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Welcome to my website, devoted
to gardeners who want their hobby to be fun and
their garden books and lectures to be both enlightening
and entertaining.
I confess that I’m a
non-conformist garden writer
and lecturer who believes that garden books and
programs should be filled with personally-tested
directions, conveyed with some attempt to give the
audience a delightful, non-sedative, laugh-out-loud
experience.
When you read my books or
attend my lectures, feel free to laugh at my
overwrought successes as well as the innumerable
mistakes I’ve made over the decades that helped me
learn how to stop killing plants. I also hope
you can identify with my misadventures and
chuckle at some of your own horticultural foibles.
One promise: the woes of the
world are heavy enough upon our shoulders, so I’ll
do everything I can to lighten your load.
After all, isn’t gardening
supposed to be about having fun?
P.S. Feel free to click the
"Art's Biography" and "Art's Horticultural Accomplishments" buttons to the left to get a dose of
my horticultural history to date.
Bulb Forcing will teach you how to make
potted bulbs bloom indoors when winter is at its
worst.
Copies
of
Bulb Forcing
for Beginners and the Seriously Smitten are now
available.
In Bulb Forcing, you'll
learn how to grow tulips, daffodils, crocuses, and
the rest of their spring-blooming brethren indoors,
all winter long, when the view outside your window
reveals snow, sleet, or icy rain. Instead, imagine
your windowsills filled with an array of dazzling
flowers. In the informative and entertaining book,
Art reveals the secrets he's used for three decades
to win silver cups and baskets of blue ribbons. It's
filled with more than 360 glorious photos that show
you exactly how to produce your own wintertime
flower show every year. And, Art admits, bulb
forcing requires no Green Thumb. As long as you can
put soil and bulbs in a pot without mortally
wounding yourself, you'll succeed.
Art has taught bulb-forcing segments
on the Discovery Channel, FOX, CBS, and he’s had his
magazine articles published in Better Homes and
Gardens, Fine Gardening, and other
publications. This elegant book has
easy-to-understand instructions as well as Art’s
laugh-out-loud humor threading its way through every
chapter.
NOTE-
The Independent Book
Publishers Association (IBPA) gave
Bulb Forcing
a Benjamin Franklin Award in the home/garden book
category. The IBPA, the largest not-for-profit trade
group in the U.S. book industry, recognizes
excellence and innovation in independent publishing
with its annual Benjamin Franklin Awards, named in
honor of America's most cherished publisher/printer.
For more details about this book, use the "Bulb
Forcing for Beginners..." button in the left-hand
column.
It's back in
print!
Copies are ready for
shipment.
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Art's newest book
Garden Tales
Stories of Growth, Mirth, and Rebirth
GIRL AT LONGWOOD
In the novella
Girl at Longwood, a boy and girl, strangers and just
thirteen, have plant-addicted parents. Just entering
puberty, neither is interested in nor comfortable with the
opposite sex. But they have something in common -- they both
hate gardening. A chance meeting at Pennsylvania's Longwood
Gardens, while hiding from their parents, is the beginning
of a tentative on-again, off-again relationship.
SOX
In Sox, a small boy,
who's discovered the magic that can happen in a garden,
wants to learn as much as he can about gardening. And he
wants to learn from Sox, a huge, mysterious man with a
glorious garden. But Sox wants nothing to do with children,
and he harbors a secret too terrible to share. Sox and the
boy become an odd couple whose friendship may flourish or
disappear.
WIND'S DREAM
Wind's
Dream is about a
strong-willed woman who's part of a group Stone Age
hunter-gatherers living thousands of years in the past. The
folk, as they call themselves, are dying out. Because of a
drought, rivers are dry, plants are withered, and animals
are scarce. In a story that may have been repeated many
times during the Stone Age, Wind and her folk face
extinction unless something can be done…now.
Art Wolk
is an award-winning garden writer, lecturer, and
photographer who communicates the innate humor and joy of
gardening in all his publications. He’s won the Garden
Writers Association Quill and Trowel Award and is a two-time
winner of the Philadelphia Flower Show’s Grand Sweepstakes
Award. Wolk has appeared on the Discovery Channel, CBS, FOX,
and the Home and Garden TV Network.
The
Garden Tales
cover was designed and illustrated by famed
artist
Wendell Minor.
Garden Tales is the perfect gift to give yourself or the
gardener in your life.
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THE
NEW, JUST-PUBLISHED (6/26)
EXPANDED EDITION OF GARDEN LUNACY
Now with more stories and a lot more
laughs
The Expanded Garden
Lunacy: A Growing Concern
is a book for and
about gardeners you won' be able to put down.
Prolific garden writer
Elvin McDonald
describes Art as "the Dave Barry of garden writing."
More importantly, Art promises that reading Garden
Lunacy will be a laugh-out-loud experience.
Feel free to take a look at what's
inside Garden
Lunacy, the
many rave reviews it's
received, as well as Garden
Lunacy symptoms.
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NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE -- The
Little Blue Book of Bulb Forcing
This
booklet reveals secrets of bulb
forcing that Art's used to win more than
100 blue ribbons in the Philadelphia
Flower Show bulb classes. You'll
discover all the information needed to
produce your own glorious indoor,
mid-winter pots of daffodils, tulips,
hyacinths, crocus, and many other bulbs.
And, for the seriously smitten bulb
forcer, you'll learn new techniques to
produce your own blue-ribbon displays.
The
Little Blue Book of Bulb Forcing is
a 40-page
booklet that not only supplies information,
but also laugh-out-loud humor.
Click
on the "Add to Cart" button, below.
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