Gardening in Eden
The Joys of Planning and Tending a Garden
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
"Though an old man," Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello, "I am but a young gardener." Every gardener is.
In Gardening in Eden, we enter Arthur Vanderbilt's small enchanted world of the garden, where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy quilts of spring color, where a catbird comes to eat raisins from one's hand, and a chipmunk demands a daily ration of salted cocktail nuts. We feel the oppressiveness of endless winter days, the magic of an old-fashioned snow day, the heady, healing qualities of wandering through a greenhouse on a frozen February afternoon, the restlessness of a gardener waiting for spring.
With a sense of wonder and humor on each page, Arthur Vanderbilt takes us along with him to discover that for those who wait, watch, and labor in the garden, it's all happening right outside our windows.
Customer Reviews
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Though it started out promising, it quickly faded into a jumbled mess. I found many of his analogies quite disturbing as well as childlike and somewhat boring.
However he is a great writer when in the history genre. Didn’t get halfway through this one.