One of the best gardening book I have read. If you like to read reference books with pretty page designs this book is such an eye candy with both amazing pictures and nice but not overwhelming embellishing illustrations.

I would recommend this to anyone who is trying to grow their own vegetables, organise their garden, trying to grow and handle flowers and plants, and understand the plants in their gardens and how they will/might live and effect each other, how different plants are affected by seasons etc. It has also lots more like arrangements of floral bouquets, how different animals interact with plants. Packed with useful information and definitely a must-visit for ambitious newbie gardeners.

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I received a free copy of Vegetables Love Flowers by Lisa Mason Ziegler in exchange for an honest review. This work contains many beautiful photographs. The subject matter promotes the growing of flowers in your vegetable garden to attract beneficial insects to pollinate blooms and to prey on harmful insects. The author also suggests techniques for attracting birds to keep harmful insect populations down for keeping the birds from causing harm to your garden. The book provides further advice on how to create habitats attractive to reptiles. The author further emphasizes timely planting, mulching, and using protective coverings. This book does not discuss the insecticide properties of specific plants.

It is a beautiful, easily readable book with what appears to be sound advice.

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Very informative book on the balance to be tipped in your favor growing vegetables alongside flowers. Very good tips on the timing and planting of your garden to help negate the need for harmful pesticides. Since most of us are clear on the benefits of organically growing foods but maybe unsure how, this is a helpful guide for just that benefit alone. As a bonus you will get time learned tips and guides to incorporating not only flowers that will provide beautiful bouquets for your home, but living with nature and encouraging it to help you in your garden. More than the title reflects, and worth a read.

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Just Brilliant! Vegetables Love Flowersby Lisa Mason Ziegler is. I found this wonderful book Just beautiful. friendly, very inspiring, well illustrated with so much information throughout it. The photo's were just amazing. Especially the dog Beri's photos.
This book is a must for any gardener or new gardener. Especially, for home gardeners and flower growers!!

I just loved this book I had to go and order this book from Amazon.

Big Thank you to Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group - Cool Springs Press for letting me review this wonderful book.
Big fat 5 Stars from me. 10/10 book xx

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I liked this book a lot, before everything, it was clear that the Ziegler created it from heart. Her passion for any kind of gardening passes through the pages, and it's not so common with all books. They can be quite boring, but Ziegler found an interesting angle together with good research and really good directions and suggestions.
The book starts with setting the ground that vegetables and flowers can co-exist, you don't need to do one or the other. Then, follows with lots of examples. She gives information about lots of possible flower species, how to care for them in different seasons, what are the problems you can face, etc. I found it really holistic and detailed.
There are lots of pictures, which I like to see. Also, in the end she gives lots of combinations of possible flowers.

All in all, really good book for what it's intended for. I would definitely recommend.

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