Category: Book Reviews
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Vita Sackville-West on the Humble or Sensitive Plant
Last night I couldn’t sleep so I grabbed a book from the bedside bookcase. I’ve been reading Sackville-West’s In Your Garden Again off and on for the past few weeks and it has all kinds of things I always mean to mention here but, by the time I’ve finally fallen asleep and come to in the…
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When Gardeners Can’t Sleep I Prescribe This Book: Gardens in Art by Lucia Impelluso
Pumpkin, Bartolomeo Bimbi, c. 1711, Florence, Museo Botanico. (The rectangular stone at the bottom reads: Pumpkin grown in Pisa in the garden of His Royal Highness in the year 1711. It weighed 45 kilograms or about 100 pounds.) Last night when I went to bed I wasn’t feeling well. In a hurried rush to get…
Ann Loves Plants 