ah… bedtime. Seems to be an all-encompassing endeavor over here! But this time it’s the garden’s turn. I’ve been busy tucking in the garden for winter! Since baby boy, getting outside has felt like much needed therapy. I can only sit still inside for so long before I feel like jumping out of my skin!
Which is why I am cherishing every tiny bit of time I get to spend out there. Even if it’s just to pull the weeds that are multiplying even faster then our family seems to be.
Do you garden? This year I decided I want to learn how to save my own seeds for next year. My favorite…. sunny lemon yellow sunflowers. They were so easy and such a fun project to do with my preschoolers!
All you do is cut some of the stalks that are dried out. (slightly brown on the back). Put the dried stalk in a paper bag and keep it in a cool dry spot until the seeds start to fall out. (You could just leave them in nature too…. but the birds might eat them all before you get a chance to save a few.)
I tied mine to my porch swing. If the bag gets wet make sure you put a fresh one on or your seeds may spoil with mold. Next year I’m going to plant a long row of these on the other side of my veggie garden with pumpkins below spilling down the hillside. I can’t wait!! I just need to transfer a bunch of the pig *** over there and dig up a bit. I think this would work for many flowers….. next year I am going to try this with some of my perennials and try to grow my ‘lil garden on the cheap.
Phew…. fall is such a busy time of year. Today we are saying goodbye to Pig-Liggies. 
The chuck full freezer will be nice but I can’t decide how to best avoid the chore……. go bumming with the kids or work on the 265th batch of tomato ______. (fill in the blank with either soup or salsa….. check those links out to see my favorite canning recipes this season.)
(sad to see them go….. but you can read why we grow our own food here)
If you have stuck with me this long you deserve a reward!! How about a big fat gardening book giveaway reward?? Because gardening season is coming to a close, I am stocking my library and library card with a bunch of juicy gardening books. I love learning. Especially garden learning. And especially in the dead of winter when there is five feet of snow on the ground and all I can think is the possibilities of what might be. (With gardening, I really do think the dreaming is half of the fun.)
The Layered Garden is an awesome book. It is so inspiring wether you are an advanced Gardener or someone who just wants to get started. I love that it tackles more of the design aspect and that the pictures are a-MAZING! It is all about designing your cottage garden so you will have continual interest and color year round.
When Timber press Publishing contacted me to see if I’d like to giveaway a copy to one of you I was all over that!! Someone is going to be one lucky reader!!!
To enter… please leave me a comment letting me know what you’d love to learn about or be inspired by to apply to your yard + garden
For extra entries you can share this giveaway on FB, Twitter, Pinterest, your blog, or any other social media site. Please leave an additional comment for EACH ENTRY.
The winner is also going to be gifted with NEW PRV handmade soap!!! (not yet released but will be out oh-so-soon!!)
Have fun!! Good luck 
xoHeather
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Being that I still don’t have a garden, just the basics and gardening for beginners is what I’d be looking for.
I love gardening and flowers. I am always willing to learn anything about it.
I too love to garden. I have 6 raised beds that I garden out of and I am always trying to learn new things to do with my gardens. I have strawberries in one of my beds and asparagus in another bed which leaves me with 4 beds to grow out of. I would like to learn more about mulching my gardens and also the process of growing various crops together. I have heard that you can grow tomatoes with another crop under them to maintain a weedless area. So many things you can do. If I win this book, I would get a good hot cup of coffee and snuggle up some January evening when the winds are blowing and the snow is falling and dream. Thanks so much for all of your wonderful inspiration and ideas.
Heather, I would love to win this book. I have nice gardening spaces, but admit that they overwhelm me(they were here when we moved in)…and I feel guilty for not doing right by them. So, the more info I have, the better the results will be, hopefully.
Would love to have this book. I’m a big Gardner. Have taken care of my yard and many other friends for years. I’m over landscaping at my church. That’s a big challenge. I love to learn new things about Plants. I’m new to your blog. Love it!
I would love to learn how to bring some interest to me garden …I love my garden ..but it’s looking too boring of late. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love anything flowers and plants! But I would love to make a more butterfly and hummingbird friendly garden.
Looks like a wonderful book! And soap too! Thanks for the chance Heather!
Well, I really love to garden but do not always have the best of luck at it. This book sounds like it would really help me. Truly enjoy reading all your updates. Have a blessed day!!
That does look like a wonderful gardening book! Would love a copy of that to read thru the winter to be ready with new ideas in the spring. And a wonderful “new soap” bonus…cool! Thanks for a chance to win such a nice giveaway, Heather.
My husband has collected so many seeds this year I wonder if he’s planning to open a new business! Ha! Bags and bags…Happy seed collecting, Linda
I love lasagna gardening…and this book sounds like it may be related! Thanks!
I am the main gardener for our huge yard. We planted our first vegetable garden this year and still have so much to learn. Gardening is so therapeutic. We have some areas I would love to enhance with layers of plants and sure could use this book.
