Discuss "Orchid Muse" with the Washington Gardener Magazine Garden Book Club

UPDATE: Exciting news! Author Erica Hannickel will be joining us for the book discussion.

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be discussing: 

Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3Yoo42b

or at our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/a/79479/9780393867282

In the December 2022 issue of Washington Gardener Magazine, reviewer Jim Dronenburg wrote, "... even if you never intend to have, wear, or grow an orchid, it is a fascinating read." 

Our Fall 2023 club meeting will be on Thursday, November 30 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom. 

To join us, register here: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkc-ygrzMiH9z6ekl2ip3wn8PLuyFrG9r9

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom and is free and open to all. We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

Want to read ahead? The next book club selections are

• Winter 2023/24 - American Roots by Nick McCullough, Allison McCullough, and Teresa Woodard

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Discuss "A Way to Garden" with the Washington Gardener Magazine Garden Book Club

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be discussing: 

A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season by Margaret Roach 

NOTE: We will be discussing the 2019 updated edition.

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3qbBku3

or at our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/a/79479/9781604698770

“A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review

Our Summer 2023 club meeting will be on Thursday, August 10 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom. 

To join us, register here: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqf-GgrDouHNazm_h-eaAAxP2EDXkZ7EDg

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom and is free and open to all. We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

Want to read ahead? The next book club selections are

• Fall 2023 - Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel
• Winter 2023/24 - American Roots by Nick McCullough, Allison McCullough, and Teresa Woodard

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Discuss "The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms" with the Washington Gardener Magazine Garden Book Club

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be reading: 

The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/41LWOfk

"The incredible—and improbable—story of how an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry blossoms from extinction...As much a history of the cherry blossom in Japan as it is the story of one remarkable man, The Sakura Obsession follows the flower from its significance as a symbol of the imperial court, through the dark days of the Second World War, and up to the present-day worldwide fascination with this iconic blossom.." -Amazon.com

Our Spring 2023 club meeting will be on Thursday, April 27 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom.
To join us, register here: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtceioqz8oHtZ9PiA4EzcsktFCm8xcGbQ9

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom and is free and open to all. We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

Want to read ahead? The next book club selections are:

• Summer 2023 - A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season
  by Margaret Roach 

• Fall 2023 - Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel

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Discuss "The Earth in Her Hands" with the Washington Gardener Magazine Garden Book Club

 For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be reading: 

The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants by Jennifer Jewell

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3Y8nxRE

or at our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/a/79479/9781604699029

"In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell introduces 75 inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany, floral design, landscape architecture, farming, herbalism, and food justice, these influencers are creating change from the ground up." -Amazon.com

Our Winter 2023 club meeting will be on Thursday, February 9 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom. To join us, register here: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkdOuspzwtHdzK8_VkBgXSThn6rZ5IguKQ 

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom and is free and open to all. We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

Want to read ahead? The next book club selections are:

• Spring 2023 - The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe

• Summer 2023 - A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season
  by Margaret Roach 

• Fall 2023 - Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel

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Discuss "One Man's Garden" with the Washington Gardener Magazine Garden Book Club

(This post include links to Amazon.com and BookShop.org for ordering them. Washington Gardener Magazine may receive a few cents from each order placed after you click on these links.)

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be discussing One Man's Garden by Henry Mitchell.

"Henry Mitchell, who died in November 1993, was one of America's most beloved garden writers. He was especially famous for his weekly "Earthman" columns in the Washington Post."

We will also be picking books for our 2023 garden book club meetings. Please be prepared to share your suggestions!

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3SGmsNo

or at our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/a/79479/9780395957691

Our Fall 2022 club meeting will be on Thursday, November 17 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom.
To join us, register here: 

 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoduCspjwoHdXFr5fyvwqO8548SM9iCic8

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom and is free and open to all. We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

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Discuss "Garden Variety" with the Washington Gardener Magazine Garden Book Club

This post include links to Amazon.com and BookShop.org for ordering them. Washington Gardener Magazine may receive a few cents from each order placed after you click on these links.

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be reading Garden Variety by Christy Wilhelmi.

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/31jvN8V

or at our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/a/79479/9780063113480

Reviewer Beth Py-Lieberman wrote, "The tension between Lizzie and Jared kicks off the fast-moving romp of garden-variety tales and adventures in Christy Wilhelmi’s first novel. The award-winning garden guru, who is the founder of the online Gardennerd and the author of Gardening for Geeks, among other resource-rich videos and podcasts, had long envisioned the story of Lizzie, Jared, and the other gardeners at Vista Mar as a screenplay before her friends convinced her that she’d written a novel. For anyone who has ever tried to herd a bunch of garden nerds into a community of hummingbird harmony in the face of relentless summer heat, fast-growing weeds, cisterns run dry, veggie vandalism, and hot-tempered border disputes, Garden Variety makes for a hilariously good read."

 

Our Summer 2022 club meeting will be on Thursday, August 25 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom. To join us, register here: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlcuqprD4jEtBQCPV_EZL8MMC7hsSyUXFu 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom and is free and open to all. We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

Want to read ahead? The next book club selections are:

• Fall 2022 - One Man's Garden by Henry Mitchell

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Discuss "A History of Zinnias" with the Washington Gardener Magazine Garden Book Club

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be reading: 

A History of Zinnias: Flower for the Ages by Eric Grissell

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3zh8vx3

or at our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/a/79479/9781557539069

