Ma Frump's Cultural Guide to Plastic Gardening: A Humorous Guide to Colorful All-Season Gardening with Plastic Plants and Flowers

By Marcia Muth

Do you want to spend less time gardening? Are you looking for ways to save water? Have you been disappointed in the way your garden turned out? Do you dread the dull winter months? Do you understand the true meaning of “garden loveliness”? Do you want people to stop by your garden and exclaim in surprise and wonder at what they see? Ma Frump has colorful answers to these questions and many helpful suggestions that will make you a happy gardener wherever you live and in all seasons of the year in ways that you won’t believe…until you’ve tried. MARCIA MUTH is an American folk artist. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1919 and grew up in Indiana and western New York State. She received degrees from the University of Michigan and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work is in private and public collections including The Jewish Museum (New York), The Albuquerque Museum, Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe) and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (Beaumont). She is the author of thirteen books including “A World Set Apart, Memory Paintings.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Release date: Jan 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781611390544

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Why Plastic Gardening?

I have often been asked, Why plastic gardening? This is a question frequently asked my by friends, acquaintances and even strangers! I have become accustomed not only to the question, but to the exclamations and expressions of wonderment when my garden is viewed. Just the other day a friend asked, How can you do it?

It would be easy to remain modest about my gardening methods, but friends have prevailed upon me to share my gardening concepts with the world at large. I can only hope that you, my readers, will get as much pleasure and happiness from your plastic garden as I get from mine. This is why I have used the word cultural in connection with this kind of gardening, for it is a cultural experience as well as a way of beautifying the world around you.

Plastic gardening is the gardening of the future right now! It has many advantages and the most important is that it is ecologically sound! No need to wonder any more how you can do your bit for the troubled earth! No, now you can plant your plastic garden and hold your head up in any ecology group. Just think of it—plastic gardens do not have to be watered. They do not take valuable nutriments from the soil. They never require any applications of sprays or dangerous insecticide powders. Plastic gardens are the answer to the ecologist’s nightmare and the gardener’s dream of eternal