Hi Heather! Love your blog, and your style! I am always looking for new ways to improve my flower and veggie garden, especially learning more about design, and the best plants for the correct location.
Thanks so much for your generosity!
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I have 2-3 acres of yard. That’s a lot of mowing. I have a vegetable garden, several hosta gardens and a few flower gardens. However, I’ve never been truly happy with any of them, and would love this book so I could learn how to update, change, completely redo – whatever it takes to make my gardens something I’m really happy with. I’m retiring in June so I will have a lot of time to work on them after that. So thanks so much for the chance to win.
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Hi Heather! I would be so happy to win a copy of this book! I recently moved from my home of 32 years, to our new, forever home! It is a new build, so we are startingour landscaping from scratch:( I did manage to save some bulbs given to me from my grandmother, as well as some favorite perennials. Hoping they transplant into the new design (whatever that might be!) Thanks again, and also looking forward to trying your new soaps!!
I am an avid gardener but still stuggle with the design aspect of things especially after the perennials seem to take over. This book sounds amazing! I am a summer person even though I live in New England where the winters are way to long. My saving grace is that the seed catalogs arrive right after Christmas, I force lots of bulbs, read gardening books and open my greenhouse March 1st. Thanks for the great posts!
peg
I love my gardens (‘cept the weeding). I actually would love to learn how to design and grow containers amongst my garden beds. I’ve been with the same old favorites for years and I’d like to expand my selections without digging new beds! (which would just give me more weeds to deal with!)
I don’t garden (or have space for that matter) but my mom does and I would love to win this book for her! She has beutiful gardens but is always looking for shade garden ideas since the back of their lot is wooded.
I need to learn the layered look without it looking sloppy and overgrown/neglected.
Would love to have one
My garden is grown with organic techniques–sustainably grown, which has its difficult side, battling against the insect world. I have needed to learn all I can about the vegetables we grow and would love to learn more about the flowers I can grow to help defend my vegetables and get the highest yield.
I am Granny to 10 and live in a lovely double wide mobile home. Don’t have lots of room but do enjoy my flowerbeds and get compliments from other residents in the park. Have been using mostly perennials and being the thrifty resourceful person I am, love to start a new plant from seeds or a cutting. Would you like some cypress vine seeds or hyacinth vine seeds? Just planted curly willow tree I started from a branch. The book sounds lovely and so does the soap. Hope I win!
I would love to learn about layering plants in my garden. I love perennials and am trying to learn how to combine them for year round color. Design can be so difficult. Thanks for hosting this great giveaway! Would love to try your new soap too!
Good morning! I’ve been a gardener in some capacity all of my life. Sometimes it’s only been a bean in a Dixie cup! I always have to have something growing because there’s nothing quite like that feeling of bringing in flowers or fruits and vegetables you’ve grown yourself. You never quit learning new things though, especially about this subject. This book sounds very helpful and fun to look at. I would love this book for my library even if I don’t win it!
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Hi Heather,
We live in the country and have a big yard. I have a couple of small flower beds. I have dreamed of putting in flowerbeds that wrap around the edge of our yard, and making peaceful sitting areas in a couple of places(backyard and front yard) Our house sits in the middle of a cleared space surrounded by woods on all four sides. I always look at ideas but really don’t know how to choose the right plants, etc. I would LOVE to win this book! Happy Fall!!
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Heather, I am always working in my garden somehow–working towards a cutting flower garden and next year a veggie garden (we will see how it goes here in the deep south). I would love if you would share those sunflower seeds! Thanks for sharing, Kris
I would love to plant a full cutting garden.
After seeing your pretty sunflowers, I decided I am going to try planting some next year:)
I’m sure the ideas and photos are awesome. Count me in as interested!
I too love to garden. I have a flower bedby my little garden shed as well as several other ones thru out the yard. I’m trying to do a cottage garden by my shed. It’s an on going plan. I keep enlarging it every year. I too try to save seeds and replant for more flowers. I dream and plan what I’m going to do the next summer all winter long. I have several books on gardening but would love to win this one. I know it would be well used. I LOVE to garden and am already planning for next year. Thank you for the chance to win!
Sounds like an awesome book. I don’t think you can ever learn enough about gardening. I’ve been saving seeds too. I print out and make packets and hand them out at Easter to anyone who comes to dinner. Thank you for offering the giveaway and the chance to win♥
*hugs*deb
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Good morning Heather.I would love to win the book.
I love to garden and always love to get new and better ideas.
I save my seeds from year to year too.
I have a blackberry flower that is just lovely.The seeds look like a blackberry.
I gather them every year and share with others.
Have a great week-end.Blessings…Becky
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I plan on extending my garden next year as I want to grow more. I’d love to learn how to keep my crops growing throughout the season instead of harvesting once or twice.
