A Shallow Hole
Written: May 15 '00
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Pros: enthusiastic and easy to read
Cons: not enough detail and sense of adventure
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| jcgrow's Full Review: Rebecca's Garden Magazine |
Rebecca's Garden is a fine magazine, but not a great one. If what you're looking for is something on the order of Better Homes and Gardens or Martha Stewart's Living, then by all means get Rebecca's Garden instead. She's more real, writing about gardening instead of making doilies out of used coffee filters. Amen to that.
However, if you are more focused on learning about gardening there are several other magazines which are much more useful. For those of you just starting out, Organic Gardening is a better idea, giving a combination of basic information and subtle techniques for creating a garden that is healthy in all ways. For the intermediate or advanced gardener, Horticulture is the way to go, although at times its articles are little more than elaborate lists of new hybrids.
What the above magazines have that Rebecca's Garden does not is a sense of style which begins in the garden. Rebecca's Garden seems to be written for people who are afraid of getting dirty. Everything is always neat and tidy in the pictures, and real gardens are just not that way, nor should they be. The semi-wild nature of an established flower bed is much more appealing to the senses than the Disney World horticulture that Rebecca so often profiles.
All in all, there's not really anything wrong with Rebecca's Garden. The magazine could be better, if only it was willing to dig deeper beneath the surface.
Recommended:
No
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