On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA August-September 2016 | Page 21
GWAWRITES BOOKSTORE
FEATURES MEMBER’S BOOKS
GWA Members gathered for an early morning photo shoot at the newly
restored Naumkeag during the Region I Berkshire Cottages meeting in July.
They enjoyed a Continental breakfast in the Chinese Garden. Brian Cruey,
general manager of the Trustees of Reservations, gave an introduction to
this spectacular house with gardens that were designed in a singular 30-year
collaboration between Mabel Choate and Fletcher Steele.
PHOTO COURTESY JO ELLEN MEYERS SHARP
GWA is excited to announce the launch of
GWAWrites, a special online bookstore dedicated to
GWA book authors and their publications.
Two specialty shops have already been launched.
GWA Annual Conference & Expo includes Atlanta’s
speakers’ and presenters’ books. Hot Off the Press
lists books featured in On the QT. Additional shops
will be launched in the coming weeks focused on
specialty topics, including regional guide, cookbooks, garden design, sustainability and much more!
Books featured in these shops will be available for purchase via Amazon,
with a portion of the proceeds benefiting GWA and its programs.
Interested in submitting your book for inclusion? Please fill out the
GWAWrites Submission Form. Only those works of GWA members will be
included in GWAWrites. For questions, please call 212-297-2198.
PHOTO COURTESY KIRK R. BROWN
BY A S H L E Y H O D A K S U L L I VA N
Ashley Hodak Sullivan is deputy executive director for GWA.
HOTOFF
the press
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Lawrence Sherk
150 Years of Canadian Beer Labels
Touch Wood Editions
208 pages, $29.95
Available November 2016
About 50 GWA members from the United States and Canada were among the
10,000 attendees at Cultivate’16 in July. AmericanHort provided free admission
to the 1,000-booth trade show and dozens of education programs for GWA
members—a tremendous benefit. AmericanHort also treated members to lunch
and provided a room for a Connect meeting that about 40 people attended.
PHOTO COURTESY BRIE ARTHUR
Many GWA members know Lawrence Sherk as a horticulturist, but history
is his first love. Sherk’s new book explores Canada’s beer-brewing history
through the artwork of ales, porters, lagers, and malts. In 2011, he donated
nearly 3,000 of his beer labels, most of them dating from before 1945, to
the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library at the University of Toronto.
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Larry Weaner and Thomas Christopher
Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes
Can Be a Source of Environmental Change
Timber Press • 328 pages, $39.95
Published May 2016
Larry Weaner and GWA member Thomas
Christopher say that traditional gardening
practices are time consuming and labor
intensive, and they result in landscapes that require constant upkeep.
But there’s a better way. By following ecological principles, we can have
landscapes that evolve over time, are alive with color and are friendly
to local wildlife—with much less work and effort.
Nearly 100 horticulturists, designers, writers, marketers, and others gathered
for GWA’s NextGen Summit: New Routes to Horticulture, a daylong program at
Longwood Gardens, Aug. 6. Industry experts presented programs, including
trends, digital strategies, living landscapes, urban infrastructure, and green roof
technology to the group at Longwood. Later that day, participants enjoyed a
reception at Chanticleer, which included a dip in the pool.
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