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A year ago, last fall, we had to move, and we have been in two different places since then. Not able to garden at all, okay well there was a neighbor across the street that i helped with her garden, but not my own. I had to leave all my plants, and bulbs :{
So with great anticipation, I am looking forward to settling soon to a new plot of land and begin again, with fresh ideas, hopefully, from a book that i would like to win:}}
I would love to win this book.
We try and grow all our own food here. We actually raised sunflowers here too and used the heads to feed our laying hens. Sure helps cut down on the grain bill.
I am inspired you to learn gardening! I would love to have the book!
Just what I need! I recently moved from a Texas border town where everything is dry, brown and the soil basically bedrock to the Texas hill country where everything is green and the soil is great for planting. I have always wanted a garden and I’m excited to be in a place where I can. Now, I just need to learn how to make it work and also use it as my new therapy!
I would love this book! I am always looking for different ideas to add more dimensions to my garden and flower beds.
I have four raised beds and another area I garden. I am always open for helpful ideas in my garden. I must admit I am on my ???? batch of canning tomatoes this morning!!!
I am thirsty for learning anything about gardening. This books looks so interesting and I would love to win it. I love my cottage garden. Always ready to learn more tho.
The year round aspect is what I’m interested to learn about! Actually, this winter we are planning to make cold frames with old windows we’ve collected over the years. Thanks for the great give-away!
Good morning! Your blog is a gift in my email box every time…you exude grace…thank you for that blessing in a rather crass world! I love to garden as well and found that my perennials are all starting to look similar…that is the overall color of my beds…yellow and green…I need to incorporate variety and more purposefully planned blooms that will rotate throughout the growing season…On another note, HOW do you can with all else you do?? WOW! I was just looking at your ezine this morning…the paper copy and I love it!! I would be delighted to win this book and even more a bar of your soap!! Blessings!
Thank you for this opportunity. I am always looking to learn more about gardening.
I would love to learn more about raised bed gardening as I have large gardens and would like to change it up to have more variety and less maintenance. Also intrigued by layered gardening for different seasons….all 4 here in Canada….and plant varieties with minimal maintenance and constant color. Not much to ask for right?! The book looks like an interesting read and thanks for the incentive!
We now live out in the country and I am reviving old flowerbeds and working on gardening. This book sounds wonderful! Fingers crossed it is my luck to win!
I want to re plan my back garden to be very low maintenance yet still have lots of interest through the seasons. I have gotten the seasonal interest going very well in the front garden but it is NOT low maintenance! ;D
So. . .
I will be doing a lot of research this winter. . .
I love your sunflowers. I used to have big yard and gardened with a passion. Now, older, I have a teeny tiny space and I would love to layer a garden in that space—my greatest pleasure is sitting outside looking and playing with my mini garden. It is not year round and I would love it to be. Thanks, Peace, Patricia
I adore gardening and would love to know more about drip irrigation and planting for your zone. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Just now getting into “gardening” and would love to cherish this special book. Thanks for hosting this most gracious giveaway.. good luck to all! Lord knows I need some serious help outside!!! xo marlis
I’d love to learn how to layer to make my garden look fuller. Thanks for the giveaway!
Donna
I love to garden. I’m so excited to have a week off school for fall break to get my garden trim and tidy. We grew a few tomatoes in summer and this spring we are going big with a vegetable garden in our little yard. I’d love to learn more about gardening from a great book.
Hi Heather,
LOVE reading your blog! Have read the book but now want to read it again.
I also love to garden and have been gardening for many years. I have 2 acres I’m trying to keep up. Yikes!
Just a word of caution about the pig poo. (I hesitate to even bring this up cause I don’t want to cause any angst but hopefully you already know.) It’s best to not use pig poo on any vegetable gardening areas. Flower beds are fine. We unwittingly used our pig stuff on our veg beds years ago when the boys were small and unfortunatley, a couple of my little guys got round worms. YUCK! It wasn’t pretty. Thankfully the medicine worked and all was well in the end.
Take care.
I think the book looks fabulous! I bet it has great photos….
Yes, put my name in with the others please….
Thanks,
Nancy
I would like to learn about greenhouse gardening and growing veggies and flowers in the winter. I was gifted a greenhouse last January and am loving it. I also love your blog. Your pics are always so pretty.
Layering is one item we have problems with in our garden. One item dies, another takes off and over powers. Constantly have taller growth in front of smaller items.
I would love to win this book… as gardening is a passion of mine… and also my muse.
I have long admired the English layered look in a garden… but haven’t been real sure how to go about it…and I think this book would fit the bill for me……..but I must admit… I would also love to win that bar of soap from you!!!!
Victoria
Love to garden. I need a few more raised beds for vegetables. Would love to have some new ideas and the book would be inspiring. Thanks for the give away. Love your beautiful photos.
I need to learn how to get the most produce out of a small space.
