Thoughtful Gardening

Nonfiction, Home & Garden, Gardening, Essays, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Robin Lane Fox ISBN: 9780465022939
Publisher: Basic Books Publication: November 9, 2010
Imprint: Basic Books Language: English
Author: Robin Lane Fox
ISBN: 9780465022939
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication: November 9, 2010
Imprint: Basic Books
Language: English

"Undoubtedly the best gardening book for the past 30 years--provocative, full of information, witty and very funny" --Financial Times

An award-winning historian of antiquity, Robin Lane Fox is also one of Britain's foremost gardening experts, and in Thoughtful Gardening he takes readers on a varied and highly enjoyable journey through each season of the gardening year. From a tender eulogy for one of his landscape design mentors to a candid consideration of global warming's effects on his lupins or the perfect shrub to grow in shade along a path, Fox brings his trademark wit, wisdom, and charm to bear on the art and experience of gardening. Essential reading for anyone planting a new garden or taking stock of one after several years, this collection offers valuable critiques of horticultural trends and traditions, and essential insights into gardening practices and philosophies. Taken together these essays form-season by season-a rich reflection on the lessons, challenges, and absurdities of life with a green thumb.

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"Undoubtedly the best gardening book for the past 30 years--provocative, full of information, witty and very funny" --Financial Times

An award-winning historian of antiquity, Robin Lane Fox is also one of Britain's foremost gardening experts, and in Thoughtful Gardening he takes readers on a varied and highly enjoyable journey through each season of the gardening year. From a tender eulogy for one of his landscape design mentors to a candid consideration of global warming's effects on his lupins or the perfect shrub to grow in shade along a path, Fox brings his trademark wit, wisdom, and charm to bear on the art and experience of gardening. Essential reading for anyone planting a new garden or taking stock of one after several years, this collection offers valuable critiques of horticultural trends and traditions, and essential insights into gardening practices and philosophies. Taken together these essays form-season by season-a rich reflection on the lessons, challenges, and absurdities of life with a green thumb.

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