The Writer in the Garden by Garmey, Jane -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents Introduction The Writer in the Garden

A Taste for Gardens

A Garden Like a Life The Purpose of a Garden A Shape of Water The Garden My Invisible Garden Gardens of One Colour My Mother’s Garden The Garden of Alcinous, from Homer’s Odyssey, Book VII

Gardeners in the Garden

Help Gardeners On the Defiance of Gardeners Days Are Different What Is a Garden, Anyway? Sunday in the Garden with Weeds In Search of Plants How the Garden Grows and Grows The Secret of Planting a Garden Collectors “Not a Place to Be Happy In” Down and Dirty Gapers and Crouchers The Unbehooved Gardener from the Introduction to Onward and Upward in the Garden

Design in the Garden

In Search of Style from The Epistle to Burlington Plants Do Not a Garden Make A Question of Design Taste Classical or Romantic? A Gentle Plea for Chaos Artful Disorder Hurrah for Vulgarity Don’t Build a Water Garden Italian Garden Magic

Seasons in the Garden

February The Onset of Spring The Month of May Rain After Drought Summer July The Arrival of Fall October A Fire by Ice

The Bounty of the Garden

A Garden Song Childhood Roses Into the Rose Garden Horse-Chestnut Trees and Roses Thoughts on Thistles June 29–30 Hydrangeas? Never! Flowers I Love A Change of Plans The Bean-Field The Day of the Living Dead

Garden Variety

Cuttings (later) Magenta the Maligned Scent and the Gardener The Changing Rose, the Enduring Cabbage I Remember, I Remember The Feline Touch A Mass of Sooty, Shapeless Slime Dust to Dust: Undertakings in the Garden Time

Author Biographies Acknowledgments Copyright