You are too funny Heather, always cracks me up when I read what you write! Our gardening in So Fla is completely different than probably anywhere else in the country. We are getting ready to plant our tomatoes in a couple of weeks here…so none of that book I’m sure would apply to us! LMK if you need a soap tester though…xox
Heather,
I love to receive your emails.
I love to grow flowers and design my yard so that it is beautiful and peaceful for myself and all who visit. A new gardening book is something I would love to pour over during the long winter.
Val
Hi Heather,
Hmmm… let me see… I would love to learn how to layer my garden so that it actually looks pretty! LOL! Right now mine is pretty much the same as the previous owner of my house had it… she layered but not very good… there are tall flowers growing in front of short flowers, etc.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Tania
Oh I would love to have this book…I really need some new ideas for garden design. I struggle with that and the intense weather we have where I live. But gardening and a beautiful yard bring me such joy.
I love to learn about many things especially thru books they are my best friends they never let you down, do they? Gardening has been pretty important around here of late as I have RA which is an autoimmune illness and eating organic has been huge. So we’re farmers now growing as much as we can as the more I eat of vegetables the better I feel. That has all been a learning experience… I love art, decorating,cooking all offer opportunities to learn and become happier people sharing with the world. Thanks for the chance to win this wonderful book…
I love your down to earth style and class. I love to garden and have a large cottage garden border that I have been making myself be patient and create from rehoming plants from other areas of my landscape. Buying plants is expensive! I would love the book AND the soap! Thanks!
This looks like a great winter read to be ready for Spring!
I would love to know more about what plants you should put together so that your blooms continue from Spring through Fall and you have that Beauty as long as possible!
Thanks for the wonderful give away!
Ohhhhhhhhh I would love to learn everything there is to know about gardening … and look at the pictures, too! Ohhhhhhhhh, and that soap – what a great add-on! Thanks.
Heather, we have a 6,000 square foot backyard and about a thousand of it is flower beds. Our garden is the heart of our home., as is very apparent if you look at the Galleria page on our website, anniegapron.com. It’s where we’re happiest – my husband and me! Over the past two years we have been working towards layered flower beds, but have only had the random article here and there to go by. This book would be a WONDERFUL guide for us. Would love to have it.
BTW…….good luck with all the tomatoes. We also can and our freezer is full of crushed tomatoes, waiting to be made into sauce ~ YUM!
Thanks so much for the terrific blog and the giveaway.
Annie
I am always looking for more ways to bring life to our many gardens. Have loved following along on your blog. You truly are an inspiration to many of us.
Thanks for all the hard work you do to keep this blog going.
A layered garden sounds like a good idea instead of the way I rip it all out and insert something else. Looks like an interesting book. Thanks so much for the give away! MB
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I’d love to win. I can imagine reading the book through the long winter . . .
I love your website and I’d love to visit your garden! I live in the desert and need all the help I can get with “trying” to garden.
I would love to be able to garden like you!
Hello Heather, this is my first response to reading someone’s blog, and I’m thrilled for it to be your’s. You are such an inspiration for me . I always feel so good when I read your words and look at your photos . Your garden is one that makes me want to do more. However it seems so daunting I don’t get a lot done. What I like is that it’s not fussy , just very welcoming. If I am not the lucky one to win this book , I will certainly buy it . cheers for now, Barb
thanks for the tip on the subflower seeds-the book looks great-please enter me in the give away-
Lori
I would love to learn more about raised bed gsrdening.
I would love to learn how to plan so that there is color in my garden all year long! Thank you for the opportunity.
I’m following you on interest!
Thanks again.
What a lovely book! We just finished our house and i am looking forward to gardening next year!
I LOVE gardening as well. This book would be a wonderful inspiration for getting me out in my garden!
Hi, Heather, I have been gardening for 40 years and love it. We are planning on moving from So. California to the local mountains soon with an elevation of about 7,000 feet and I would love to get some ideas on gardening there. It will be a huge change from gardening at 1,200 feet. Thanks, Jennifer
Tried to plant some lettuce and broccoli last year but it didn’t work. Need to find a more sunny space on my small patio this year.
I was just reading in Hobby Farms magazine about carbon sequestration–which means not disturbing the soil. No tilling! (No weed-pulling?) Works for soybeans but not for corn. That’s the second reference I’ve read in recent memory to not digging your garden too much after it’s been established; it preserves nutrients in the soil. So instead of spading everything up every year, you can just add a layer of newspaper to keep the weeds down? Something like that. Lazy gardening–that’s my style.
I would love to add to my rather puny garden plot in our backyard. This year, I planted a ton of beans (I was going to do a lot of canning…), however, our friends the deer family had a little smorgasbord out there before they were ready to pick. I’m envisioning some kind of enclosure out of found materials – maybe with pretty perennials growing up the sides? I’d love for my backyard garden plot to be as pretty as the perennial gardens, but with a lot of delicious veggies to eat!
