(Added on Aug. 29: The contest has ended. Congratulations to Rain Keane, and please watch for next month’s giveaway.)
Some of my favorite gardening books are art books, as well. A Growing Gardener is New York city artist Abbie Zabar’s illustrated journal of a year in her rooftop Manhattan garden. Pruning topiaries, transplanting seedlings, the nesting habits of mockingbirds — it’s all here, drawn in exuberant colored pencil or elegant pen-and-ink. Page by page and plant by plant, urban gardener Abbie manages to create an elaborate little habitat in her 200-square-foot piece of paradise.
Leave a comment after this post, and in one week I’ll let random.org select the winner of a copy of A Growing Gardener. I’ll even tuck a little surprise from my art studio inside the front cover. Good luck!
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Hi! I’ll comment – love books – can’t have too many. This one is gorgeous! Great giveaway! How generous of you. =]
What a great looking book. I signed up for your class at 301 yesterday and I can’t wait to get started, your work is great.
I always enjoy your posts and would love to have this!
It fascinates me that those of us who feel the need to have a garden will find a way even on the roof in the vast concrete maze of a city. There is also a great book called The Gardens of Pompeii by W, Jashemski that tells of archaeological evidence that even people who had no ground to garden on would paint a garden on the wall outside a window or grow plants in small containers. I believe it is an innate need in many of us–it’s in our very bones. It’s particularly delightful to come across people who are both gardeners and artists.
Wow…art and gardening in the same book…What a great combination! Count me in!:)
Sonny
Sounds and looks like a wonderful book! Starting a small garden is on my list of things to do within the next year! I’m thinking of just starting off with a small box garden and working up from there 🙂 And indeed, this giveaway is very generous! Thanks Val!
It looks like a beautiful and interesting book. I’ve done much balcony and pot gardening in the past when I didn’t have any yard of my own. I’m in! I love gardening books that include art.
Here’s my comment! Thanks for letting us know about this charming book–and the chance to win one.
Val,
What a wonderful idea to share the “wealth.”
Have you ever taken a look at dan price’s hand created journals, with his hand written text and pen drawings? Wonderful stuff from an truly ingteresting guy who is living his life and following his soul.
Tim
I would love a chance to receive this book, it is beautiful!
This book looks really beautiful. Thanks for showing it to us!
Hi Val,
My friend and I are sign up for your Raku retreat, and we can’t wait! The bonus is to see your garden. Please sign me up for the book drawing. Thankyou for this giveaway!! I love all books, especially garden books!!
Peace!
Rain Keane
I love reading your blog (it brings me back home to Alabama). Please enter my name in your drawing!
Hi Val,
What a great giveaway! And two of my favorite mediums (colored pencil and pen and ink). It would be a gem to have. Thanks for the chance to win!
Carol
Art and Gardening?and a book? Perfect!
Thanks,
Cheryl
That book looks amazing!
I am a artist. i use watercolor and oils. Your book looks wonderful. I too live in an apartment with no outside room for plants and the inside space is getting full. I know I would use your book to help me paint as well as garden.what a wonderful thing to give away a copy.
Val, you are so terrific! The book is lovely…Hope you are feeling better….Read on FB you had a fever….Jan
The book looks lovely. Please add my name to the list for the drawing.
You are generous in your give-away. This book looks like something YOU would do! Please put my name in your drawing… (oh, I hope I win!) 🙂
I’d love to win this! Please put me in your drawing!
Always enjoy your site. This book looks like a treasure.
What an accomplishment to incorporate the loves of journaling, drawing, and gardening. it looks beautiful!
Oh, wow…what a lovely book! Keeping a journal like that is one of my ambitions. Of course, you have to have the garden first….
I enjoy your site. It’s a different point of view that is fun.
I am returning to gardening after a long time and am getting as much enjoyment from the blogs I visit as I do in my own garden! Thanks for your wonderful site and I will enjoy the book immensely when I win!
Colored pencil and watercolor illustrations + a gardening theme + a BOOK endorced by YOU = we’re on 3rd…bring it home by selecting my name. Got my dirty little fingers crossed! lol
Ohhh!! Pick me! Pick me!! :o)
What a wonderful giveaway! I’d love to win and be able to see all the beautiful pictures in this book.
I love to read your blog…thanks for the opportunity to enter
a fantastic contest! I love to garden and hope to someday get
back into drawing and painting…maybe this would give me the ambition to
start.
Thank you,
Terri
I think I am just as excited about receiving a “surprise” gift from you as I am the possibility of receiving the book! Thanks for the opportunity.
Looks like a wonderful piece of work. Can’t win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticke.
Wow, looks amazing. And I concur–a surprise from you would be even better than the book, if that’s possible!
Put my name in the hat. It looks like a wonderful book, even though your garden art is much better!
whua!!!!! good illustration …(>.<)
it's wondelful books , i think!
I collect gardening books and want to be included in the drawing.
Donna