About Orchids

A quarter-acre garden, crowded by trees and dismissed as hopeless—and Frederick Boyle claims it can yield roses by the basketful, fruit, mushrooms, water-lilies, and orchids.

In a small suburban garden of gravelly soil and stubborn shade, Boyle trades travel for the pleasures of making things grow. He begins with little horticultural knowledge, less patience for stooping, and a plot that seems too cramped for anything much to flourish. With raised beds, heaps of road-sweepings, and cheerful disregard for expert warnings, he transforms it into a place of flowers, fruit, and ingenious surprises. But this is only the beginning of his account: how did a novice gardener, working with so little ground, come to grow orchids?

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