The Making of a Garden"A selection from the writings of Gertrude Jekyll, known the world over for her garden designs. Art school trained, she became a craftswoman of great skill and imagination, till increasingly poor eyesight forced her to abandon close work. It was at this stage of her life that she turned her seemingly inexhaustible resource wholeheartedly to the creation of her gardens and writing about her gardening experiences... The anthology takes us through the making and management of gardens, the disasters and delights encountered along the way, the practicalities, and pleasures involved..."--Publisher description. |
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Gertrude Jekyll Cherry Lewis. Woods and wild gardening I am surprised to see the number and wonderful variety of the pictures of sylvan beauty that the wood displays throughout the year . I did not specially aim at variety , but , guided ...
Gertrude Jekyll Cherry Lewis. Woods and wild gardening I am surprised to see the number and wonderful variety of the pictures of sylvan beauty that the wood displays throughout the year . I did not specially aim at variety , but , guided ...
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Gertrude Jekyll Cherry Lewis. A wood ramble in April It is a windy day in early April , and I take my camp - stool and wander into the wood , where one is always fairly in shelter . Beyond the first wood is a bit of wild forest - like ...
Gertrude Jekyll Cherry Lewis. A wood ramble in April It is a windy day in early April , and I take my camp - stool and wander into the wood , where one is always fairly in shelter . Beyond the first wood is a bit of wild forest - like ...
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... wood high up on my left some small animal hunting among the dead leaves . By the smallness of the sound it should be a field- mouse ; the movement is not heavy enough for a weasel , still less for a stoat ; it is the sound of an animal ...
... wood high up on my left some small animal hunting among the dead leaves . By the smallness of the sound it should be a field- mouse ; the movement is not heavy enough for a weasel , still less for a stoat ; it is the sound of an animal ...
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