Arts & Culture

First Coast Connect Book Club: Spring Into Reading

WJCT News | By Melissa Ross

Published February 27, 2014 at 2:23 PM EST

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"The Gardeners Essential" by Gertrude Jekyll

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"The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll" by Richard Bisgrove

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"The Literary Garden, Recreating Literatures’s Most Beautiful Gardens in Your Own Backyard" with an introduction by Ducan Brine";

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"The Meaning of Flowers, Myth, Language and Lore" by Gretchen Scoble and Ann Field

Once a month, the First Coast Connect Book Club features great reading suggestions from book blogger Stacey Goldring.

Here are her thoughts on great titles for spring:

Spring should be here already! At least here in North Florida. But my window displays an overcast sky of doubt, wondering when the warmth will arrive and actually stay.

Yes. The Redbuds are presenting their neon pink buds and some of my azaleas are blooming.

These guys are always early arrivals so can’t be trusted. Chilly temperatures make me wax for gardening in a culturally biblio kind of way.

Check out some of her "botanical" recommendations in the slideshow above and see them all at her website, ChapterEndnotes.com.

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