Becoming a Gardener

What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living

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<p><strong>A beautifully designed, full-color personal account of what it means to become a gardener, filled with specially commissioned color photography, watercolors, and fine art.</strong></p><br><p>To make her new house in Connecticut truly feel like home, Catie Marron decided to create a garden. But while she was familiar with landscape design, she had never grown anything. A dedicated reader with a lifelong passion for literature, Marron turned to the library of gardening books she'd collected to glean advice from a variety of writers on gardening and horticultural topics both grand and small.</p><p>Marron's quest to become a gardener, however, was about more than learning the basics about mulch or which plants work best in the shade. She sought something far more elusive: to identify the core qualities and characteristics that make a person a gardener and an understanding of what a garden could mean to her as it had to multitudes of other gardeners over the centuries.</p><p>In <em>Becoming a Gardener,</em> Catie Marron chronicles her transformation into a gardener over the course of eighteen months, seeding the details of her experience with rich advice from writers as diverse as Eleanor Perényi and Karel Capek, Penelope Lively, and Jamaica Kincaid. As she digs deeper into her readings and works in the garden itself, Marron not only discovers the essence of gardening but in the words of Michael Pollan, ?the endlessly engrossing ways that cultivating a garden attaches a body to the earth.?</p><p>A delightful blend of informed opinion, personal reflection, and practical advice, <em>Becoming a Gardener</em> explores topics as varied as the composition of dirt, the agricultural wisdom of avid kitchen gardeners George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the healing power of digging in the soil, and the beauty of finding solitude in nature. Throughout, Marron carefully plants special illustrated features, such as musings on the merits (and detriments) of the rose, ess

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780062963611

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

370 x 287 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

HarperCollins