Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed

AvJames Fenton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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In this light-hearted book, poet and gardener James Fenton describes a hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed. ‘It seemed a simple and interesting idea: what plants would you choose if starting a garden from scratch?’Includes chapters on flowers for colour, size, or exotic interest; herbs and meadow flowers; climbing vines and tropical species; the micro-meadow; raising plants from seed; and a wealth of personal tips and advice. As Fenton writes, ‘the emphasis is on childish simplicity of approach, and economy of outlay.’Here is a happy, stylish, thought-provoking exercise in good principles, which exudes that rare thing: common-or-garden sense about gardens.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-23
Mått:120 x 190 x 150 mm
Vikt:250 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:96
Förlag:Notting Hill Editions
ISBN:9781912559282

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James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry 1994-99. In 2007, Fenton was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Recensioner i media

'A small book, yes, but how it grows in the mind after you put it down. It is a book about propagating plants from seeds, but it also a book about love, for when you love you start from scratch.'

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionFlowers and their ColoursFlowers for their SizeFlowers that Hop AroundFlowers for CuttingThe Perennial PrejudiceUseful and Decorative HerbsThe Micro-MeadowThe Poppy FestivalClimbers on ImpulseFor the Tropical LookAs an AfterthoughtThe Rest of the KitWhen Raising Plants from SeedThe Seed List