Описание
Elizabeth Jane Howard once said that she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. This collection is a testament to that passion.
The contents are delightfully eclectic and wide-ranging, practical as well as lyrical — she pays homage to the great English landscape artists of the eighteenth century and to the great women gardeners such as Vita Sackville-West.
There’s advice from Pliny on how walnuts can be used to dye hair and Joseph Addison encourages blackbirds to gorge on his cherry trees. Linking the numerous extracts is Elizabeth Jane Howard’s perceptive and highly personal commentary, which skilfully leads the reader from one subject to the next.
