The Gardener's Bedside Reader
Author | : Kari Cornell, Diane Ackerman, Michael Pollan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781610605281 |
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Author | : Kari Cornell, Diane Ackerman, Michael Pollan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781610605281 |
Author | : Kari Cornell |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008-03-15 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780760326572 |
In the writings collected in this book, the stories of gardening unfold in the full palette of color and character, of wild imagination and bone-wearying hard work, of fabulous growth and humbling failure. Filled with wit and warmth and a companionable engagement with the land in all its moods and seasons, this wonderful book will see any start-up gardener or seasoned veteran through the most riotous summer of growth or the coldest winter months of waiting and dreaming about what to plant next. Contributors include contemporary essayists Michael Pollan, author of Second Nature and Botany of Desire, Anna Pavord, author of The Tulip, Jamaica Kincaid, author of My Garden (Book), and Diane Ackerman, author of Cultivating Delight. In addition, renowned gardeners and designers—from Vita Sackville-West and Beverley Nichols to Ann Lovejoy and Tovah Martin—eloquently share their experiences “in the dirt” with humor and passion. Botanical drawings, beautifully illustrated vintage seed catalogs, postcards, and photography by world-renowned gardening photographers Jerry Harpur, Jane Booth, and Richard Brown accompany the text.
Author | : Edward Hyams |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780571082780 |
Author | : Kenneth A. Beckett |
Publisher | : B. T. Batsford Limited |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780713403312 |
Author | : Jane Mcmorland Hunter |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1849947139 |
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.
Author | : Diana Anthony |
Publisher | : Wolfhound Press (IE) |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Gardeners |
ISBN | : 9780863277146 |
Garden literature, like gardening itself, can be a great source of comedy and semi-tragedy, furnishing scope for the full range of human emotions. This is a collection of wit, wisdom and whimsical humour including literary contributions from Victor Hugo, Dylan Thomas, P.G. Wodehouse and others.
Author | : Alan Titchmarsh |
Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1529311160 |
'Charming miscellany of rhymes and reflections celebrating the garden' CHOICE *** The perfect bedside book for the green-fingered - hilarious and touching poems on a gardening theme written and introduced by the nation's favourite gardener and presenter of ITV's Grow Your Own At Home and Love Your Garden, Channel 5's Secrets of the National Trust and with his own show on Classic FM. From touching poems on the peony, the snowdrop and the sweet pea to hilarious verse on Emily the Gardener and the Garden Design Course, this is Alan Titchmarsh's heartfelt and entertaining celebration of his favourite space - the garden.
Author | : Richardson Wright |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2003-04-22 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0812968735 |
First published in 1929, The Gardener’s Bed-Book is a much beloved gardening classic by the renowned editor of House & Garden magazine in the 1920s and ’30s. Each of its 365 perfectly sized little essays is meant to be read in bed at night after a long day’s work, either real or imagined, in the garden. A charming and mischievously funny companion to curl up with, Wright ranges comfortably—and lyrically—from giving gardening advice to meditating on such topics as antique collecting and travel, great literature and architecture. He is an addictive delight, as memorable describing the challenges of growing plume poppies as he is the simple pleasure of hanging up the dish towel once the housework is done. Written in language that is as timeless as it is seductive, The Gardener’s Bed-Book will appeal to gardening experts and armchair enthusiasts alike. This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Dominique Browning, the editor in chief of House & Garden and author of Around the House and in the Garden and the forthcoming Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener.
Author | : Katharine S. White |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1590178513 |
In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, White set her sights on a new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled “Onward and Upward in the Garden,” a critical review of garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of “seedmen and nurserymen,” those unsung authors who produced her “favorite reading matter.” Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire.
Author | : Peter Parker |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1408706156 |
How did the delphinium get its name? Which parts of the body lend their names to auriculas and orchids? Who are the gentian, lobelia and heuchera named after? Why are nasturtiums and antirrhinums connected? What does an everlasting pea have to do with Indian miniature paintings? These are some of the questions answered in Peter Parker's adventurous exploration of the mysteries of Botanical Latin. Evolved over many centuries and often thought to belong to the rarefied world of scholars and scientists, this invented language is in fact a very useful tool for everyday gardening. It allows us to find our way around nurseries; it sorts out confusions when two plants have the same English name; and it gives us all kinds of information about how big or small a plant will grow, what shape or colour it will develop, and what habitat it prefers. In his lively survey, Parker agues that Botanical Latin is not merely useful, but fun. The naming of plants draws upon geography, social and medical history, folklore, mythology, language, literature, the human body, the animal kingdom and all manner of ancient beliefs and superstitions. The book, beautifully illustrated with old woodcuts, explains how and why plants have been named, includes handy lists of identifying adjectives, and takes the reader down some of the stranger byways of human endeavour and eccentricity.