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Ma Frump's Cultural Guide to Plastic Gardening

by Marcia Muth

A playful garden guide for year-round visual impact

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A playful garden guide for year-round visual impact

Marcia Muth frames gardening around practical concerns: reducing upkeep, conserving water, improving disappointing results, and bringing color to the winter months. The book gathers “Ma Frump’s” suggestions for creating garden displays meant to prompt surprise and curiosity, with advice presented as applicable across locations and seasons. Its compact format and emphasis on ornamental garden loveliness position it as an imaginative alternative to a conventional how-to manual, connecting horticultural concerns with the pleasures of display and decoration.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Gardeners seeking lower-maintenance, water-conscious ideas
  • People interested in ornamental outdoor displays across the seasons
  • Fans of unconventional gardening books with an artistic angle

Themes

Water conservationLow-maintenance gardeningOrnamental displaysSeasonal gardeningGarden design

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Book overview

Do you want to spend less time gardening? Are you looking for ways to save water? Have you been disappointed in the way your garden turned out? Do you dread the dull winter months? Do you understand the true meaning of "garden loveliness"? Do you want people to stop by your garden and exclaim in surprise and wonder at what they see? Ma Frump has colorful answers to these questions and many helpful suggestions that will make you a happy gardener wherever you live and in all seasons of the year. MARCIA MUTH is an American folk artist. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1919 and grew up in Indiana and western New York State. She received degrees from the University of Michigan and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work is in private and public collections including The Jewish Museum (New York), The Albuquerque Museum, Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe) and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (Beaumont). She is the author of thirteen books including "A World Set Apart, Memory Paintings."
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