We Made a Garden (The Royal Horticultural Society classic garden writers)
The Royal Horticultural Society classic garden writers
Margery Fish
ISBN: | 9780881923414 |
Publisher: | Mitchell Beazley |
Published: | 15 December, 1995 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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We Made a Garden (The Royal Horticultural Society classic garden writers)
The Royal Horticultural Society classic garden writers
Margery Fish
Just in time for the 40th anniversary of its original publication, Margery Fish's classic gardening memoir has been published in the United States for the first time. Fish and her husband Walter, a former editor of the Daily Mail, bought a dilapidated house and two acres of limey clay in Somerset in 1937, fearing the onset of war. For the next two decades, they cultivated, pruned, and watered, with Walter providing the direction and the sense of order and Margery the flowers, the unstructured flora, and the wry observations. As in all of the best gardening books, Fish's memoir leavens technical information on gardening with memory and reflection. The book is above all the story of a marriage within the story of a landscape. Walter's lectures on the importance of structure, the distant war, the hardships of postwar England, come through slightly muted, like the outlines of buildings seen through dense foliage.
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