Helps broaden our understanding of the rhythm of the gardening year.
National Gardening Association
Margot Rochester blends solid how-to advice with delightful anecdotes.
The Salt Lake Tribune - Hilary Groutage
Opinionated, irrverant, funny, thought provoking, and this decade's version of Henry Mitchell.
Goes into great and witty depth about the many ways to make gardening less like drudgery and more satisfying.
Island Breeze - Geegee Rosell
A pleasant read.
Experience gardeners who read Earthly Delights will find much that is familiar, but I don't think you can read more than a sentence or two without learning new garden facts.
Hilton Head Island Packet - Betsy Jukofsky
This retired high school English teacher's gardening and writing expertise shines forth in all 216 pages of the book.
A really fun look at getting gardening done without doing yourself in.
The Clarion-Ledger - Nel Neal
Enjoy of the change of seasons as you learn from this charming book about how to garden year-round the easy way. If you find yourself stressing out about how to manage your landscape, curl up with Earthly Delights and feel you weary self relax.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Marianne Binetti
If you want to garden for pleasure with minimal effort for maximum results, this book is for you. Margot is a knowledgeable and experienced gardener plus an entertaining writer.
Sandlapper - Rose Wilkins
Her conversational, clever and hilarious book offers more than 75 no-nonsense tips for the lazy, older or practical gardener who seeks a manageable, organic, gorgeous landscape.
This book is a 'curl up in the middle of winter and be led into the author's garden for a while.'
It's also an easy read, almost like Rochester is taking you by the hand to walk you through her garden as she shares her thoughts and tips.
The Beaufort Gazette - Debbie Radford
Rochester has a philosophy that gardening should be fun, and if it isn't, don't do it. She offers more than 75 strategies for avoiding backache and vexation.
A charmingly chatty how-to manual.
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Denise Cowie
A delightful, information-packed romp down the garden path.
In a very common sense way of gardening along with a delightful sense of humor, Rochester shares her considerable gardening knowledge. Earthly Delights inspires us to enjoy gardening and spend our efforts and energy on other things than turning the compost heap or pulling multitudes of weeds.
National Garden Clubs - Joanne S. Carpender
Earthly Delights avoids the compulsive perfectionism that drives many out of gardening into hobbies less subject to the influence of weather, insects, mold, chipmunks, and nutsedge. A great gift to your favorite gardener, who will read and smile through a whole year of gardening experiences.
Hortresources Newsletter - Donna Williamson
While this garden maven says she takes the lazy person's route to cultivating, readers quickly will understand there's no lack of passion here. Rochester's gardens have sprouted from one funny, feisty, and free-spirited seed.
Cheap and labor-saving...that combination just can't be beat.
Beaufort-Hyde News - Kevin Scott Cutler
Perhaps it's time to put down the shovel and wipe the sweat out of your eyes. A little hammock time with Earthly Delights might teach you a trick or tow about gardening the easy way.
The Greenville News - Marian St. Clair
Informs gardeners about plant selection, garden design, propagating, seed starting, on-the-spot composting, pruning, and attracting birds and butterflies as well as reflecting upon ways gardening enriches the gardener's life.
Earthly Delights is a collection of her witty, wise and philosophical garden columns.
Chronicle-Independent - Sheila Riddick McKinney
Gardeners on the lookout for a straight-talking mentor should profit from Rochester's journal and its refreshingly practical musings. No plant snobbery here but rather a self-described leisurely gardener who revels in finding shortcuts to digging and cultivating her plot of land. Rochester's attitude invites the reader to take a break, pour a cup of tea, and forge a fine and friendly relationship with a kindred spirit.
Helps broaden our understanding of the rhythm of the gardening year.
National Gardening Association
Informs gardeners about plant selection, garden design, propagating, seed starting, on-the-spot composting, pruning, and attracting birds and butterflies as well as reflecting upon ways gardening enriches the gardener's life.
