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Reflections from a garden / Susan Hill & Rory Stuart.
LIBRA SB455.3 .H56 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Susan, 1942- author.
- Stuart, Rory, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens, British.
- Gardening--Great Britain.
- Gardening.
- Gardens in literature.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- Dorchester : Dorchester Typesetting Group Ltd., 1995.
- [Newquay, England] : Printed and bound by Hartnolls, 1995.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pavilion, 1995.
- Summary:
- The authors ... aim to awaken gardeners to new possibilities for garden pleasure by reflecting on some of them in detail. ... There is practical advice on planting, reassurance to the newcomer, and brisk encouragement to the nervous .... [H]andsomely illustrated with full-page wood engravings by Ian Stephens. -- Jacket flap
- Exerpts from the "Grumbling Appendix": 1) "as we grow up and become gardeners we may have a sneaking sympathy for Mr. McGregor" Nothing sneaking about it.. 2) "The pleasures of eating in the open are undisputed." I hate picnics. 3) "...nerines" There are many hideous plants but these seem to me to come pretty close to the top of the list.
- Notes:
- Illustrations copyright © by Ian Stephens, 1995.
- ISBN:
- 1857933958
- 9781857933956
- 1862050600
- 9781862050600
- OCLC:
- 34076856
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