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The July issue of Avant Gardener is loaded with interesting articles. Topics include: Healthy eating, keeping chickens near a vegetable garden, natural swimming pools, cottage gardening, England's historic gardens, apps to help you identify plants, and much more. Avant Gardener is available by subscription and I'm providing this month's copy for you so you can see if you'd like to subscribe. Here's the link - July 2016 Avant Gardener

Humor, insight, and several decades of gardening, garden writing and developing a fine sense of irony come together in Tom Powell's latest book, "Aphid in My Eye: Adventures in the Orchid Trade" published by Mackey Books. Tom and Betty Powell lived plants in and around New York City. Now that Betty is gone, Tom's tribute to their endearing story is recorded. Betsy West provided the illustrations for their tales in the world of orchid growing and showing. While the book will be of interest to orchid lovers it will also be well loved by anyone who enjoys laughing at the plant industry's foibles and follies. Plus, it is a love story about two people who found each other and lived well together. The American Orchid Society said, "The best part of this rated-very-G booklet is Powell’s take on the "big regional orchid society" or Metropolitan Northern Tier Orchid Society (MNTOS). Anyone who has ever associated with the Byzantine politics and fief...