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Complete Starter Guide to Bonsai:  Growing from Seed or Seedling - Wiring, Pruning, Care, and Display (Creative Homeowner) Beginner-Friendly Details for the Japanese Art of Bonsai Tree Care by David Squire

US pub date - 7/2/24

After moving to the country from the nearly constant sun of the Mojave desert, I found myself suffering seasonal depression in the gray gloom of winter and early spring. Along with daily meditation (✔️) and a light therapy lamp (also ✔️), I decided that getting a couple of plants would be a good thing. One of the plants I’ve been wanting is a bonsai, even though the idea of having and caring for one has been very intimidating to me. Reading this book was truly helpful in providing accurate information and guidance. 

Along with the guidance and knowledge in the pages of this, there are photos and illustrations that are advantageous for beginners. 

I really appreciated reading an early copy of this and will likely pick up a copy when I’m ready to take on the responsibility of caring for a tree of my own. 

Thank you to Creative Homemaker and NetGalley for the DRC

Preserving the Season by Mary Tregellas

Years and years ago, maybe hundreds, I learned to make a simple strawberry jam with my grandfather. I thought I was a proper know it all at that point because none of my friends knew how to do that. It was like magic watching the berries and pectin slowly meld into such a marvelous concoction. That simple strawberry jam was as far as I got for year and years more until I discovered the joys of…