I feel so much less guilty about my huge trove of garden books. I love them and cannot part with them. And I do revisit them regularly unlike other books on the shelves. Also it warms my heart to know that gardening is the number one hobby in the US. That surprises me. But gives me hope!
It is consistently the number one hobby with nearly three-quarters (77%) of American households taking part, according to the National Gardening Survey. We need to keep in contact with Mother earth in anyway we can...
Fun column and would love to know some of your favorites. Mine include Sylvia Crowe’s Garden Design for history and fundamental design; Scott Tilden’s The Glory of Gardens for exposure to both Western and Eastern garden writing over the past 2,000 years; The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820, edited by John Dixon Hunt and Peter Willis; Beverley Nichols’ Down The Garden Path for sheer entertainment; The Gardens of Russell Page for refined high style, even though he admitted in The Education of a Gardener, I believe, that it was probably unsustainably expensive; and The Good Garden: The Landscape Garden Architecture of Edmund Hollander Design for wonderful pictures of the fine things that can happen when people with money also have taste. Best wishes for the new year.
I love all your selections! You ae certainly more educated than I am in garden books - I do like Education of a Gardener and Down t he Garden Path. I also love Eleanor Perenyi's Green Thoughts and also Garden Transformations by Bunny Guinness.
I couldn’t agree more with your point of view! I dream of fantasy gardens as I page through my garden books, a few of which have your name on them. Those imagined gardens remain pristine and perfect, unaffected by weather, aphids, moles, my poor planning or any other IRL problem. I can visualize beautiful roses, even though my garden is roofed over with old firs, shading all but a few tiny spots. A garden is never just the soil, plants, sun and zone, but a world of unfulfilled-as-of-yet hope that gets us out there at the first sign of spring. When it’s cold and snowy or rainy and windy, we have our books to keep us warm!
I feel so much less guilty about my huge trove of garden books. I love them and cannot part with them. And I do revisit them regularly unlike other books on the shelves. Also it warms my heart to know that gardening is the number one hobby in the US. That surprises me. But gives me hope!
It is consistently the number one hobby with nearly three-quarters (77%) of American households taking part, according to the National Gardening Survey. We need to keep in contact with Mother earth in anyway we can...
Fun column and would love to know some of your favorites. Mine include Sylvia Crowe’s Garden Design for history and fundamental design; Scott Tilden’s The Glory of Gardens for exposure to both Western and Eastern garden writing over the past 2,000 years; The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820, edited by John Dixon Hunt and Peter Willis; Beverley Nichols’ Down The Garden Path for sheer entertainment; The Gardens of Russell Page for refined high style, even though he admitted in The Education of a Gardener, I believe, that it was probably unsustainably expensive; and The Good Garden: The Landscape Garden Architecture of Edmund Hollander Design for wonderful pictures of the fine things that can happen when people with money also have taste. Best wishes for the new year.
I love all your selections! You ae certainly more educated than I am in garden books - I do like Education of a Gardener and Down t he Garden Path. I also love Eleanor Perenyi's Green Thoughts and also Garden Transformations by Bunny Guinness.
I couldn’t agree more with your point of view! I dream of fantasy gardens as I page through my garden books, a few of which have your name on them. Those imagined gardens remain pristine and perfect, unaffected by weather, aphids, moles, my poor planning or any other IRL problem. I can visualize beautiful roses, even though my garden is roofed over with old firs, shading all but a few tiny spots. A garden is never just the soil, plants, sun and zone, but a world of unfulfilled-as-of-yet hope that gets us out there at the first sign of spring. When it’s cold and snowy or rainy and windy, we have our books to keep us warm!
How eloquent! ...a world of unfufilled-as-of-yet hope....and thanks for the nod to my books!