Hello friends! And a double hello for all gardening friends visiting on this gorgeous springlike weekend in Oklahoma. I have a lovely surprise for you, and I hope you’ll help spread the word.
Dee Nash, a sweet, smart garden writer and friend from right here in our beautiful home state has published her first gardening book which is every bit as lovely as she is. And, because my luck knows no end, I have been invited to share it with you.
Congratulations, Dee! xoxo
Not only do I get to introduce this book to you, but I also get to give one lucky reader a fabulous garden prize, courtesy of Longfield Gardens! I’m not alone, either. The (Not Always) Lazy W, incredibly, is part of a whole group of beautiful blogs gathered to offer Dee our support. Each one is giving away a different amazing prize. (Scroll to the bottom for a complete list. They are all worth visiting and following!)
You will remember Dee from last summer when she visited the farm and let me interview her about all kinds of great things. She shared with me about her life, loves, garden experiences, dreams, and plans. She and her husband Bill have grown a truly beautiful life together, the garden being only a part.
Dee snapped a few photos of me in my own garden, too, and just flat out inspired me in every way. I so enjoyed that day and over the few short years knowing Dee have learned so much.
Dee gets it when a person waxes poetic over home-grown vegetables or flushes about which perennials are best suited to Oklahoma. In fact, after our interview hours at the farm that day, she and I visited a local tree plantation and explored for another hour or so. She squealed over citrus trees and crepe myrtles like a new mother picking out ruffled baby clothes. To match her contagious passion, Dee is extremely knowledgeable and eager to share her knowledge. Are you following her blog? You really should. You can also find her on Facebook under that blog’s name as well right here as under the new book’s title. She posts fabulous growing ideas nearly every day, and she is wonderful about answering gardening questions.
Now her first book is being released. The 20-30 Something Guide to Gardening. You can pre-order it on Amazon and I hope you do. I have been gifted a copy and am in love.
Dee’s book is aimed at young adults with an interest in growing their own food and flowers but perhaps also with a knowledge gap. She inspires and informs with page after page of easy but smart text and short, fun lists, all fully illustrated with her own drop-dead-gorgeous photos. I felt ahead of time that her book would be beautiful, but when I first saw the finished product I was floored.
As you thumb through it, you will feel your gardening energies bubble up to the surface just begging to be released onto the nearest expanse of dirt. She explains things so well that your fears dissolve into possibility. I really wish I had read this book when I was digging my first garden, and I intend to stockpile several copies to distribute to young people in my life.
I really cannot say enough about how much I appreciate my friendship with this woman. A little smidgen of Oklahoma luck brought us together as bloggers, and I look forward to knowing her and learning from her for a long time. Please check out her book and her blog. Please dig a garden and grow your own stuff. It’s just the way to do things.
Now let’s have a giveaway, shall we?
The prizes available right here at the Lazy W are just lovely. I want them myself! Big thank you owed to Longfield Gardens, you can win 25 daffodil bulbs and 25 tulip bulbs, a grand total of 50 high quality, colorful flowering bulbs for your garden! Remember, you can plant these pretty things in a million ways, maybe in a border and maybe in your edible garden. Read Dee’s book for suggestions. ; )
(I’m so jealous of whoever wins this!)
- Comment here, telling me what you grow or what you want to grow.
- Subscribe to new posts from the Lazy W.
- Follow me on Twitter (@thelazyw) and tell me howdy.
- Tweet about this giveaway and let me know you did.
- Share this giveaway on Facebook and let me know you did.
- “Like” this blog on Facebook and say howdy.
- “Like” Dee’s blog on Facebook and let me know you did.
- Visit as many of the other fabulous bloggers also participating and share in their giveaway fun, too. Dee keeps really good company! I am humbled to be included.
- The giveaway is open right now and all week, right up until next Sunday, February 23rd.
- Check back in anytime and watch for the winner to be announced on Monday, February 24.
- This giveaway is limited to the United States, for shipping reasons only.
Enter as often as you please. I am so excited for one of you to get your hands on these flower bulbs and for ALL of you to get your hands on this book! I already love mine.