I would so enjoy this book. I need design help as well as gardening tips for growing things in hot, dry conditions. I could also use help with the ever growing weed population!
Hello Heather, I am so inspired by your emails. I’ve tried to have a small garden but I just don’t have the know how for happy results. I love your ideas about gardening……..raspberry tea….handmade soaps…. the pictures you post make it all seem so easy. Love to follow your blog. Thanks so much.
About 2 years ago I turned my lawn into an English Garden – it is fabulous!! EXCEPT!! I don’t know how to prune/cut back/amend . . .well, you get the idea. I would LOVE to learn how to do all those things and WHEN!!
I’d love to have color and change with every season. Therefore I’d like ideas of what to plant to achieve that. Nothing better than a book of beautiful pictures.I also like to photograph gardens and love looking at pictures of gardens
I love gardening but still have a lot to learn. I would love this book it couldn’t come at a more perfect time I am looking to expand my current flower garden
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We will soon be moving to a new home, and I would love to learn about choosing plants for blooms all season long. I seem to have Spring and Summer covered, but don’t know much about Fall blooming plants. Thanks for the chance to win this inspiring book.
Gardening is one of my top 100 favorite things to do too! Sadly these past couple of years I’ve not been able to garden much – I’m 10 months away from a bachelor’s degree and I work full time outside the home, so my life is pretty full. We are down to our last two jars of salsa that I have managed to make in the past two years and my husband is so bummed. It’s gonna be a long winter for him without his favorite salsa.
I love learning too, all thing gardening is one of my favorite topics – if you could see my bookshelves, you’d understand. However, I do not have this book and it would be welcome on my bookshelf. Thanks for the opportunity and happy fall garden clean up (and tomatoe-ing).
Hi Heather!
I would LOVE to win this book! Gardening is a passion of mine but I have some unique challenges to work with as far as light and space. I am working on an English Herb Garden in raised beds, but had to create it in the DRIVEWAY! LOL! Where there is a will, there is a way. I do have an area I want to plant with flowers and herbs, but need some ideas about what to combine, etc.
Thank You For Offering This Gift!
Sincerely,
Laurie
I do love to garden and am always trying to do things differently and hopefully better! I am an organic gardener, except for my few roses (they’re another story!) and I get a great deal of joy from my little urban space. Winning this book would be a genuine treat to enjoy during our long, grey wintery days. I would even share it with my neighbors, who also love to garden!
Thanks for the posts–they are a happy diversion from writing the last chapter of my dissertation! Cheers, Katie
I am a garding nut…were we live Phonix, we are just now putting out our flowers, tomato plants etc. I would love the book..Vonda
Heather, as most gardeners are tucking in their gardens for a long winter’s nap I am waking mine up. After our long hot summer, my growing season has just begun. It would be awesome to win! Love your blog!
Oh my a new garden book!!! I spend most all of my time in my garden, living in San Diego makes for gardening all year BUT this year I plan on keeping it colorful all through winter and would love some new ideas to apply to my garden. It’s easy to let it go during the cooler months but I just have to keep it weed free so come Spring it’s easy to plant “new”. I am so inspired by your blog and your daily life as a Mom…you do keep busy
) XO
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We grow our own vegetables in 6 raised beds as well as in pots on the deck. Every year I try to add to the flower beds, mostly perennials as they keep coming back.
I’ve given up on tulips as the deer always get the prettiest bulbs just before they open.
I would love to win this beautiful book so I can spend the winter months learning more. I go thru garden withdrawal once it’s all tucked away for the winter.
Love your blog. My daughter has 6 children like you. She just had our first grandson after having 5 girls. We are truly blessed with these beautiful children. I’m sure you understand what I mean.
Hugs to you and your lovely family.
Thanks for the chance at this great giveaway. I could use all the help I can get as I kill hen and chicks, I dont know how but I do.. I hope to grow some beautiful next spring. The soap would be awesome too!
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We are starting to rake leaves in our yard. The weather has been perfect. always lots to do in the garden in the fall!! Would like some suggestions on winterizing the big pots in my yard.
Dear Heather,
I love the fact that you are saving seeds. It would be nice to hear about ways you and perhaps others save seeds, such as tomato seeds from heirloom varieties. When we buy the pricey ones at the grocery store we could save a few seeds to grow for ourselves. Also, I curious about tips on growing tomatoes, such as dry farming, cages or poles, etc. …I have saved green pole beans that were grown on a teepee trellis quite successfully by simply drying the last few on the vine and then putting them away in a dry place. Other things like tomatoes take extra care, I believe.
Thanks so much for your sweet inspirations and photos.
My husband grows beautiful roses and I have no idea how to help with them at all. Anything I could learn about the care of roses would be helpful
Wow, this looks like a great book. I would love to know how to space things better so that the garden fills in and looks full instead of so much dirt showing… I guess part of the issue is “time” — but I still think I have a lot to learn!
