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A Year of Garden-Inspired Living: Season by Season
Bring simplicity and grace into your life, garden, home, and community with this treasured collection of ideas and daily inspiration from garden lifestyle guru Linda Vater.
Whether it’s connecting with a neighbor over a bowl of homemade soup, displaying a much-adored collection of books, creating personalized seed packets, setting a beautiful seasonal tablescape, or compiling a basket of comforts for someone in need, author Linda Vater (@potagerblog) has gathered a wealth of reflections on how to make the ordinary extraordinary and bring the joy of the garden’s seasons back into your life.
Each page features a narrative story about a special life moment, followed by an idea for bringing that moment to fruition in your own life, all organized by the season. Beautiful watercolor illustrations add further inspiration and a spark of creativity to the notion on each page.
A small sampling of the guidance found inside
Giving a house blessing to a brand-new homeownerPicking a seasonal wardrobe “piece” and letting it shineSpreading seeds in an old spice jarBeing intentionally inefficientWearing your garden boots with a flouncy dressWelcoming friends and neighbors to cut bouquets from your gardenHaving a “ladybug party” for the children in your lifeCreating herbal bouquets for cookingMaking and displaying decorative fall leaf bouquets
And so much more!
A Year of Garden-Inspired Living offers an elegant yet easy way to bring the joys and textures of seasonal living into your daily life, welcoming peace and connection to your days and restoring the balance of nature’s seasons in your home and life.
Whether it’s connecting with a neighbor over a bowl of homemade soup, displaying a much-adored collection of books, creating personalized seed packets, setting a beautiful seasonal tablescape, or compiling a basket of comforts for someone in need, author Linda Vater (@potagerblog) has gathered a wealth of reflections on how to make the ordinary extraordinary and bring the joy of the garden’s seasons back into your life.
Each page features a narrative story about a special life moment, followed by an idea for bringing that moment to fruition in your own life, all organized by the season. Beautiful watercolor illustrations add further inspiration and a spark of creativity to the notion on each page.
A small sampling of the guidance found inside
Giving a house blessing to a brand-new homeownerPicking a seasonal wardrobe “piece” and letting it shineSpreading seeds in an old spice jarBeing intentionally inefficientWearing your garden boots with a flouncy dressWelcoming friends and neighbors to cut bouquets from your gardenHaving a “ladybug party” for the children in your lifeCreating herbal bouquets for cookingMaking and displaying decorative fall leaf bouquets
And so much more!
A Year of Garden-Inspired Living offers an elegant yet easy way to bring the joys and textures of seasonal living into your daily life, welcoming peace and connection to your days and restoring the balance of nature’s seasons in your home and life.
- GenresGardening
213 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 21, 2025
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November 24, 2025
This book has a very deceiving title. There is nothing in here that is garden related. It's more about ideas for incorporating the seasons into your daily life. Each season has several vignettes with illustrations about ideas for how to embrace that season. But the vignettes are written in a weird third-person way - like are these her friends? Are they made up characters? It is just a weird way to write the book. It's a good premise but needs a better title that reflects what the content actually is and a better way to present the ideas. Would not recommend this one.
December 11, 2025
Rating: 4* of five
The Publisher Says: A Year of Garden-Inspired Living is a giftable homage to living seasonally and is filled with inspiration for creating a garden-inspired life of grace and abundance. Bring simplicity and grace into your life, garden, home, and community with this treasured collection of ideas and daily inspiration from garden lifestyle guru Linda Vater.
Whether it’s connecting with a neighbor over a bowl of homemade soup, displaying a much-adored collection of books, creating personalized seed packets, setting a beautiful seasonal tablescape, or compiling a basket of comforts for someone in need, author Linda Vater (@potagerblog) has gathered a wealth of reflections on how to make the ordinary extraordinary and bring the joy of the garden’s seasons back into your life.
Each page features a narrative story about a special life moment, followed by an idea for bringing that moment to fruition in your own life, all organized by the season. Beautiful watercolor illustrations add further inspiration and a spark of creativity to the notion on each page.
