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Writing the Garden

Author : Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567924611
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Garden written by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardening, more than most outdoor activities, has always attracted a cult of devotedly literate practitioners; people who like to dig, it would appear, also like to write. And many of them write exceedingly well. In this thoughtful, personal, and embracing consideration of garden writing, garden historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers selects and discusses the best of these writers. She makes her case by picking delightful examples that span two centuries, arranging the writers by what they did and how they saw themselves: nurserymen, foragers, conversationalists, philosophers, humorists, etc. Her discussions and appreciations of these diverse personalities are enhanced and supported by informed appraisals of their talents, obsessions, and idiosyncrasies, and by extensive extracts from their writings. Rogers provides historical background, anecdotal material, and insight into how these garden writers worked. And wherever appropriate, she illustrates her story with images from their books, so you can not only read what they wrote but also see what they were describing. Since gardens are by their very nature ephemeral, these visual clues from the pages of their books, many reproduced in color, are as close as we will come to the originals. What makes Writing the Garden such a joy to read is that it is not simply a collection of extracts, but real discussions and examinations of the personalities who made their mark on how we design, how we plant, and how we think about what is for many one of life's lasting pleasures. Starting with "Women in the Garden" (Jane Loudon, Frana-ces Garnet Wolseley, and Gertrude Jekyll) and concluding with "Philosophers in the Garden" (Henry David Thoa-reau, Michael Pollan, and Allen Lacy), this is a book that encompasses the full sweep of the best garden writing in the English language. Writing the Garden is co-published by the New York Society Library and the Foundation for Landscape Studies in association with David R. Godine, Publisher.

Bedside Companion for Gardeners

Author : Jane Mcmorland Hunter
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1849947139
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Bedside Companion for Gardeners written by Jane Mcmorland Hunter and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mix of fact and fiction, fantasy and experience, the Bedside Companion for Gardeners is a treasure trove of green-fingered inspiration where practical advice blends seamlessly with poetry and prose from intrepid gardeners past and present. Dip in and out of this collection with an entry for every night of the year that draws on writing through the ages and from across the globe. The Bedside Companion for Gardeners incorporates practical advice from the 17th-century gardening diarist John Evelyn; inspiring prose from Elizabeth von Arnim and John Milton; astute commentary from Horace Walpole on William Kent and Nancy Mitford on the vulgarity of a Surrey garden. Kipling offers practical advice, while Tennyson waxes lyrical on an Arabian night garden. The perfect gift for any gardener, this magical book is an invaluable source of inspiration and guidance to revisit throughout the year.

By Pen and by Spade

Author : David Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780862998820
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book By Pen and by Spade written by David Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Anthology of Garden Writing

Author : Ursula Buchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of Garden Writing written by Ursula Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pleasures of the Garden

Author : Christina Hardyment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712357203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Pleasures of the Garden written by Christina Hardyment and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of classic garden writing presents the garden as place of solace in our busy world, a retreat for lovers, and even an earthly paradise. Bringing together a wide range of voices from across the centuries and around the globe—from Pliny in first-century Italy to Robert Louis Stevenson in nineteenth-century Hawaii—Pleasures of the Garden features fiction and poetry, memoirs and letters, all in celebration of gardens. The gardens themselves vary widely, too, including the stately landscaped parks of Georgian England, the exquisitely managed gardens of Japan, and the painterly gardens of the Arts and Crafts movement. At times lyrical and light-hearted, at others analytic or inspirational, the works compiled here from such authors as Jane Austen, Rudyard Kipling, Charlotte Brontë, Alexander Pope, D. H. Lawrence, and many more reveal that gardens have long nurtured much more than the plants they contain—their peace, order, and seclusion also have a long tradition of inspiring the pen and fueling the soul. Our backyard gardens may not compare with the long-lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but Pleasures of the Garden reminds us that they are nonetheless part of a long and storied tradition. No green thumb should be without it.

