Sweet Days and Roses: An Anthology of Garden Writing
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Book Description
The next best thing to working in your garden is reading about the pleasures a garden can bring. Sweet Days & Roses is an inspiring celebration of the joys of gardening, garden plants and garden designs. Witty and anecdotal, it brings together some of the best garden writing of the past five centuries, with a sparkling introduction and perceptive commentaries by author Leslie Geddes-Brown.
Arranged in four parts-Garden Glory, Designs and Schemes, Plant Passions and The Gardeners-the anthology includes insights from gardening luminaries such as Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll, and Mirabel Osler, interspersed with reflections from a wide variety of literary greats, from Shakespeare to Samuel Pepys; from Edith Wharton to Frances Hodgson Burnett-as well as poems by, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Alfred Lord Ferguson, and Robert Frost.
For anyone who loves gardens or gardening, Sweet Days and Roses is a bountiful harvest that is simply not to be missed.
About the Author
Leslie Geddes-Brown, a former deputy editor of World of Interiors and Country Life, is one of Britain's leading writers on gardening and interiors. Her books include The Floral Home and Chelsea : the Greatest Flower Show on Earth, and she is author of Waterside Living, The Color Design File, ad Hallways, Corridors, and Staircases (all Ryland Peters and Small, Inc.) Leslie writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times, You magazine, and Country Life. She divides her time between a Georgian townhouse in London, a farmhouse in Tuscan hills, and a medieval moated manor house in Suffolk.
Sweet Days and Roses: An Anthology of Garden Writing,Leslie Geddes-Brown,Ryland Peters & Small Ltd,1841724084,Essays,Flowers - Roses,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening/Plants,Gardens
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