Now, before you go… Remember to spend a few minutes visiting each of these wonderful ladies. You can glean something different from each of them and WIN something different, too:
- Shawna Coronado website — gift certificate to High Country Gardens for a Summer Dreams Garden.
- Whitney Curtis at the Curtis Casa — David Austin Rose, ‘Princess Alexandra of Kent’ and Authentic Haven Brand Moo Poo Tea.
- Colleen Dieter at Red Wheelbarrow Plants — Garden Girl shorts and Fiskars PowerGear 18” loppers.
- Robin Haglund at Garden Mentors — Buckaroo Worm Castings, a hula planter and Empire Soil Builder, from Sanctuary Soil.
- Rachel Hough at The Domestic Artiste — Fiskars Tools, two sets of loppers, one is the PowerGear Lopper 32” and the other Power-Lever 28”.
- Niki Jabbour at Niki Jabbour, The Year Round Veggie Gardener.
- Carmen Johnston at Carmen Johnston Gardens — Garden Girl pants with knee pads and a David Austin rose, ‘The Alnwick Rose’ catalog link for ordering bare root roses.
- Carol Michel at May Dreams Gardens — DeWit Tool kit and Botanical Interests Organic Heirloom Seed Bank Collection.
- Pam Penick at Digging — Three small Bee Preservers, www.
glassgardensnw.com. - Jenny Peterson and J. Peterson Garden Design — SeedKeepers Deluxe seedkeeper and Burlap Girdle.
- Genevieve Schmidt at North Coast Gardening — Annie’s Annuals gift certificate and Keira Watering Cans.
- Marie Wreath at the (Not Always) Lazy W — Longfield Gardens tulips & daffs
Aren’t those all great prizes?
Warmest congratulations, Dee! I am so happy for you. And I am so grateful for the incredible amount of passion and expertise you poured into this work. What will you write for us next?
Happy gardening!
XOXOXOXO
What a great party for Dee and her book. Can’t wait to read the book. I grow native plants and some non-natives. I also grow veggies and I love bulbs. I certainly can always find room for more daffs and tulips. I have visited your blog FB and Dee’s blog FB pages and liked them. And I will support all the bloggers who are helping Dee and visit their posts.
I am starting a new garden this spring since I moved last fall, and flower bulbs would be awesome. I am planning a herb garden and vegetables. I love growing things you can eat like basil, oregano, tomatoes, and peppers. But I also enjoy flowers including sunflowers. I’ve never been able to grow bulbs successfully since I’ve only lived in arid regions, but now I live in Connecticut and I would love to grow daffodils and tulips.
Dee’s book looks really practical, just like having a grandparent (not that Dee is older) show you all the little things to help your garden be successful.
Can’t wait to read dee’s book and to start following your blog. I grow fruit, veggies, and flowers and want to grow EVERYTHING! I have a preschool teaching garden and we are expanding for the spring into the adjacent lot, we do raised beds and I have learned so much from dee as I have just begun gardening. the kids are so excited about the expansion and planting things for spring.
This year I’m looking to grow tree collards for even more winter vegetables for myself & our chickens & goats.
I would like to grow bulbs in my garden…..especially those you have to offer! Thanks for a great blog.
I grow mainly shade loving perennials such a primroses, Trillium, Hellebores, Epimedium and many others on my shady piece of heaven here in Vermont.
Shared your blog on face book!
And I ‘liked’ Dee’s facebook page too!
Everywhere I have lived I have always grown roses but this fall I got the property of my dreams and want to plant bulbs, fruit trees and bushes, and a heirloom vegetable garden
I plant a vegetable garden every year which includes tomatoes, peppers, and red beets among others. I also have a rose garden with about 40 bushes, a perinneal garden, and a bed of daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths.
I subscribed to your newsletter
I followed you on Twitter and said “Howdy”! LOL
I tweeted about the giveaway! https://twitter.com/CarolYemola/status/435150667116597249
I shared on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/carol.yemola/posts/632287306838445?stream_ref=1
I follow Dee’s blog, Red Dirt Ramblings! I have for quite a while!
