Book description
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. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of
the Year Award. 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. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of
the Year Award.
