Product Description

Garden styles vary widely, everyone wants something unique. If your wish is to incorporate your religious beliefs into your garden, choosing the proper plants can leave you stumped. In this book I will tell you what plants to choose for a moon garden, a fairy garden, a tarot card garden, a sabbat garden, an old world medicinal garden or a zodiac garden. Magical Gardens also contains a basic gardening primer so even new gardeners can successfully create the garden of their dreams. I know if you seek information on creating Magical Gardens this book will be the one you need.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1952301 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-25
• Released on: 2008-01-25
• Binding: Digital
• 19 pages

About the Author
Sheri Ann Richerson has over 20 years experience in newspaper, magazine and creative writing. She is experienced in speaking and is a garden coach. She writes on a regular basis for Garden Solutions Magazine. She is the BellaOnline Water Gardens Editor and a contributing writer for Suite101. She has written for various Llewellyn publications in addition to doing a considerable amount of magazine and Internet writing. She is the Plant-A-Row for the Hungry Region III Representative, a longtime member of both the Garden Writers Association of America and of the American Horticultural Society. She was the vice-president of the Grant County Evening Gardening Club. She was the president of the Garden Club of Marion, a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors. Creative Hands, American Orchid Society, Tropical Flowering Tree Society, Pacific Bulb Society, International Bulb Society, Southeastern Palm Society, Sino-Himalayan Plant Association, a Purdue University Silver Level Master Gardener and a Horticulture Gardening Institute Instructor. Sheri is a lifetime member of the International Thespian Society. Her farm, Exotic Gardening Farms, is a certified wildlife habitat. She is a Global Warming Ambassador for the National Wildlife Federation. Her favorite pastimes are riding her motorcycle, visiting arboretums, traveling, reading, writing, horseback riding and especially-- working in her huge garden. Sheri specializes in herb gardening and tropical, rare and unusual plants. Her diverse range of writing and speaking has included an eclectic mix of articles on current events, herbs, aromatherapy, tropical plants as well as various pieces on Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Her specialty topic is Theobroma cacao commonly known as chocolate. Sheri is currently working on a book with Tom Ogren titled 'A Chocolate Lovers' Garden.' Her first book, 'Perspective Visions: Enigmatic Masterpieces' will be released in 2008. For more information, please visit her websites http://www.SheriAnnRicherson.com or http://www.exoticgardening.com

Customer Reviews

Magical Gardens
Garden styles vary widely, everyone wants something unique. If your wish is to incorporate your religious beliefs into your garden, choosing the proper plants can leave you stumped. In this book I will tell you what plants to choose for a moon garden, a fairy garden, a tarot card garden, a sabbat garden, an old world medicinal garden or a zodiac garden. Magical Gardens also contains a basic gardening primer so even new gardeners can successfully create the garden of their dreams. I know if you seek information on creating Magical Gardens this book will be the one you need.

No green thumb ... Will my son-in-law create my magic garden?
Anyone who knows me, knows that I don't have a very green thumb. Heck, my thumb has been known to kill so many plants, it's actually yellow... a little yellow coward that runs at the first mention of gardening.

But there's nothing I enjoy more than a lovely garden ablaze with brilliant blossoms in every shade of the rainbow aesthetically placed among rows of greenery so lush I feel like I'm in a tropical paradise.

I bought this Amazon Short in hopes I could lure my son-in-law into creating a fabulous garden in my back yard. His thumb is so green, I often fear he might one day become green all over, like the "Incredible Hulk." ... lol ... But all kidding aside, he's a master at creating magnificent garden settings. You should see their backyard; the pool area is to die for! Whenever I visit them, I feel like I'm swimming in a natural pool amongst the lush foliage of Kauai, Hawaii's Garden Island.

I applaud Sheri Ann Richerson, the author of Magical Gardens, for her awesome gardening skills and for her contribution to "greening" the world. She not only has over twenty years of newspaper, magazine and creative writing credits, she's a well-known speaker, a garden coach and writes on a regular basis for "Garden Solutions Magazine." She has too many credits to mention, but she's a Purdue University Silver Level Master Gardener and a Horticulture Gardening Institute Instructor and is a Global Warming Ambassador for the National Wildlife Federation ... just to name a few.

In addition, her farm, Exotic Gardening Farms, is a certified wildlife habitat.

Richerson is known for her magical garden themes: Moon Garden, Fairy Garden, Tarot Garden, God or Goddess Garden, Zodiak Garden ... and the list goes on. She encourages people to use their imagination to come up with their own themes.

In this short story she details all that's required to create those gardens and more. Don't they sound captivating? They certainly enchanted me, but since I know my limitations, I'm hoping this article inspires my son-in-law to create something special for dear old "Mom" ... come springtime, of course. I'll let him get through the Holiday Season without hitting him with my latest project. Am I generous or what?

I highly recommend this article to anyone who's interested in gardening. Richerson is also the author of a poetry book, Perspective Visions: Enigmatic Masterpieces, which in the author's own words is "a unique work of art showing the darker side of life and love." I haven't read it yet, but it sounds intriguing.

END-NOTE: The five stars are for the author's gardening credits, skills and the helpfulness of this short article; her punctuation would not pass the "green" test.)

Reviewed by: Betty Dravis, December 2008