G is for the Guide to Mediterranean Plants
is for guide...
For this year's A to Z I'm featuring books I've read based on the Reading Challenge.
Today's book is a book your mom loves:
Unfortunately I can't find information about the book online. It was published in the 1960s or so and is a small hardcover with illustrations on the right-hand side of plants and animals, and short descriptions on the left. It was very useful for research when I was drafting my three 15th Century romances set in the Mediterranean.
Instead, here are a few of the plants my mother's featured on her The Nature of My Memories blog:
For this year's A to Z I'm featuring books I've read based on the Reading Challenge.
Today's book is a book your mom loves:
The Guide to Mediterranean Plants
Unfortunately I can't find information about the book online. It was published in the 1960s or so and is a small hardcover with illustrations on the right-hand side of plants and animals, and short descriptions on the left. It was very useful for research when I was drafting my three 15th Century romances set in the Mediterranean.
Instead, here are a few of the plants my mother's featured on her The Nature of My Memories blog:
Which flowers and blossoms do you look for when spring comes?
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I find plant guides like you describe (among other things) at our yearly library book sale. The sale runs for 3 days and they have thousands of books, most priced between 50cents to a dollar. I may never get to Vietnam or Ceylon, but it's fun flipping through the guides. And...I never even thought of using them to craft a background for a story set in those places. Thanks for the idea!
Our pine trees have these yellow buds. I know it's spring when my car is covered in yellow pollen.
But I also wait for the pansies, the daisies, and the black eyed Susans.