Intends to take readers beyond her own garden, offering encouragement to gardeners, especially novices, to ignore books and try whatever appeals to them.
Intends to take readers beyond her own garden, offering encouragement to gardeners, especially novices, to ignore books and try whatever appeals to th...
In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks.
In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving ...
A host of vividly caught characters are here: Mirabel's extrovert, free-spirited mother Phyllis; Aylmer Vallance, who with extraordinary love letters would rescue her mother from a twilight life; Stella Bowen, Phyllis's lifelong friend and fellow student under Ezra Pound, their introduction to the London literati, notably Ford Madox Ford. Throughout Mirabel's childhood, it was Stella who would be the one fast colour amid her mercurial mother's love affairs.
Turning closer to the present - to new friendships, the paring away of previous assumptions and conventions and the...
A host of vividly caught characters are here: Mirabel's extrovert, free-spirited mother Phyllis; Aylmer Vallance, who with extraordinary love lette...
