Gardens Of Obsession
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Gardens Of Obsession
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Author : Gordon Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1999
Gardens Of Obsession written by Gordon Taylor and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Gardening categories.
"A fertility sculpture garden in Bangkok and a topiary cemetery in Ecuador are just two of the astonishing stops on this garden-world romp."--Conde Nast Garden. "...infectiously enthuses about gardens on the cutting edge: the audacious, the radical, and the astonishing....Cooper and Taylor take us on a wild and satisfying ride..."--Garden Design Magazine. "...an eye-popping worldwide survey of garden statuary, from surreal to monumental to cheerfully obscene."--Chicago Tribune.
Gardens Of Obsession
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Author : Tom Howard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-10-01
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Gardens Of Obsession Tbp
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Author : G. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Orion
Release Date : 1999-10
Gardens Of Obsession Tbp written by G. Taylor and has been published by Orion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10 with categories.
The Roots Of My Obsession
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Author : Thomas C. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Timber Press
Release Date : 2012-10-02
The Roots Of My Obsession written by Thomas C. Cooper and has been published by Timber Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with Gardening categories.
Why do you garden? For fun? Work? Food? The reasons to garden are as unique as the gardener. The Roots of My Obsession features thirty essays from the most vital voices in gardening, exploring the myriad motives and impulses that cause a person to become a gardener. For some, it’s the quest to achieve a personal vision of ultimate beauty; for others, it’s a mission to heal the earth, or to grow a perfect peach. The essays are as distinct as their authors, and yet each one is direct, engaging, and from the heart. For Doug Tallamy, a love of plants is rooted first in a love of animals: “animals with two legs (birds), four legs (box turtles, salamanders, and foxes), six legs (butterflies and beetles), eight legs (spiders), dozens of legs (centipedes), hundreds of legs (millipedes), and even animals with no legs (snakes and pollywogs).” For Rosalind Creasy, it’s “not the plant itself; it’s how you use it in the garden.” And for Sydney Eddison, the reason has changed throughout the years. Now, she “gardens for the moment.” As you read, you may find yourself nodding your head in agreement, or gasping in disbelief. What you’re sure to encounter is some of the best writing about the gardener’s soul ever to appear. For anyone who cherishes the miracle of bringing forth life from the soil, The Roots of My Obsession is essential inspiration.
Rhapsody In Green A Writer An Obsession A Laughably Small Excuse For A Vegetable Garden
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Author : Charlotte Mendelson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Rhapsody In Green A Writer An Obsession A Laughably Small Excuse For A Vegetable Garden written by Charlotte Mendelson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Gardening categories.
'Excellent book.' Nigella Lawson 'Charming, inspiring, uplifting... pure lovely.' Marian Keyes 'Read Rhapsody in Green. A novelist's beautiful, useful essays about her tiny garden.' India Knight 'Glorious...for anyone who loves fruit, vegetables, herbs and language. It makes you see them with new eyes.' Diana Henry 'A witty account of 'extreme allotmenteering' for all obsessive gardeners' Mail on Sunday 'An extremely entertaining and inspiring story of one woman's passionate transformation of a small, irregular shaped urban garden into a bountiful source of food.' Woman & Home 'A gardening book like no other, this is the author's 'love letter' to her garden. She relays warm and witty stories about the trials and tribulations throughout her gardening year.' Garden News '...this inspirational, funny book, written by someone who hankers after a homesteader's lifestyle, will make you look at even your window box in a new, more productive light.' The Simple Things 'Gardening is not a hobby but a passion: a mess of excitement and compulsion and urgency and desire. Those who practise it are botanists, evangelists, freedom fighters, midwives and saboteurs; we kill; we bleed. No, I can't drop everything to come in for dinner; it's a matter of life and death out here.' Novelist Charlotte Mendelson has a secret life. Despite owning only six square metres of urban soil and a few pots, she is an extreme gardener; the creator of a tiny but bountiful edible jungle. And like all enthusiasts, she will not rest until you share her obsession. This is the story of an amateur gardener's journey to addiction: her attempts to buy lion dung from London Zoo and to build her own cold frame; her disinhibited composting and creative approach to design; her prejudices (roses, purple flowers, people with orchards); and her passions: quinces, salad-leaves, herbs, Japanese greens and ancient British apples. It is a story of where fantasy meets reality, of the slow onset of a consuming love and, most of all, of how gardening, however peculiar, can save your life.
The Roots Of My Obsession
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Author : Thomas C. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-10-02
The Roots Of My Obsession written by Thomas C. Cooper and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with Gardening categories.
Why would any sane person spend hours on hands and knees, courting aching joints and a ruined back, just to raise a bunch of plants? A rich, complex, and human answer can be found in the pages of The Roots of My Obsession.
The View From Federal Twist
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Author : James Golden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-03
The View From Federal Twist written by James Golden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03 with Gardening categories.
Federal Twist is set on a ridge above the Delaware River in western New Jersey. It is a naturalistic garden that has loose boundaries and integrates closely with the natural world that surrounds it. It has no utilitarian or leisure uses (no play areas, swimming pools, or outdoor dining) and the site is not an obvious choice for a garden (heavy clay soil, poorly drained: quick death for any plants not ecologically suited to it). The physical garden, its plants and its features, is of course an appealing and pleasant place to be but Federal Twist's real charm and significance lie in its intangible aspects: its changing qualities and views, the moods and emotions it evokes, and its distinctive character and sense of place. This book charts the author's journey in making such a garden. How he made a conscious decision not to "improve the land", planted large, competitive plants into rough grass, experimented with seeding to develop sustainable plant communities. And how he worked with light to provoke certain moods and allowed the energy of the place, chance, and randomness to have its say. Part experimental horticulturist and part philosopher, James Golden has written an important book for naturalistic and ecological gardeners and anyone interested in exploring the relationship between gardens, nature, and ourselves.
The Brother Gardeners
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Author : Andrea Wulf
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-11
The Brother Gardeners written by Andrea Wulf and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-11 with History categories.
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds... Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England, where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession and change the gardens of Britain forever: Philip Miller, author of the bestselling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swede Carl Linnaeus, whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; the botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks and his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti and Australia on Captain Cook's Endeavour. This is the story of these men - friends, rivals, enemies, united by a passion for plants. Set against the backdrop of the emerging empire and the uncharted world beyond, The Brother Gardeners tells the story how Britain became a nation of gardeners.
The Curious Gardeners
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Author : Guy Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Headline Book Pub Limited
Release Date : 2001
The Curious Gardeners written by Guy Cooper and has been published by Headline Book Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Gardening categories.
Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor, drive an 1960s Alvis sports car around the gardens of Britain - the traditional, the eccentric and the contemporary - and talking in their informed, cantankerous and humorous way about the unusual and interesting elements of design they have found.
Kaydale Lodge Gardens
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Author : Robert Crowden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-03-29
Kaydale Lodge Gardens written by Robert Crowden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-29 with categories.