How does your garden grow?
Lake Geneva Public Library Community Engagement Librarian Ellen Ward-Packard has a few suggestions for books to get you thinking spring.
BIRNAM WOOD
BY ELEANOR CATTON
Birnam Wood, a guerilla gardening group committed to growing food on land they may or may not own, has set its sights on an abandoned property in a New Zealand national park. Unfortunately, an eccentric American billionaire has plans to use the property for a doomsday shelter. Shakespearean eco-drama ensues in this novel.
THE GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS
BY TAN TWAN ENG
When war crimes prosecutor Yun Ling Teoh retires to the jungles of Malaya, she meets the former gardener to the Japanese emperor and asks him to create a memorial garden for her sister. He refuses, instead taking her on as his apprentice. This quiet but weighty work of historical fiction contemplates memory and forgetting through 40 years of history.
MIDWEST GARDENER’S HANDBOOK, 2ND EDITION: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PLAN, PLANT & MAINTAIN A MIDWEST GARDEN
BY MELINDA MEYERS
Midwest garden guru Melinda Meyers walks you through the challenges and joys of gardening in our area. Don’t play trial and error; this book contains 30 years of experience to make gardening in every season a delight, not a struggle.
