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Authors Christina Symons and John Gillespie go on tour to promote their new eco-friendly gardening book Sow Simple
Sow Simple offers over a hundred fun and eco-friendly gardening projects
Some gardeners just always leave you inspired. Authors Christina Symons and her partner John Gillespie are two such people. Both leave a trail of beauty wherever they go – John with the amazing landscapes he designs and plants and Christina with all of her beautiful eco-inspired garden and home ideas that she subsequently photographs.
Between the two, they have amassed an incredible body of design, garden-to-kitchen and garden-planting knowledge and inspiration, with the three Rs – reduce, reuse and recycle – as their golden rule. (Check out their recycled flowerpot kitchen pendant and Friday night lights.
Over the next couple of weeks, John and Christina are on a road trip to launch their newly published second book, Sow Simple: 100+ Green and Easy Projects to Make Your Garden Awesome.
I know this book well, having given them a hand with the editing: it’s a generous volume of ecological step-by-step gardening tips and ideas with the gorgeous results photographed by Christina. Literally a decade of inspiration is beautifully collected in both this and their first book, Everyday Eden: 100+ Fun, Green Garden Projects for the Whole Family to Enjoy.
Best of all, though, they are among the nicest people you will come across, so do take the time to go say hello and have a glass of their rhubarb lemonade if you can.
Join Christina Symons and John Gillespie for an evening full of fun garden tips and tricks and see a variety of sample projects from their new book, Sow Simple, that you can make at home (quirky concrete containers; how to propagate your own plants using magic willow rooting “juice”; a heart-pot trellis).
They will also demonstrate how to turn your garden into an exotic edible oasis and explain how to grow and blend your own healthy green teas. Refreshments will come from the book and workshop. For more information, phone Dig This! at (250) 585-0149 or email digthis.nanaimo@telus.net