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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100375759476

ISBN-139780375759475

eBay Product ID (ePID)1981787

Product Key Features

Book TitleWe Made a Garden

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicRegional / General, Techniques, Climatic / Temperate, General, Essays & Narratives

Publication Year2002

IllustratorYes

GenreGardening

AuthorMargery Fish

Book SeriesModern Library Gardening Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight7.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-056271

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Crammed with good advice. . . . I defy any amateur gardener not to find pleasure, encouragement, and profit from We Made a Garden." -- Vita Sackville-West "Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows." -- Margery Fish, "Crammed with good advice. . . . I defy any amateur gardener not to find pleasure, encouragement, and profit from We Made a Garden." - Vita Sackville-West "Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows." - Margery Fish, "Crammed with good advice. . . . I defy any amateur gardener not to find pleasure, encouragement, and profit from We Made a Garden." -Vita Sackville-West "Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows." -Margery Fish

Dewey Decimal635.9/09423/89

SynopsisFirst published in Britain in 1956 and never before available in America, We Made a Garden is the classic story of a unique and enduring English country garden. One of Britain's most esteemed gardening writers recounts how she and her husband set about creating an exemplary cottage garden from unpromising beginnings on the site of the former farmyard and rubbish heap that surround their newly purchased home in the countryside of Somerset, England. Each imbued with a strong set of horticultural opinions and passions, Mr. and Mrs. Fish negotiate the terrain of their garden, by turns separately and together, often with humorous collisions. From the secret to cultivating the smoothest lawn to the art of lifting and replanting tulip bulbs to the landscaping possibilities of evergreens, the diverse elements of successful gardening--and delightful writing--are bound together by Mr. and Mrs. Fish's aspiration to cultivate that most precious and slow-growing quality--the fundamental character of a good garden.

LC Classification NumberSB466.G8E273 2002