A Year of Garden-Inspired Living Book Review – Elegant, Entertaining Micro-Stories, Practical Ideas
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- Category: Haute This Issue
- Published on Friday, 04 September 2026 10:31
- Written by Janet Walker
A Year of Garden-Inspired Living Season by Season, from Cool Springs Press and Quarto Publishing Group, invites readers to rediscover time, and through simple tips and micro short stories, welcome life with joy and connection.
Author Leslie Vater, across the 208 pages, introduces her elegant and soft style of presenting an idea into a readers life, as change is seldom welcomed, the simple suggestions often can bring about a desired shift toward growth, betterment, and yes, change.
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Once readers move beyond the "Introduction," as the author prepares readers for this tome of treasured home décor ideas and lifestyle changes, that incorporate each season into the home, she asks: "Why Not Try . . . Experiencing the seasons purposely, consciously, lovingly and stylishly?"
A Year of Garden-Inspired Living Season by Season is divided into four seasonal sections, "Wintering," "Springing," "Summering," and Autumning." The decorative table of content also includes under each seasonal chapter adjectives to describe each month, and each chapter is identical in the offerings such as "In the Home," "in the Garden, " :In Your Signature Style," "In Celebration," "In Daily Practice."
The book opens in "Winter," the traditional season of holidays, parties, decorating the home, and as Vatner added in the chapter description, "nesting, hibernating, whispering, cocooning, flickering, and hungering."
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Thumbing through the book, each chapter page is an overview of the usual months associated with the season and readers will be treated to micro-short stories as the lead in with an illustration and tips at the end beginning with the author's signature phrase, "Why Not Try?"
As the pages of the calendar always turns, the author moves into "Springing," the season of blooming, refreshing, unfurling, cleansing, sprouting and buzzing. For those who live in areas where there are actually four dedicated seasons, spring is more than a date on the calendar, suddenly the temperatures are rising, the days are sunny, and the birds are singing. We have passed through another winter season and risen on the other side, alive, fresh, renewed!
As "Summering" rolls around, we are met with mini stories on escaping the heat, entertaining outdoors, changing up the cloth napkins, gardening, and gifting neighbors before heading out on the annual vacation, each story followed by a 'why didn't I think of that' tip at the bottom of the page.
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With "Autumning," the author moves outside of home and décor tip to include personal style ideas and tips with Comfy weekend attire, a closet consultation, and as Autumn has long been considered a later season in one's life, even suggesting that now is the time to ensure all necessary documents are signed and completed.
Stylishly presented author and lifestyle expert Linda Vater, has also author The Elegant and Edible Garden, provides home and décor aficionados with an introduction and a suggestive tip to begin the thought process to determine whether the simple gesture can be incorporated easily.
With more than 200 attractive and elegant, water-colored styled illustrations throughout A Year of Garden-Inspired Living Season by Season, is more than incorporating traditional garden ideas and uses the seasons metaphorically to represent times both on the calendar and in life, and with each she introduces her ideas with inspired micro-stories relating to the season, some whimsical, of distant locales, romance, and intrigue as she end with a signature home, garden, décor, style or life tip.
A Year of Garden-Inspired Living Season by Season is available online and in book stores.
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Title: A Year of Garden-Inspired Living Season by Season.
Author: Linda Vater.
Language: English.
Release Date: October 2025.
Publisher: Quarto Publishing/Cool Springs Press.
Cover Design and Page Layout: Cindy Samargia Laun.
Front Cover Illustration: Sodel Vladyslav/ Adobe Stock and Daiyan MD Talha / Adobe Stock.
Illustrations: Brianna Kranz.
Images: Used with Permission.
Length: 208 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-7603-9515-8.
MSRP: $30.99 (U.S.), £22.00 (UK), $40.00 (CAN.).
Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade. A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Under the banner of her production company, HL Productions, LLC, Ms. Walker has completed five screenplays "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She has also published "Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story," and "Days, Times, Seasons, and Events: A Collection of Poetry & Prose," which can be purchased here. She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a member of the International Federation of Journalists.
