Of Flowers & a Village : An Entertainment for Flower Lovers
Editorial Reviews
Review
Sue Tasker Professional Gardener : The letters are filled with wicked remarks about the neighbours, together with careful observations of plants and gardening practices; a gentle prod at those of us who take our gardening too seriously.
Lori D. Kranz Bloomsbury Review : In these amusing letters [Wilfrid Blunt] tells Flora about his new home, its eccentric citizens, and a great deal about plants and gardening, the latter an education that gardeners will appreciate.
Book Description
Wilfrid Blunt (1901–1987) is probably best known today as a biographer of Linnaeus and as the author of the classic study The Art of Botanical Illustration. But Blunt also had his lighter side. Of Flowers & a Village is a novel written in the form of chatty letters from a doting godfather to his goddaughter, Flora, an enthusiastic (if inexperienced) gardener who is recovering from an illness that has left her temporarily bedridden. Although we learn a great deal about daily life in the village of Dewbury, the subject never strays far from gardening—by the novel's end, both Flora and the reader have received a gentle but thorough horticultural education. Never has learning about gardening been so much fun.
Of Flowers & a Village : An Entertainment for Flower Lovers
Of Flowers & a Village: An Entertainment for Flower Lovers: An Entertainment for Flower Lovers,Wilfrid Blunt,Timber Press,0881927783,Botany (General),Essays,Flowers - General,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening/Plants,Gardens,Horticulture (General),Flowers
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