Beautiful MadnessDuring a year of living botanically, Dodson goes behind the scenes of the world's two most important garden shows, spends time with the Botticelli of Bulbs, meets a man smuggling exotic day lilies, and hangs out with three of the most accomplished gardening fanatics on earth. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 40
Page 10
... winter , and getting the hell over winter . It's the getting - over - winter part - what most people in the lower forty - eight call " spring " and " summer " -that makes Maine's excruciat- ing winter ultimately tolerable , the hope ...
... winter , and getting the hell over winter . It's the getting - over - winter part - what most people in the lower forty - eight call " spring " and " summer " -that makes Maine's excruciat- ing winter ultimately tolerable , the hope ...
Page 71
... winter up there too , do you ? ” As I'd told Bitsy Bowater's tedious friend at the Philadelphia Flower Show , I did indeed “ winter ” in Maine . Only people who don't “ winter ” in Maine use the word as a passive verb , by the way — the ...
... winter up there too , do you ? ” As I'd told Bitsy Bowater's tedious friend at the Philadelphia Flower Show , I did indeed “ winter ” in Maine . Only people who don't “ winter ” in Maine use the word as a passive verb , by the way — the ...
Page 92
... winter to wipe out . Luckily , I wasn't suffering alone that spring . On the radio before church one sunny Sunday morning in middle April , I listened to radio plantsman Paul Parent take call after call from distressed gardeners flung ...
... winter to wipe out . Luckily , I wasn't suffering alone that spring . On the radio before church one sunny Sunday morning in middle April , I listened to radio plantsman Paul Parent take call after call from distressed gardeners flung ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afternoon American Amey asked azalea Bartram Bartram's garden beautiful beech bloom Botticelli of Bulbs called Cameron Cape Carolina catalog Center Chelsea Chelsea Flower Show cycad daylilies Diarmuid Gavin display gardens doors English garden exhibit exotic explained famous farm forest garden club golf growing head hoping horticultural hosta hundred Inforcers Jack Blandy JAMES DODSON Jeanne Jefferson knew landscape late laughed Lighty lily Linda living look lovely Maine major McMansions Monticello morning mountain named native natural never North nursery once orchids Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia Flower Show plants plantsman Polly pots redbud river road show's shrubs simply smiled species spectacular stunning suddenly Suzy Sweet Alice tell terrace thing thought told took tree tulips walk Walt Fisher Wendy West Dean who'd wife wild winter wondered woodland yard young