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Gardening has taught me to embrace whatever the results are, and let go of any disappointment how results look from my plans. I can plant, water, weed, etc, but God provides the rain whenever He pleases, winds dance through tall stemmed plants, and moles/deer/rabbits enjoy the buds. I enjoy the process of gardening and savour the surprising results.
I would love to see container gardening, since i live in a townhouse and we have no yard…thanks
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I love gardening – to me its the best therapy around. I would love to learn how to layer my flower beds. And you have inspired to me to plant sun flowers next year.
I would like to learn more about raised beds. We gardened for years while the kids were growing up , but not anymore. I would love to start again with SMALL raised beds.
Thank you so much for the giveaway!!
Blessings~
My yard needs so much work and we garden but I need some ideas on layouts and what to plant that wildlife does not eat. This is a great giveaway and I thank you for hosting this Heather….I love your sunflowers and I am giving this a try next year…
I love the full look of cottage gardens. I have some iceberg roses and a few lavender plants, but need some ideas on filling in some areas and giving it more height and depth.
Love the fall gardens . Grew up on a Illinois farm and just love the colors and putting up the final harvest. Our family had apple orchards. Would love how to use all of my herbs at the end of the season. Have enough pesto in the freezer to feed the neighborhood!
I guess you can see by my e-mail address that i am a gardener. i have gardened for many many years probably since i was a tiny tot at my father’s knee. We lived in Africa for 14 years and my Dad had a gorgeous garden there. He had to built garden beds and put canopies over them, made of bamboo mats, to shade them at the hottest time of the day. My DH and i had a huge,2 acre garden for many years i learned so much from gardening friends and books both from the library and from my own collection. When my DH passed five years ago i moved to another town and was gifted by being able to start a brand new garden all from scratch and planned by me! Gardening in Canada is very differant from gardening in Africa and i love that i can put the garden to bed in the fall and refuel all winter, quilting and reading and scrapbooking and planning for the spring, my favorite season.Now i get most of my inspiration from Pinterest and garden blogs like your’s. There are so many generously talented people out there and I am the happy benefactor of so many wonderful ideas. The trees are showing their gorgeous colors right now and the Robins are all vieing for space in my garden and pond and eating the Mountain Ash berries…it is a treat to be able to be a part of the changing seasons and to enjoy the gifts of each in their turn. ..there is something to be learned there to about change, rest and renewal. The garden never is the same from one day to the next and we too can learn from nature that change is good and that taking time to charge our batteries only gives us more energy and inspiration for the next project.
I veggie and flower garden, I want to know more about peonys and camilias. I have 7 varieties of hydrangeas, 70+ daylllilies and many iris, I just need to know more about gardening as a whole thanks you for this chance
Heather, you are filled with so many inspiring, creative ideas! Your blog is always a treat to read and savor. The Layered Garden would really help me to fill my cottage gardens with color all season long! Fingers crossed!
I have older flower beds that desperately need to be redone. A bed that started out in the sun is now in the shade and several others have just grown wildly over each other. I need some ideas for a direction to go with these!
Thank you for the giveaway. Maggie
Hi Heather,
♡ Just pinned The Layered Garden to my Pinterest board:
http://pinterest.com/pin/234890936786371869/repin/
I love gardening and would like to figure out how to have continuous blooms! Currently I get a ‘big show’ then….nothing until the next ‘big show’. Thanks for the chance to win – I really enjoy your ideas too!
What a beautiful book! Since we’ve moved to a new house, we are having to learn which plants and flowers will do best in certain areas of our yard, like full sun or part-sun. It’s always fun to create a new yard and this book looks like it will have many wonderful ideas and tips to help. Thank you for the give-away!
I would love to win this book. Especially if there is help for the novice gardener. It looks gorgeous!
I love to garden and I love great books to pour over and plan!
Heather-
I would like to learn more about increasing my yield in my garden. I have never really been able to ‘skip’ the grocery store on vegetables that I have tried to grow. I also would love to know how to rotate crops and how to plant cool season crops. I love to read your blog. I especially like to see pictures of your sweet family.
pamela
I also love to garden, but moving from sunny CA to WA state is a big adjustment!
I need to learn about different climate flowers, and the tricks to having an interesting garden year round, even in the rain!
Love your blog & when I was younger(i’m 62 now) was much like you. When I read of your canning and family it brings back so many good memories.
than you,
neta
Neta,
Welcome to the Pacific Northwest! One helpful hint…make sure you have a plan to fight slugs if you’re located in western Washington. Since the rain has just started, hang on; believe it or not you’ll make it through the winter. Maybe plant some bulbs now to give you that start.
I sure would love to win a great book and try so new techniques in my new yard! We just moved into our house and need some inspiration. Thanks for the opportunity, I love tomatoes but need to learn some more techniques for small year zoning!