The Writer in the Garden

Author : Jane Garmey
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202483
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Writer in the Garden written by Jane Garmey and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show me a person without any prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener.--Allen Lacy. Idiosyncratic, determined, and occasionally obsessed, gardeners have a lot to say about their outdoor passion. THE WRITER IN THE GARDEN brings together a host of writing gardeners and gardening writers reveling in their quirks, confessing their shortcomings, and sharing their experiences. Combing through a hundred years of garden writing, editor Jane Garmey has discovered some great contemporary works and rediscovered many classics: "I am strongly of the opinion," declares Gertrude Jekyll, "that the possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden." "It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged," writes Vita Sackville-West. "Gardeners are--let's face it--control freaks," Abby Adams admits. "Who else would willingly spend his leisure hours wrestling weeds out of the ground, blithely making life or death decisions about living beings, moving earth from here to there, changing the course of waterways?" Drawing on the work of more than fifty writers, THE WRITER IN THE GARDEN covers subjects ranging from the beauty of the garden to ornery weeds, the hazards of rare plant collecting, and the tribulations of inclement weather. The collection includes a range of authors from both sides of the Atlantic: from Edith Wharton, who insists that we could all learn a thing or two about design from the Italians, to Stephen Lacey, who reveals that his most exciting gardening moments are spent in the bath. Some of the other writers in the collection are: E. B. White, Beverly Nichols, Ken Druse, Eleanor Perenyi, W. S. Merwin, Mirabel Osler, Henry Mitchell, Jamaica Kincaid, Robert Dash, Sara B. Stein, Michael Pollan, M.F.K. Fisher, Anne Raver, Patti Hagan, Paula Deitz.

Keys to the Garden

Author : Ammiel Alcalay
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872863088
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Keys to the Garden written by Ammiel Alcalay and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred stories, poems and essays by Oriental Jews on subjects ranging from race to political allegiance. One story is on a professor's wife who, unable to conceive, takes a student to bed.

RHS The Garden Anthology

Author : Ursula Buchan
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 9780711234857
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book RHS The Garden Anthology written by Ursula Buchan and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the best garden writing from the pages of The Garden, the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society.ÿ As well as revealing key moment from a time of intense change, this anthology paints a rich and intriguing picture of what gardening means today.The writers tell of plant-hunting and new gardening practices, fashion and growing food, whilst shedding light on the inner landscape of the thoughtful gardener.ÿ Collected and curated by Ursula Buchan, herself an anthologist, The Garden Anthology presents a narrative of thoughts and opinions for keen gardeners to help navigate the gardening year, and comprises the best writing from more than the last 100 years. This 320-page reading book includes short essays, opinions, thoughts and excerpts from 80 garden writers and designers including James Wong, Sir Roy Strong, Helen Dillon, Anna Pavord, E A Bowles, Gertrude Jekyll, John Brookes, Tim Richardson, Joy Larkcom, Hugh Johnson, Nigel Slater, Lia Leendertz, Ursula Buchan, Nigel Colborne and Mary Keen under the universally-appealing subjects of: the kitchen garden; wildlife and wildflowers; gardens; garden design; the environment; plants; people; seasons and the weather.

RHS The Garden Anthology

Author : Ursula Buchan
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 1781011605
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book RHS The Garden Anthology written by Ursula Buchan and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the best garden writing from the pages of The Garden, the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society. As well as revealing key moment from a time of intense change, this anthology paints a rich and intriguing picture of what gardening means today.The writers tell of plant-hunting and new gardening practices, fashion and growing food, whilst shedding light on the inner landscape of the thoughtful gardener. Collected and curated by Ursula Buchan, herself an anthologist, The Garden Anthology presents a narrative of thoughts and opinions for keen gardeners to help navigate the gardening year, and comprises the best writing from more than the last 100 years. This 320-page reading book includes short essays, opinions, thoughts and excerpts from 80 garden writers and designers including James Wong, Sir Roy Strong, Helen Dillon, Anna Pavord, E A Bowles, Gertrude Jekyll, John Brookes, Tim Richardson, Joy Larkcom, Hugh Johnson, Nigel Slater, Lia Leendertz, Ursula Buchan, Nigel Colborne and Mary Keen under the universally-appealing subjects of: the kitchen garden; wildlife and wildflowers; gardens; garden design; the environment; plants; people; seasons and the weather.

American Garden Writing

Author : Bonnie Marranca
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Garden Writing written by Bonnie Marranca and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1989 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary amount of knowledge is compiled in this collection of fifty selections on gardening from essays, letters, travel journals, and natural histories, covering a broad geographic range of writings from the colonial period to the present.

This Is the Garden

Author : Charles Elliott
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780711231740
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book This Is the Garden written by Charles Elliott and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to Tom Stoppard, writers whose direct concern with gardening may only be slight, find themselves deeply involved with particular, maybe imaginary gardens. Thus gardens turn up in the most surprising contexts, from 10th century Japan to the more familiar world of 19th and 20th century English literature. Gardens are used as settings, they are contemplated and described, they are engaged with metaphorically, and they are employed as emotional registers by authors as various as Goethe and Jerome K Jerome, Somerset Maugham and James I; to say nothing of Charlotte Bronte or ee cumming. And in this anthology the legendary editor and garden writer Charles Elliott has chosen a nicely suggestive collection of such encounters from all over the world and all ages to delight, to entertain and to inform. Happy and sad, comic and serious, reassuring and threatening, the garden is seen here by over 100 great writers as one of mankind's most interesting, most useful and most variable creations.

