Autobiography Of A Garden
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Autobiography Of A Garden
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Author : Patterson Webster
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2022-07-15
Autobiography Of A Garden written by Patterson Webster and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-15 with Gardening categories.
Autobiography of a Garden follows Patterson Webster’s twenty-five-year journey as she transforms a beautiful but conventional country property into a 750-acre landscape that challenges what a garden is, or can be. A unique, personal memoir, this book details how a neophyte gardener moved from copying the ideas of other people to learning from them, and finally to striking out on her own. Combining traditions from French and English eighteenth-century gardens with contemporary perspectives, Webster communicates concepts and ideas that underpin the garden’s design, sharing a process that evolved over seasons and years. She explores the meaning of creating a garden and the meaning that a garden can create, linking ideas about aging and the passage of time to the reality of growth and death in the landscape and thinking through how art in a garden can reframe questions of memory and our relationship to nature. Using the history of the property as a framework, Webster considers the impact made by those who lived on the land before her: the Abenaki, the early settlers, the cottagers, the farmers, the US southerners who came to Quebec to avoid the summer heat, and the northerners who defeated them in the Civil War. With engaging personal anecdotes, she describes the thinking behind each part of the garden and the examples that guided her, the mishaps and successes she encountered, and her plans for the future. Beautifully photographed and full of inspirational ways of thinking about gardens and gardening, Autobiography of a Garden blends history, horticulture, and art, encouraging readers to make their own surroundings more beautiful and more meaningful.
The Autobiography Of A Garden
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Author : Andrew Raftery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Autobiography Of A Garden written by Andrew Raftery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Gardens in art categories.
"The autobiography of a garden is a set of twelve plates by Andrew Raftery. Based on drawings and paintings of the artist working in his garden during the twelve months of the calendar year, the images were engraved on copperplates. From the copper they were printed onto special decals that were then applied to the twelve earthenware plates, 12.5 inches in diameter, designed by the artist to receive the images. Each month is identified on the reverse by an engraved backstamp. The plates were produced at the Rhode Island School of Design between 2012 and 2016 in an edition of 80. They were first exhibited from September through November 2016 at the Ryan Lee Gallery in New York City."--page [1].
My Garden Book
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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2001-05-15
My Garden Book written by Jamaica Kincaid and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-15 with Gardening categories.
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.
My Garden Of Memory
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Author : Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
My Garden Of Memory written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with Authors, American categories.
Mary Garden S Story
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Author : Mary Garden
language : en
Publisher: Arno Press
Release Date : 1951
Mary Garden S Story written by Mary Garden and has been published by Arno Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
By Mary Garden and Louis Biancolli.
My Garden Of Memory
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Author : Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
My Garden Of Memory written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Authors, American categories.
The Garden Of Fidelity
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Author : Flora Annie Webster Steel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The Garden Of Fidelity written by Flora Annie Webster Steel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Authors, English categories.
My Garden Of Memory
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Author : Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
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Seed To Dust
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Author : Marc Hamer
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-01-14
Seed To Dust written by Marc Hamer and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021* 'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden' Daily Mail Beautifully illustrated, Seed to Dust is a reflective and restorative account of a life lived in harmony with nature. Marc Hamer has nurtured the same twelve acres of garden for decades. It's rarely visited so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets. But it's not his garden, and his relationship with its owner is at once distant and curiously intimate. In Seed to Dust, Marc takes us month-by-month through his experiences both working in the garden and outside it. We encounter new plants and wildlife, gardening folklore and the joys of manual work; we learn, too, about Marc's path from homelessness to family contentment, and the cycles of change that run through both the garden's life and our own. 'An absorbing combination of memoir, gardening folklore and natural history' Country Life 'Life-affirming... Absorbing' Sue Stuart-Smith, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Well-Gardened Mind
Unearthed
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Author : Alexandra Risen
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2016-07-05
Unearthed written by Alexandra Risen and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-05 with Gardening categories.
“A generous, poignant memoir” of loss, family secrets, and a quest to shape something beautiful out of the chaos of nature (Kirkus Reviews). Just as Alex and her husband buy a house in Toronto, set atop an acre of wilderness that extends into a natural gorge in the middle of the city, she learns that her father, a Ukrainian-born immigrant, has died. Her new home’s gigantic, abandoned garden, choked with weeds and crumbling antique structures, resembles a wild jungle—and it stirs cherished memories of Alex’s childhood: When her home life became unbearable, she would escape to the forest. In her new home, Alex can feel the power of the majestic trees that nurtured her in her youth, but as she begins to beat back the bushes to unveil the garden’s mysteries, her mother has a stroke and develops dementia. When Alex discovers an envelope of yellowed documents while sorting through her father’s junk pile, offering clues to her parents’ mysterious past, she reluctantly musters the courage to uncover their secrets. While discovering the plants hidden in the garden—from primroses and maple syrup–producing sugar maples to her mother’s favorite, lily of the valley—she must come to terms with the circle of life around her, and find the courage to tend to her own family’s future. “The land is rife with unexpected delights: a huge, decaying pagoda, underground aquifers, a pond, koi, deer, and all manner of vegetation. . . . As she restores the property and heals her long-troubled soul, Risen paints a vivid and exquisite portrait of nature and its profound significance.” —Publishers Weekly