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A Few Flowers For My Soul:
A Gardener’s View of the Healing Power of Cut Flowers
6 x 6.687; 192 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-891799-89-1
Hardback- $18.95
Publication Date: Spring 2007
Harbor House
The Georgia Flower Lady explains
A Few Flowers for My Soul:
What started as tending seeds in the hard Georgia soil evolved into a collection of touching, emotional stories on the beauty of human connection. By selling our home-grown flowers each week at a small town square, we learned more life lessons than we ever expected--from love and admiration to sorrow and mourning. We also came to realize how much these stories had touched our lives and changed them forever.
PRAISE FOR A Few Flowers For My Soul
"Part love story, part tutorial, part ode to the South, I found myself transported to what can only be quite a magical place--Robbie Williams' garden at Chinaberry Ranch! Her passion for people is joyous! And her passion for cut flowers is infectious! Only wish I had some of those Iceland Poppies I just learned about adorning my table!"
--Heidi J. Diamond, former President, Martha Stewart Living Television
"Robbie Williams reminds us that simple acts of kindness through gifts like flowers can nourish us through it all. She writes about my mother's friends. Even if I had not known each one, I would have recognized them, not just by their respective flowers, but also by their love for their community, their families and each other. Williams reminded me why I am glad I grew up in the South, and if you did not, her book will make you wish you had."
--Dubose Porter, Editor, The Courier Herald
"A lovingly crafted personal narrative of beauty, friendship and understanding set in the heart of the rural South. A must-read book for those who understand the language of flowers."
--William Rawlings, Jr., four-time novelist and sixth-generation resident of Sandersville
"As I read, I cried a little, smiled a little, and laughed a little. I was right there in the midst of all your stories....Anyone who picks up your book and reads it will not only have an enjoyable read, but will learn about the power of cut flowers, how to grow them, how their beauty can bring a smile to the face of a loved one, how they can heal or mend a broken heart, and bring back memories that we've pushed to the back of our minds."
--Dollie T. Harper, President of The Garden Club of Georgia , 2005-2007
"For the past 40 years, Robbie Williams has been coaxing flowers out of the ground and onto dining room tables and mantelpieces throughout her Georgia community. With a flowering garden at the center of her life, Williams has learned some things that most of the rest of us can best learn from her. In a world where our views are shaped by statisticians and medical practitioners and computers, Williams's worldview is informed by flowering plants--their great beauty, their seeming delicacy, their true hardiness, their usefulness in times of cheer and in times of despair--and a wonderful, and sensible, vision it is. Here are the warm and thoughtful observations of a devoted plantswoman who knows that each flower species has its own personality, and that each will have much in common with the people who choose that particular species to love above all others. Those of us who have evolved from apes can only envy Williams in her assertion that she has evolved from a flowering plant, as this small volume proves."
--Ingrid Eisenstadter, The New York Botanical Garden,
GARDEN Magazine, former Editor-in-Chief
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