| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 250 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
A garden like a life / Janice Emily Bowers -- The purpose of a garden / Samuel Reynolds Hole -- A shape of water / W.S. Merwin -- The garden / Andrew Marvell -- My invisible garden / Anne Raver -- Gardens of one colour / Vita Sackville-West -- My mother's garden / Paula Deitz -- The garden of Alcinous, from Homer's Odyssey, Book VII / translated by Alexander Pope -- Help / Eleanor Perényi -- Gardeners / Katherine Mansfield -- On the defiance of gardeners / Henry Mitchell -- Days are different / Geoffrey B. Charlesworth -- What is a garden, anyway? / Abby Adams -- Sunday in the garden with weeds / Sara Stein -- In search of plants / Thomas C. Cooper -- How the garden grows and grows / Henry Mitchell -- The secret of planting a garden / Helen Dillon -- Collectors / Ken Druse -- "Not a place to be happy in" / Elizabeth von Arnim -- Down and dirty / Cynthia Kling -- Gapers and crouchers / Mirabel Osler -- The unbehooved gardener / Julian Meade -- from the introduction to Onward and upward in the garden / E.B. White -- In searh of style / Russell Page -- from The Epistle to Burlington / Alexander Pope -- Plants do not a garden make / Gertrude Jekyll -- A question of design / Beverley Nichols -- Taste / Geoffrey B. Charlesworth -- Classical or romantic? / Stephen Lacey -- A gentle plea for chaos / Mirabel Osler -- Artful disorder / Vita Sackville-West -- Hurrah for vulgarity / Christopher Lloyd -- Don't build a water garden / Reginald Farrer -- Italian garden magic / Edith Wharton -- February / Joseph Wood Krutch -- The onset of spring / Elizabeth Lawrence -- The month of May / Richardson Wright -- Rain after drought / Gertrude Jekyll -- Summer / Robert Dash -- July / Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd -- The arrival of fall / Lauren Springer -- October / Carol Bishop Hipps -- A fire by ice / Jamaica Kincaid -- A garden song / Austin Dobson -- Childhood roses / M.F.K. Fisher -- Into the rose garden / Michael Pollan -- Horse-chestnut trees and roses / James Schuyler -- Thoughts on thistles / Robin Lane Fox -- June 29-30 / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Hydrangeas? Never! / Allen Lacy -- Flowers I love / Mary Russell Mitford -- A change of plans / Charles Kuralt -- The bean-field / Henry David Thoreau -- The day of the living dead / Patricia Thorpe -- Cuttings [later] / Theodore Roethke -- Magenta the maligned / Louise Beebe Wilder -- Scent and the gardener / Stephen Lacey -- The changing rose, the enduring cabbage / Katharine S. White -- I remember, I remember / Thalassa Cruso -- The feline touch / Beverley Nichols -- A mass of sooty, shapeless slime / Celia Thaxter -- Dust to dust: undertakings in the garden / Patti Hagan -- Time / Susan Hill and Rory Stuart |
| Subject |
Gardens -- Literary collections.
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Gardening -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Garmey, Jane.
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| ISBN |
1565121813 |
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9781565121812 |
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