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(L)eavesdropping
“What’s your favorite plant?” “How do you get rid of a stump?” “Who are you and what are you doing in my flower bed, weirdo?”
Stray too far into any garden and such are the questions you might overhear before the police show up to escort you away. Eavesdrop with Luke Ruggenberg, however, and you’ll have no choice but to linger within earshot as an offbeat group of gardeners hash out their feelings on topics both mundane and absurd. Listen in as they haggle over the resale value of used gardening tools, discuss backyard solutions to the apocalypse, and struggle to raise the next generation of gardeners. Perk your ears long enough and you might even discover the ultimate prize in store for whoever wins this crazy game we call gardening.
From the harebrained horticulturist who brought you “Plants are Terrible People,” and “Twenty Reasons Not To Garden (And Why I Ignore Them All),” comes a freshly composted collection of hysterical and disarming conversations about life, love, and the loamy limits of sanity.
Stray too far into any garden and such are the questions you might overhear before the police show up to escort you away. Eavesdrop with Luke Ruggenberg, however, and you’ll have no choice but to linger within earshot as an offbeat group of gardeners hash out their feelings on topics both mundane and absurd. Listen in as they haggle over the resale value of used gardening tools, discuss backyard solutions to the apocalypse, and struggle to raise the next generation of gardeners. Perk your ears long enough and you might even discover the ultimate prize in store for whoever wins this crazy game we call gardening.
From the harebrained horticulturist who brought you “Plants are Terrible People,” and “Twenty Reasons Not To Garden (And Why I Ignore Them All),” comes a freshly composted collection of hysterical and disarming conversations about life, love, and the loamy limits of sanity.
199 pages, Paperback
Published August 25, 2021
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About the author
Luke Ruggenberg
3 books1 followerLuke Ruggenberg was born in the Snohomish River valley of Western Washington. Despite (or perhaps because of) a childhood spent dodging falling apples in his Dad's orchard, he kept dormant a love of all things horticultural until college, when his brother showed him how to germinate an avocado pit. He changed his major to Botany sometime the following week and never looked back, except on occasion to question the whole episode as one does a fevered dream.
In the years since, Luke has honed his skills both as a horticulturist—working as a professional gardener and nurseryman—and a writer. He is the author of "Plants are Terrible People" and "Twenty Reasons Not To Garden (And Why I Ignore Them All)." These works are perhaps the sole representatives of the literary genre "Absurd Gardening Miscellany." He still is not quite sure how he found the time to write them, nor why, exactly, he felt compelled to do so. Suffice it to say that unifying all his work is a strained—but committed!—love/hate relationship with the garden, which can only come from a career bent beneath heavy flats of beautiful plants.
Luke lives in the Seattle area with his amazing wife and two children, who seem to tolerate him most of the time. This fact makes him want to high-five random passers by. For a digital high-five, check him out on Twitter or Instagram, or stop by his cheeky gardening blog "Fencebroke Promontory Gardens."
In the years since, Luke has honed his skills both as a horticulturist—working as a professional gardener and nurseryman—and a writer. He is the author of "Plants are Terrible People" and "Twenty Reasons Not To Garden (And Why I Ignore Them All)." These works are perhaps the sole representatives of the literary genre "Absurd Gardening Miscellany." He still is not quite sure how he found the time to write them, nor why, exactly, he felt compelled to do so. Suffice it to say that unifying all his work is a strained—but committed!—love/hate relationship with the garden, which can only come from a career bent beneath heavy flats of beautiful plants.
Luke lives in the Seattle area with his amazing wife and two children, who seem to tolerate him most of the time. This fact makes him want to high-five random passers by. For a digital high-five, check him out on Twitter or Instagram, or stop by his cheeky gardening blog "Fencebroke Promontory Gardens."
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