Excerpt from Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall

Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening

How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart

by Carol Wall
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  • Mar 4, 2014, 304 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Feb 2015, 304 pages
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His name was Giles Owita, and from the start, something flowered between us and around us. First he became my gardener, and then he became my friend. And while I knew from the moment I met him that he was something special—truly, I didn't know the half of it.

 

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Excerpted from Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carolyn Wall. Copyright © 2014 by Carolyn Wall. Excerpted by permission of Amy Einhorn Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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