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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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Page 79 – “Rainbow Dawn” (dandelion in sidewalk), reprinted with permission from Anders

Sandberg (Flickr) – grayscaled.

Page 81 (CC) — “Papa turned 95 today,” by Carol VanHook – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 82 – “Campsis24,” by Angelo Brathot (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity.

Page 84 (CC) – “Nezara viridula on a leaf,” by Stanze (Flickre) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 86 (CC) – “Rose,” by al3lilo (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 87 (CC) – Garden hose (Smith College Plant Houses and Gardens, Northampton MA), Rusty

Clark (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 90 (CC) — “Grasshopper,” by Cuatrok77 (Flickr) — cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity.

Page 91 (CC) – “Praying Mantis,” by Patrick Kavanaugh (Flickr) – cropped.

Page 92 (CC) — “Beetle porn,” by Christian Gloor (Flickr) — cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity.

Page 94 (CC) — “Butterfly sex,” by John Samuel (Flickr) – grayscaled.

Page 95 (CC) – “Dutch Nursery,” by Bert Knottenbeld (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 96 (CC) – “Snail-orama, crossing the road,” by JP (Fllickr) – grayscaled.

Page 97 — “Part of Almondsbury Garden Centre, near Bristol, England,” by Adrian Pingstone

(cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity).

Page 108 (CC) – “Goldfinch,” by stanze (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled, rotated horizontally.

Page 108 (CC) – “Day 123: A Pile of Dirt to Call Our Own,” by Quinn Dombrowski (Flickr) –

cropped, grayscaled.

Page 112 (CC) – “Formal gardens,” by Wendy (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 114 – “Yesterday’s garden,” reprinted with permission from by Zoë (Flickr).

Page 128 (CC) – “Malagos Garden Resort, Davao,” by Thrifty Look (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 130 – “Blooming period,” by Angelo Brathot (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity.

Page 134 – “Strange Flower,” reprinted with permission from Stanley Zimny (Flickr –

flickr.com/photos/stanzim/) – cropped, grayscaled.

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