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SEEDS & WEEDS: The Funniest Things People Have Said About GARDENING

Hours of laughter for gardeners (and anyone who likes to laugh). Dig in and discover a shedload of hilarious gardening tweets, blog posts, memes, cartoons from award-winning cartoonist Mark Parisi, one-liners, verse, witty definitions, bushels of photographs, and more. Here is your garden center of laughter about all things gardening-related — from compost to cutworms . . . sheds to shovels . . . bee stings to back pain . . . dibbers to dandelions . . . sunburn to slugs . . . seed packets to squirrels . . . lawn mowers to leaf blowers. Enjoy bales of laughter in this romp through the world of gardening.

Hours of laughter for gardeners (and anyone who likes to laugh).

Dig in and discover a shedload of hilarious gardening tweets, blog posts, memes, cartoons from award-winning cartoonist Mark Parisi, one-liners, verse, witty definitions, bushels of photographs, and more.

Here is your garden center of laughter about all things gardening-related — from compost to cutworms . . . sheds to shovels . . . bee stings to back pain . . . dibbers to dandelions . . . sunburn to slugs . . . seed packets to squirrels . . . lawn mowers to leaf blowers.

Enjoy bales of laughter in this romp through the world of gardening.

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Photo acknowledgements

Big thanks to everyone whose photos appear in this book. There are three

categories of photos: photos in the public domain, which need no attribution;

photos for which we received the photographers’ permission; and photos

(marked CC in the list below) posted under the Creative Commons “Attribution

2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)” license –creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.

(Some were posted under the “Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA

2.0)” license – creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/). Both CC licenses

require users to specify the photo source and any modifications made to it.

We wish we could have done these in color!

Front cover (CC) – “Lyra’s Garden Hands,” by Devynia (Flickr) – background removed, colors

adjusted.

Page 2 – “Flowers,” by George Tan (Flicker – public domain) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 3 – “Masse florale,” by Angelo Brathot (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity.

Page 4 (CC) – “Cherry tomatoes,” by Edgar Pierce (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity.

Page 5 (CC) – “SW bed leafy greens, tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, strawberries,” by Jennifer

Feuchter (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity.

Page 7 (CC) – “Flower Garden Bokeh,” by Torsten Behrens (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled, reduced

opacity.

Page 10 (CC) – “Garden flowers,” by Nathan Cooprider (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled, reduced

opacity.

Page 11 (CC) – Dandelions, Robert Engelhardt – cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity.

Page 21 – “Students at High Shoals elementary plant for the second time with the help of Dean

Angle and Representative Chuck Williams,” reprinted with permission from April

Sorrow/University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – cropped,

grayscaled.

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