Just pinned it! Thanks for another opportunity!! Di
Thanks for the offer…it’s always difficult for me to figure out how to layer. We have a SERIOUS deer problem here and I am tired of lavender, rosemary and foxglove!
I have lived in my home now for almost 5 years and have been trying to create a “Cottage Garden” look around my home. I love roses, clematis’ Climbing Hydrangeas and Pea Hydrangeas. I also love Honeysuckles. What I would really like to do though is to create a really showstopper backyard garden space that is the various shades of pinks from Spring through to Fall. I believe this book looks like it would have some very good suggestions for me. So I would love to win it.
Thank you Heather for all of your beautiful little emails I enjoy them immensely. Would love to see some more pictures of your newest little “Angel” though.
Hugs to you and yours,
Linda.
I love to garden, but I can’t quite get the look I’m going for. Perhaps this book would help me a bit! Love your inspiration Heather!
We just moved and bought a home with very little landscaping. I miss my old yard with all the lovingly placed plants. I would love to receive inspiration and motivation over the winter for my new location and home.
I would love to learn about cleaning up a garden in the fall and preparing it for next season. We always seem to just leave it and have so much work to do in the spring.
lovely book! the cycle of life causes me to scale down in gardening but one can still learn even in that process!
Would love to win a copy of this book. We just moved this summer from a house on a small suburban lot to a home on an acre lot. We spent the summer pulling out overgrown shrubbery and I need ideas for my new beds and borders. I have just recently discovered you blog and enjoy it very much.
–Leesa
What a beautiful photo on the cover of the book! I can only imagine that the inside is filled with incredible inspiration. I would love to linger over this book with a cup of tea! I am anxious to learn how to create beautiful, cottage style gardens that reflect the peacefulness that I strive for in my home. My home is beginning to look like what I have envisioned for so long, but my yard still looks like 1970′s suburbia.
Hi Heather
and I love the layered look in a garden. This time of year, I just pull off the dried heads from the flowers and walk about scattering them!
What a gorgeous book cover!
Our garden is English Country – including the picket fence
Thanks for the giveaway ♥
I’d love this book just for inspiration for the plants that look pretty together! I have lots of flowers, but need some new ones to add more seasonal color!♥♫
We have a large family and gardening is our way of providing nutritios food to the family. I enjoy learning new aspects of gardening/decorating our farm. I plan to extend our herb garden and replant in farm house, cottage style around the house. This book would give me knowledge and ideas on how to go about it.
We are in the process of moving into a 35 ft . travel trailer for the next three yrs. while my husband finishes up his college degree . I have a passion for gardening ,and the thought of being without land to grow things is a bit daunting. However !! Iam determined to be creative, and garden in old fashioned wash tubs,etc… creating a cottage garden feel ,even in an RV park. This book would be inspiring to feast upon during the long upcoming winter months ahead, and give me creative ideas to look forward to !! I hope I win !!!!!!
We just bought our first home late this past spring so I got to see what was left for me and this next year I would love to enhance the sturdy bones left and stretch the beauty of our space well into fall and winter!
I trained to become a Master Gardener this past year and was so busy studying and learning that my own gardens were sorely neglected. I especially love to grow flowers and dream of one day opening a small roadside flower stand. I also grow veggies, berries, perrenials, herbs, and lots of weeds! I would love to learn more about year-round seasonal interest in the garden. Thanks, Heather, for the opportunity to win this delightful looking book.
It is so much fun to read about your gardening, Heather, and see what you have grown and are reaping the rewards! I love to garden, too, but since we downsized last year and couldn’t plant much this summer due to construction, I am looking forward to next spring and summer and to garden on a smaller scale. I’m thinking a couple of small, raise beds for veggies and then adding lots of perennials to our very small flowerbeds. I still have the urge to get my hands dirty!
I pinned it!
I also shared on FB so my gardening friends will know and also so that they can find out about PRV!
I’d want to find out about plants to have for the fall winter after the pretty summer flowers are gone.
Hi, I would love a chance at winning this book; I am a novice gardener but love a cottage look. I’m going to pin this too. So please enter my name. Hugs, Noreen
When we moved from our small city yard to the country, with a 1 acre yard, I realized my methods would have to change. I need some new ideas for plantings around a pond and in borders. Thank you so much for giving away such a lovely book. I’m so glad I found you and your site. I love your pictures.
I would love to learn how to turn my plain backyard into a beautiful area that my whole family can enjoy!! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway
Heather, I’ve really enjoyed seeing you share the things you do in your day to day life, I look forward to the next year as well and I love the things in your shops, you’re very talented
I love the book, I used to be good at planting flowers, shrubs and trees but for some reason I seem to have lost my touch the past several years, okay maybe the past 9 yrs.,
anyway the Layered Gardening books looks really awesome, it could probably teach this ol’ dog some new tricks
Thanks for the opportunity <3 Co
I totally love the yellow sunflowers…..I have to plant them next season…..I actually make sunflower penny rugs and will defifitely do one in the yellows…..