I have liked your blog, The (Not Always) Lazy W blog, and told you “Howdy!”. LOL
Great give-a-way. Thanks.
I’m new in this weather and happy to find Dee’s book!
My mouth drools at the thought of these beautiful bulbs coming up in my gardens. The harbingers of spring and summer to come. I will be adding your blog to my own blog Southern Gardens at http://pdgardener.com/
I try growing most everything I can. Always open to give a plant a chance.
We grow most of all our own veggies and try to put a freezer full as well as canning. I also keep up a victory garden where all the produce goes to food pantry and nursing homes
Ooohhh I’ve never tried bulbs before. What am I waiting for?
We have a pretty large garden and are excited to add chickens to the mix this year. Can’t to feed them from our own garden.
One thing I’ve never tried to grow is my own garlic– which I have heard is easy to do (
and we sure do use enough of it around here.) I might give it a try later this year. Thanks for the chance to win!
That’s a lot of beautiful bulbs! Thx for participating, Marie.
I have all new gardening space this year, cut down some trees and now I have sun! I can’t wait to have some sun loving plants in my garden!
What a great looking book and a fun idea! would love this giveaway — this harsh Chicago winter has really gotten me down. 🙂
I love daffodils and tulips! This would be so fun to plant with my boys and watch them grow.
I grow mostly vegetables, and a few perennial flowers.
After this long long winter, I’m looking forward to seeing some bulbs up and blooming! I’d like to add more, thanks for the opportunity!
So excited for Dee’s book! I’m a huge lover of spring bulbs, and our daffs are about 4″ up already. I already follow Dee’s blog.
Followed you on Twitter, FB, and tweeted about the giveaway.
I have a small veggie garden and a perennial bed on the curb, but mostly I have shade, so I have a lot of ferns, hydrangeas, hostas, etc.
I followed you on Twitter from @poodle_power
I tweeted the giveaway https://twitter.com/poodle_power/status/435644554654384128
I liked you on facebook
I love bulbs! I have a lot and they are starting to bloom now…the narcissus, leucojum, crocus and more. What I don’t have are tulips. Would love to try some!
I have a perineal garden and a small vegetable garden. I seem to grow a lot of different salvias. I love the variety and how hummingbirds flock to most of them.
I followed you on twitter.
I already subscribe to Dee’s blog
THANK YOU IT WILL BE A PLEASURE TO WIN THESE BULBS –all mine died and havent bought any recently –thank you and looking forward to reading more about your page —its been fun reading about this book thats Dee Nash wrote and exciting to try and win as well
Hi! I remember when Dee went to visit you and posted pics of you! It’s really nice of you to support Dee and her new book! Thanks!
We grow edibles right now, but I’d love to have a beautiful cutting garden!
I tweeted here: https://twitter.com/HollyStormEtsy/status/435900268354342912
Here in North Florida, I grow daffodils, crocus, and hyacinths. Sometimes I grow tulips but I am too lazy to dig them up and chill them, so I treat them as annuals.
I would love to try to grow tulips.
Shared on Facebook!
This is such a lovely giveaway – I’ve ordered the book online, and this 20-something gardener is eagerly awaiting its arrival. I have one largely-native wildflower garden, another flower garden for non-natives, and several raised vegetable beds. Can’t wait to get some new inspiration and ideas from Dee Nash!
I plant a wide variety of veggies in my garden. I’m really looking forward to spring so I can get going.
I think this may be the year that i try to grow sunflowers. And not just the ones that the birds poop out below the bird feeder, either. 🙂
I love tulips!
What a great idea for a book launch! Thanks for letting me join in the fun. Enjoyed the blog.
Just started my gardening adventure last year and I would one to add some bulbs to the mix!
Dee’s book looks wonderful! Love your pics and would love visiting too.
I grow a variety of plants, but I really love the daffodils in that photo (and therefore want to grow them!)
I would love to have more daffodils to add to my collection – it’s what makes spring in Oklahoma so beautiful! Looking forward to Dee’s book.
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