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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 180 – “Purdue Horticulture Gardens 07-28-2017 3,” reprinted with permission from David

Ellis (Flickr).

Page 183 (CC) – “As My Garden Grows,” by Alan Levine, public domain.

Page 184 (CC) – “Lawn Mower,” by Rafael Castillo (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity.

Page 186 (CC) – “Must mow the lawn,” by Mat Wal (Flickr) – grayscaled.

Page 187 (CC) – “Hannah in the tall grass,” by Amber Strocel (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 190 – “Elephant ear plant (Colocasia) in Louisiana,” by Eric Svendson.

Page 193 – “Squash bug, Coreus marginatus,” by Noel Feans (Wikimedia Commons) – grayscaled.

Page 194 (CC) – “I just finished mowing the lawn,” by Q Family (Flickr) – grayscaled.

Page 196 (CC) – “Helping dad mow the Lawn,” by EAndrew Dawes (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled,

reduced opacity.

Page 198 – “Making the hay: Life of 2006 in the countryside of northern Portugal,” by Hanna

Norlin (Flickr) – grayscaled.

Page 201 – “Dock bug,” by Stanze (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled, reduced opacity.

Page 204 (CC) – “Lunchtime,” by Nishanth Jois (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 205 (CC) – “Where’s the afterparty?” (Original title: “Leaves with chewing damage at

Kipahulu camp Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii”), by Forest and Kim Starr (Flickr)

– grayscaled.

Page 207 (CC) — “Looks like I’ll need a rope,” by Dennis Loveridge.

Page 208 (CC) — “Dirty dog,” by Christian Gauthier (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 209 (CC) – Woman in t-shirt, by Spread Group – grayscaled, artwork added.

Page 210 (CC) — “Potted plants,” by Lorna Mitchell (Flickr) — cropped, grayscaled, reduced

opacity.

Page 213 (CC) — Garden shop, by Franklin Heijnen (Flickr) – cropped, grayscaled.

Page 215 (CC) – “If you can’t pot them, boot them” (original title: “Christianian Iorontziak”), by

Eider Palmou (Flicker) – grayscaled.

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