I love your sunflowers! They are one of my favorites! A few years back we had planted some and I also was feeding the birds sunflower seeds. Within a few months our whole back yard was FILLED with them.
We have moved and I would love some inspiration in planting the new gardens
I am so excited about this book since I love gardening. I have always done the row gardening or the spot garden but have never tried the layered but have always thought they looked lovely especially for pathways or yard-side. Can’t wait to see who the lucky winner is!
I also love your site, it is like a breath of fresh vintage. I posted your give-away on Pinterest.
Thank you,
Darlene
I have a couple of raised beds for our veggies….but there is just so so so much to learn (like how to keep the watermelons from climbing to the roof–yes, the roof!!–of the greenhouse!!!) This book looks like a perfect winter read for inspiration and renewal! Thanks for the offer.
I just pinned the book! It’s one I really want to remember!
I love gardening too! Don’t really have a rhyme or reason, I just stick them in the ground and see what happens! This book might really help!!
I love the idea of lning my garden with the flowers on the outside eadge the last two years my gardening has not been the best not sure what I am doing wrong? But I am in the process reading trying to figure out what I might do to improve less of a drought here in Missouri would help greatly.
Heather your pictures are so soft you just want to reach out and touch the beauty of all you do! What great inspiration!
Cindy
Yes we garden! It is a great way to grow fresh produce to feed a family! Would love to read this!
i would love to learn about getting more veggies in less space! thank you for the chance to win!
This year my gardening was limited to canning jams/jellies from our apricot & plum trees. (Okay, I made a bunch of pies too!) But I am inspired to grow some sunflowers after reading your post. Thanks for ‘push’ in the outdoor direction!
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Thank you for the chance at your wonderful giveway. I dabble in gardening and so enjoy the edible treats we get from it. Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration that you share!
We have several pine trees in our yard and this time of the year, we get plenty of pine needles- everywhere! Raking or blowing them into the flower beds makes for no weeds come spring, , talk about easy!
I had a great time this summer, serving meals rustled up fresh from our country garden! I would love to learn more about how to extend the growing season, so that we can enjoy fresh goodness for weeks longer!! =)
I would love to have the gardening book, I love gardening also and spending time outside in the fall is my favorite!
Awesome giveaway Heather. It looks like a gorgeous book. I have only been gardening for two years now but it has changed the way I look at food and my environment. I still have much to learn but the process is so rewarding that it makes it exciting!
Rebecca
Sounds like the book for me! Just pitch my name in the hat…..Thanks Heather………..
we just moved so we will be starting all over in all areas of gardening. Equal parts dread and excitement!
I was enjoying this until you told us about the pigs. I know this happens, but don’t like to read about it.
Heather, I try and try buying things for the garden willy nilly. I’d love to see what the book has for me to learn how and where to plant…not just plop it in the ground and hope for the best.
I would love to learn how to arrange my veggies in a way that makes more sense!! I feel like it’s all hodgepodge in my garden. I love this giveaway! Thanks.
I need all the help I can get in the garden ! My husband is a fabulous gardener. All that he touches turns to gold. Me ? I need some tips.
I would love to be entered.
Thanks,
Kristen
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I am brand new to gardening and would love to learn about raised bed gardening, particularly something covered to keep the deer out. We live in an area of the country that the deer are always eating plantings.
Hi Heather,
I too love my sunflowers and this was our second year creating a sunflower house with them. Tall, lanky sunflower stalks with morning glories twining themselves around them to create magical walls with a bright golden smiling-faced ceiling! This year too, I grew my first hollyhocks – beautiful black inky flowers. I would love this book for a new idea to try next year!
I’d like to learn what plants are good for clay soil.
Hi Heather,
I have loved to garden, mostly flowers, for almost 20 years. No real training, with inspiration mostly from magazines. This book looks like it will have plenty of inspiration for those new corners of the garden that just keep asking to be planted.
Wow, what a lovely giveaway
I am totally in love with gardening, putting my hands in the dirt and literally seeing the fruits of my efforts. I would really like to learn how to build a little romantic hideaway in the yard so if you could do a post about that, I would really appreciate it 
All the best,
Christina
I didn’t see a deadline date so I hope I’m not too late to enter! I would love to learn more about creating the layered gardens. Though I’ve been planting flowers for years, I’ve not ever done it with any rhyme or reason. Just slap those babies in the ground and hope they survive and do well. Learning some beautiful ideas and tips would be such an inspiration to me.
I would LOVE to know how to keep my yard and gardens full of color and texture ALL YEAR long. Thanks for the chance to win. Can’t wait to try out your soap too. Thanks again.