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| Introduction | ||
| A Garden Like a Life | 3 | |
| The Purpose of a Garden | 10 | |
| A Shape of Water | 12 | |
| The Garden | 20 | |
| My Invisible Garden | 23 | |
| Gardens of One Colour | 28 | |
| My Mother's Garden | 30 | |
| The Garden of Alcinous, from Homer's Odyssey, Book VII | 32 | |
| Help | 37 | |
| Gardeners | 43 | |
| On the Defiance of Gardeners | 44 | |
| Days Are Different | 48 | |
| What Is a Garden, Anyway? | 56 | |
| Sunday in the Garden with Weeds | 59 | |
| In Search of Plants | 68 | |
| How the Garden Grows and Grows | 70 | |
| The Secret of Planting a Garden | 74 | |
| Collectors | 78 | |
| "Not a Place to Be Happy In" | 80 | |
| Down and Dirty | 82 | |
| Gapers and Crouchers | 86 | |
| The Unbehooved Gardener | 90 | |
| from the Introduction to Onward and Upward in the Garden | 92 | |
| In Search of Style | 97 | |
| from The Epistle to Burlington | 101 | |
| Plants Do Not a Garden Make | 102 | |
| A Question of Design | 104 | |
| Taste | 112 | |
| Classical or Romantic? | 115 | |
| A Gentle Plea for Chaos | 122 | |
| Artful Disorder | 126 | |
| Hurrah for Vulgarity | 128 | |
| Don't Build a Water Garden | 132 | |
| Italian Garden Magic | 133 | |
| February | 141 | |
| The Onset of Spring | 143 | |
| The Month of May | 146 | |
| Rain After Drought | 148 | |
| Summer | 150 | |
| July | 153 | |
| The Arrival of Fall | 156 | |
| October | 161 | |
| A Fire by Ice | 163 | |
| A Garden Song | 169 | |
| Childhood Roses | 171 | |
| Into the Rose Garden | 173 | |
| Horse-Chestnut Trees and Roses | 180 | |
| Thoughts on Thistles | 183 | |
| June 29-30 | 186 | |
| Hydrangeas? Never! | 187 | |
| Flowers I Love | 190 | |
| A Change of Plans | 191 | |
| The Bean-Field | 198 | |
| The Day of the Living Dead | 201 | |
| Cuttings (later) | 207 | |
| Magenta the Maligned | 208 | |
| Scent and the Gardener | 211 | |
| The Changing Rose, the Enduring Cabbage | 214 | |
| I Remember, I Remember | 217 | |
| The Feline Touch | 221 | |
| A Mass of Sooty, Shapeless Slime | 223 | |
| Dust to Dust: Undertakings in the Garden | 227 | |
| Time | 231 | |
| Author Biographies | 235 | |
| Acknowledgments | 247 |
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Cedric De Borchgrave
reviewed The Writer in the Garden on May 16, 2018
The Writer in the Garden
"Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too." Henry Mitchell, from The Essential Earthman
I really love reading about gardens and gardeners. Humorous, serious, opinionated and sometimes critical, there's something for everyone here, including some poetry and a section from The Secret Garden; this collection had some wonderful writing in it. I just usually wanted to read more, and unfortunately I don't have access to many of the originals. Still, I quite enjoyed reading this and will regret having to return the ILL eventually. :)
NB - Be warned that the audio version is abridged and has a really terrible musical/insect sounding interval at the beginning and end of each of four sections. It really is horrendous and makes me cringe when I hear it. Most of the narrators are excellent, though one of them massacres some poetry and one gentleman sounds really bored. Still, if you can't get the book it's worth listening to this - just be prepared for that awful "music". :)
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