Lemuria Bookstore Blog

As the garden section “in charge” person on staff, I get so excited when I hear of a new gardening book. By the time it arrives in the store, I have already thought  of how to market it and write about it. Three delightful Southern gardening books arrived this past year, so if someone asked [...]

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I have now found one of my all time favorite novels, and it will be my number ONE book to sell  for the holidays! So, “What is it?”, you ask! It is: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Naturally, because I am a flower lover and spend most of my spare time in my [...]

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I am really, really excited about the new Southern gardening book which just appeared in my gardening section by surprise a couple of weeks ago. Everyone who has looked at it agrees with me that it is a beautiful book, but also a “keeper” for Southern gardeners. The photos alone are “eye candy” for obsessed [...]

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As an avid gardener, I am always interested in the history of gardening, whether it be the immediate past history of my friends’ gardens, or the history of some of the first gardens of America. As a teenager, I followed my mother around Williamsburg, Virginia, studying the formal English based gardens of the Virginia planters. [...]

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Even though I live a few miles away from Jackson in a semi country-side, I have never had trouble with deer eating any of my flowers or plants, UNTIL this past fall. I guess I bragged to my neighbors, who had been battling the deer non-stop for many years, too much! So, I planted my [...]

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Springtime is certainly a wonderful time of year. From the extra-fragrant whiffs around every corner to the sudden increased numbers in the bird chorus, it’s hard to stay inside and miss the unfolding of a new season. The warming weather is my queue to get outside and into some potting soil. Last year, I started [...]

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Spring gloriously sprang into our lives a few weeks ago here in central Mississippi, but the calendar says the first actual day of spring was Sunday, March 20! Hurray, hurray, hurray for all of us gardeners, and a double hurray for the beginning of daylight savings time, which started a week ago! For avid gardeners, [...]

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I’m beginning to feel the gardening bug come to life again. I know, I know that is barely the middle of January, but, still, I feel it coming on. I know that my early blooming daffodils will be peaking their hopeful heads up through the cold damp earth in the next few weeks, and that [...]

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The moment I laid eyes on this book I knew I wanted to read it, and I found it to be beautiful both inside and out. Many years before “green” became fashionable, Alice Waters was living in Berkeley, California, running her own restaurant. Though she had been trained at the International Montessori School in London, [...]

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Some of Lemuria’s customers call me from time to time, even from other states, and ask me for suggestions for good gardening books since I am in charge of the gardening section. (I’ll be glad to help anyone in the store or over the phone for suggestions for Christmas gardening book gifts, a gift all [...]

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