A small sampling of the guidance found inside includes:
Giving a house blessing to a brand-new homeowner
Picking a seasonal wardrobe “piece” and letting it shine
Spreading seeds in an old spice jar
Being intentionally inefficient
Wearing your garden boots with a flouncy dress
Welcoming friends and neighbors to cut bouquets from your garden
Having a “ladybug party” for the children in your life
Creating herbal bouquets for cooking
Making and displaying decorative fall leaf bouquets
And so much more!
A Year of Garden-Inspired Living offers an elegant yet easy way to bring the joys and textures of seasonal living into your daily life, welcoming peace and connection to your days and restoring the balance of nature’s seasons in your home and life.
I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.
My Review: Charming, gentle anecdotes centered on a woman's garden as she moves through her very aspirationally bourgeois year.
Interesting reading for a resolute urbanite who quails inwardly at the notion of suburbia. I was fascinated by this Junior-League vision of a leisurely life I'd thought was dead. No one I know who isn't retired has this kind of time to putter and potter and coddiwomple hither, thither, and yon to be a willing slave to a bunch of botanical divas.
Absorbing, in a very retro way. Belong to a gardening club? The girls'll love this!
we're going hard on seasonality
This is, I'd guess, a gift item for your older female friends who do the relaxed lifestyle and would enjoy learning how to put some intentionality into the day. Rhythms of the seasons always make life feel purposeful, add that sense of being in a world larger and more...complete...than one's private world.
These samples of the design style might tell you what my review can't:
You get the picture...all very focused, true to an aesthetic, and sharply defined by softness and gentle colors.
The Publisher Says: A Year of Garden-Inspired Living is a giftable homage to living seasonally and is filled with inspiration for creating a garden-inspired life of grace and abundance. Bring simplicity and grace into your life, garden, home, and community with this treasured collection of ideas and daily inspiration from garden lifestyle guru Linda Vater.
Whether it’s connecting with a neighbor over a bowl of homemade soup, displaying a much-adored collection of books, creating personalized seed packets, setting a beautiful seasonal tablescape, or compiling a basket of comforts for someone in need, author Linda Vater (@potagerblog) has gathered a wealth of reflections on how to make the ordinary extraordinary and bring the joy of the garden’s seasons back into your life.
Each page features a narrative story about a special life moment, followed by an idea for bringing that moment to fruition in your own life, all organized by the season. Beautiful watercolor illustrations add further inspiration and a spark of creativity to the notion on each page.
A small sampling of the guidance found inside includes:
Giving a house blessing to a brand-new homeowner
Picking a seasonal wardrobe “piece” and letting it shine
Spreading seeds in an old spice jar
Being intentionally inefficient
Wearing your garden boots with a flouncy dress
Welcoming friends and neighbors to cut bouquets from your garden
Having a “ladybug party” for the children in your life
Creating herbal bouquets for cooking
Making and displaying decorative fall leaf bouquets
And so much more!
A Year of Garden-Inspired Living offers an elegant yet easy way to bring the joys and textures of seasonal living into your daily life, welcoming peace and connection to your days and restoring the balance of nature’s seasons in your home and life.
I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.
My Review: Charming, gentle anecdotes centered on a woman's garden as she moves through her very aspirationally bourgeois year.
Interesting reading for a resolute urbanite who quails inwardly at the notion of suburbia. I was fascinated by this Junior-League vision of a leisurely life I'd thought was dead. No one I know who isn't retired has this kind of time to putter and potter and coddiwomple hither, thither, and yon to be a willing slave to a bunch of botanical divas.
Absorbing, in a very retro way. Belong to a gardening club? The girls'll love this!
we're going hard on seasonality
This is, I'd guess, a gift item for your older female friends who do the relaxed lifestyle and would enjoy learning how to put some intentionality into the day. Rhythms of the seasons always make life feel purposeful, add that sense of being in a world larger and more...complete...than one's private world.
These samples of the design style might tell you what my review can't:
You get the picture...all very focused, true to an aesthetic, and sharply defined by softness and gentle colors.
November 6, 2025
This book is a nod and reminder of how to romanticize your life and daily habits. As always, I can hear her talk as she writes. A true gem of a person!
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