"The deep and exciting history of garden zinnias pieces together a tale involving Aztecs, Spanish conquistadors, people of faith, people of medicine, explorers, scientists, writers, botanists, painters, and gardeners. The trail leads from the halls of Moctezuma to a cliff-diving prime minister; from Handel, Mozart, and Rossini to Gilbert and Sullivan; from a little-known confession by Benjamin Franklin to a controversy raised by Charles Darwin; from Emily Dickinson, who writes of death and zinnias, to a twenty-year-old woman who writes of reanimated corpses; and from a scissor-wielding septuagenarian who painted with bits of paper to the “Black Grandma Moses” who painted zinnias and inspired the opera Zinnias." --Amazon.com

Our Spring 2022 club meeting will be on Thursday, June 9 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom. To join us, register here: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tf-qqpj4sGdLDCxsrOa36d7MazNmTAxyW 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom and is free and open to all. We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

Want to read ahead? The next book club selections are:

• Summer 2022 - Garden Variety by Christy Wilhelmi

• Fall 2022 - One Man's Garden by Henry Mitchell & Set 2023 Selections

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Discuss "The Well-Gardened Mind" with the Washington Gardener Magazine Garden Book Club

 For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be reading: 

The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart-Smith

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3HxDUhk

or at our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/a/79479/9781476794464

"The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the 'real' life that lies outside. But when we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life in nature through which destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal. Gardening is one of the quintessential nurturing activities and yet we understand so little about it. The Well-Gardened Mind provides a new perspective on the power of gardening to change people's lives. Here, Sue Stuart-Smith investigates the many ways in which mind and garden can interact and explores how the process of tending a plot can be a way of sustaining an innermost self." --Amazon.com

Our Winter 2022 club meeting will be on Thursday, February 24 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom. To join us, register here: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtduurpjwvH9M4PaEpk21e421SriSQD3ky

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom and is free and open to all. We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

Want to read ahead? The next book club selections are:

• Spring 2022 - A History of Zinnias: Flower for the Ages by Eric Grissell

• Summer 2022 - Garden Variety by Christy Wilhelmi

• Fall 2022 - One Man's Garden by Henry Mitchell

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Discuss The Revolutionary Genius of Plants with the Garden Book Club

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be discussing The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso.

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link - https://amzn.to/2WdiGDn.

We will also be choosing our 2022 garden book club selections at this meeting so bring your ideas and suggestions! To see a list of all the garden books we have previously discussed in this group, go to Garden Book Club Selections.

Our Fall 2021 club meeting will be on Thursday, November 18 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom.

Please register at -

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtdO-qqDgrH9aMKM-GCrsnpbYt1diG3CCz 

to have the Zoom link sent to you. 

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club is free and open to all. We meet quarterly on a weekday evening online (usually near a metro-accessible location in the DC-area when COVID is not a factor). We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

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Summer Garden Book Club Selection: American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be discussing American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson.

"One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic's first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland by 1810. 'Where others saw real estate and power, Hosack saw the landscape as a pharmacopoeia able to bring medicine into the modern age' (Eric W. Sanderson, author of Mannahatta). What remains today of America's first botanical garden lies in the heart of midtown, buried beneath Rockefeller Center."

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link - https://amzn.to/38LMppD.

Our Summer 2021 club meeting will be on Thursday, July 15 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom.

Please register at -

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvcuygrz8jGtOMTJL6gnbXgZ5gGB8c2o61

to have the Zoom link sent to you. 

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club is free and open to all. We meet quarterly on a weekday evening usually near a metro-accessible location in the DC-area (when COVID is not a factor). We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

Want to read ahead? The next book club selections are:

• Fall 2021 - The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso

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Discuss The Last Garden in England with the Garden Book Club

 

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be reading The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly.

"Three women across time are connected by a garden in Kelly’s enjoyable and richly detailed latest…Kelly balances Emma’s detective work reviewing papers and records found in the house with Venetia’s slow-burn tragedy and the twist that defines Beth’s relationship to the gardens. Kelly easily delivers everything her fans will expect.”—Publishers Weekly

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link - https://amzn.to/2MgFvRx.

Our Spring 2021 club meeting will be on Thursday, April 29 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom.

Please RSVP to washingtongardenermagazine (at) gmail.com to have the Zoom link sent to you. 

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club is free and open to all. We meet quarterly on a weekday evening usually near a metro-accessible location in the DC-area (when COVID is not a factor). We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

Want to read ahead? The next book club selections are:

• Summer 2021 - American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson

• Fall 2021 - The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso

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Discuss A Gentle Plea for Chaos with the Garden Book Club

 

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be reading: A Gentle Plea for Chaos by Mirabel Osler.

"In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award."

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/2WOdS4m

Our Winter 2021 club meeting will be on Thursday, February 25 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom.

Please RSVP to washingtongardenermagazine (at) gmail.com to have the Zoom link sent to you. 

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club is free and open to all. We meet quarterly on a weekday evening usually near a metro-accessible location in the DC-area (when COVID is not a factor). We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

Want to read ahead? The next book club selections are:

• Spring 2021 - The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly

• Summer 2021 - American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson

• Fall 2021 - The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso

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Discuss "Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters" with the Garden Book Club

 For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be reading: 

Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters 

"Two Gardeners is a collection of these luminous letters, edited and introduced by Emily Herring Wilson. The letters bring to life the unique epistolary friendship between two intelligent women, the "formidable" Mrs. White and the "shy" Miss Lawrence, both avid gardeners and readers, both at a stage of life when to make a new friend was rare indeed: when they first wrote to one another, Katharine was sixty-two, Elizabeth, fifty-four."

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3mo1SSv

Our Fall 2020 club meeting will be on Thursday, November 12 from 6:30-8pm via Zoom. 

Please RSVP to washingtongardenermagazine (at) gmail.com, so you can get the Zoom meeting link information.

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club is free and open to all. We meet quarterly on a weekday evening near a metro-accessible location in the DC-area. We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

We will also be discussing our next book club selections for 2021. Bring your suggestions!

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