I received quite a few responses to the post on Michelle Yeaton’s Garage Sale Garden. Within hours of the post, I was receiving emails and twitters asking for more information. I promise to do more on Michelle after the holidays. With today’s economic situation, it looks like we are all searching for creative and inexpensive ways to garden.
In the meantime, I discovered a great new British book on a similar subject called The Thrifty Gardener by Alys Fowler. There was a short blurb about it in the UK Gardeners World Magazine saying Fowler has lots of ideas for combining easy and innovative recycling with gardening. YES!
If you are in the UK, you can order it right now from EFC Books. But here in the states, it will not come out until March 2009 and then, it will be a different version with a different title. (Bummer)
Here is what the EFC Books website has to say about the book:
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So, it looks like we will have to wait here for the American version which is called Garden Anywhere. Why in the world would they change the title so dramatically? It gives a whole different impression of what the book is about. I just hope it is not watered down. I want the full version with all the garden recycling ideas.
You can add it to your wish list on Amazon.com so that you will know when it comes out.
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That is very strange indeed about the drastic title change.
This one sentence, “…a DIY ethic that says you don’t always have to buy what you need, you can make it, take it or swap it with friends”, really spoke to me. I completely agree and am trying to integrate it into my own life.
Apparently there are many British books that are published in the US under new titles. I have actually purchased books here only to discover later that I had it already under a different title! (I bought many gardening books when I went to London a few years ago.)
One publisher told me that they change the title for many reasons. Sometimes it is because there is already a book out with the British title and sometimes they feel the audience is different here and therefore they need a new slant. Interesting…And frustrating at the same time!
How annoying to discover you have the exact copy under a different name! (Of course, I have been known to re-buy the same book with the same title…well, if it was good the first time…right? LOL! No, I just have a very bad memory.)
I do understand about a title being taken already in a different country, but I think they should also make a note of that on the cover…something like “Published in the UK as ___”.