Mentors in the Garden of Life

Plants and People and Lessons Learned in the Dirt Popular garden columnist, lecturer and coach Colleen Plimpton has written a unique gardening memoir filled with funny, sad, touching and memorable stories of her years of digging in the dirt, the many people who nurtured her interest from childhood, and the unexpected life lessons she learned from morning glories, lilacs, potatoes, and even dandelions. Each chapter concludes with a detailed profile of the plant or woodland creature around which the story revolved. Mentors in the Garden of Life has received numerous awards, among them: * 2011 Connecticut Book Award Finalist in the Memoir category * The 2011 International Book Awards winner, Home: Gardening category * Best Books 2010 Awards Finalist, Home: Gardening, from USABookNews.com