My Favorite Plant

Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 125033151X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book My Favorite Plant written by Jamaica Kincaid and published by Picador. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful compendium of writing on plants. The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. Among the contributors are Christopher Lloyd, on poppies; Marina Warner, who remembers the Guinée rose; and Henri Cole, who offers poems on the bearded iris and on peonies. There is also an explanation of the sexiness of castor beans from Michael Pollan and an essay from Maxine Kumin on how, as Henry David Thoreau put it, one "[makes] the earth say beans instead of grass." Most of the essays are new in print, but Colette, Katharine S. White, D. H. Lawrence, and several other old favorites make appearances. Jamaica Kincaid, the much-admired writer and a passionate gardener herself, rounds up this diverse crew. A wonderful gift for green thumbs, My Favorite Plant is a happy collection of fresh takes on old friends. Other contributors include: Hilton Als Mary Keen Ken Druse Duane Michals Michael Fox David Raffeld Ian Frazier Graham Stuart Thomas Daniel Hinkley Wayne Winterrowd

The Royal Horticultural Society Treasury of Garden Writing

Author : Charles Elliott
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780711225220
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Horticultural Society Treasury of Garden Writing written by Charles Elliott and published by Frances Lincoln Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to The RHS Treasury of Garden Verse, this anthology presents a selection of garden writing spanning the globe and the centuries. Writers from Francis Bacon to Thoreau have been inspired by gardens and gardening, and here there is something for everyone: classic pieces and perennial favorites, and some surprising finds.

Sweet Days and Roses

Author : Leslie Geddes-Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841724089
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Days and Roses written by Leslie Geddes-Brown and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - A celebration for all garden lovers- A compact collection of some of the best gardening writing of the past five centuries- The 80 photographs and illustrations throughout make this book as beautiful as its subject

This is the Garden

Author : Charles Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book This is the Garden written by Charles Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gardens

Author : Merilyn Simonds
Publisher : Greystone Natural Wonders
ISBN 13 : 9781553653271
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Gardens written by Merilyn Simonds and published by Greystone Natural Wonders. This book was released on 2008 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a meditation on the garden from twenty great international writers. Like writing, gardening is an act of imagination and faith, and so it should be no surprise that many fine writers have turned their hand to the soil and brought their gardens back to the page. This anthology gathers together the best from around the world and across the centuries. The Roman essayist Pliny muses on "The Smell of Good Ground," while Katharine S. White, garden columnist for The New Yorker, takes in the fragrance of roses. In Bloomsbury's Britain, Vita Sackville-West singles out the Transvaal Daisy from her gardens at Sissinghurst, while medieval herbalist John Gerard extolls the potato as the "Marvel of the World" and Bertie Stephens reminisces about being a gardener for Thomas Hardy. The New World pioneer Catharine Parr Traill is here, as well as contemporary writers Germaine Greer, Jamaica Kincaid, and Patrick Lane. Rich with the protean observations, insights, and inspirations of more than twenty writers, the book gives the last word to Gertrude Jeckyll, the grande dame of British garden design, who shares her gardening credo: "The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives."

Garden of Reading

Author : Michele Slung
Publisher : Overlook Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Garden of Reading written by Michele Slung and published by Overlook Press. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With selections grown from the fertile imaginations of the twentieth century's most remarkable authors, editor and writer Michele Slung has assembled an enchanting and evocative anthologyâ€”the word itself comes from the Greek terms for â€œflowerâ€ and â€œto gatherâ€ â€”of short stories about gardens and all that grow in them. The gardeners here are young and old, male and female, and the gardens themselves are a delightful mix of the formal and the wild. The twenty-four stories in The Garden of Readingcomprise a diverse and unexpected collection but one that stays true to its central and harmonious theme. Included are Colette's sensuous â€œGrape Harvest,â€ David Guterson's poignant â€œThe Flower Garden,â€ Stephen King's sinister â€œThe Lawnmower Man,â€ J. G. Ballard's lovely and otherworldy â€œThe Garden of Time,â€ the ominous â€œGreen Thoughtsâ€ by John Collier, Rosamunde Pilcher's touching and simply titled â€œThe Tree,â€ and the splendid â€œThe Fig Tree,â€ by V. S. Pritchettâ€”as well as classics from such masters as Saki, Robert Graves, and Eudora Welty, and contemporary writing from the likes of Sandra Cisneros and Garrison Keillor. If you've ever nurtured a flower, a tomato plant, or a gleam of imagination, there's something in The Garden of Readingthat is sure to delight.