Henry Mitchell on Gardening - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry Mitchell on Gardening write by Henry Mitchell. This book was released on 1999. Henry Mitchell on Gardening available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For readers who like gardening (and love the English language), this posthumous collection of Henry Mitchell's Washington Post "Earthman" columns is "equal parts entertainment and shrewd horticultural advice" (Science News). Henry Mitchell is "beloved for his witty, smart, informed, philosophical, wide-ranging and often wickedly humorous columns" (Detroit Free Press).
The Essential Earthman
The Essential Earthman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential Earthman write by Henry Mitchell. This book was released on 2003-01-24. The Essential Earthman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The most soul-satisfying gardening book in years." --New York Times (March 1982, reviewing the 1981 cloth edition from IU Press). "Genuinely a classic..." --Los Angeles Times (on the occasion of Houghton Mifflin's paperback edition, which came out in 1994). "Is there anyone alive with the slightest interest in gardening who doesn't know that Henry Mitchell is one of the funniest and most truthful garden columnists we've got?" --Allen Lacy "Mitchell is a joy to read. He has tried and failed, persevered and triumphed, and he has many sound recommendations for us fumblers and failures." --Celestine Sibley, in the Atlanta Constitution. "Henry Mitchell is one of America's most entertaining and enlightening garden writers.... 'Garden writer' fails, in truth, to describe this man. He gardens and he writes--the former, if we take him at his word, with lust and loathing, foolhardiness and finesse; the latter with gentle irony and consummate skill." --Pacific Horticulture "Mitchell mixes practical advice, encouragement, philosophic consolation and wit. He is the neighbor you wish you could talk to over the back fence." --House and Garden Henry Mitchell was to gardening what Izaak Walton was to fishing. The Essential Earthman is a collection of the best of his long-running column for the Washington Post. Although he offered invaluable tips for novice as well as seasoned gardeners, at the heart of his essays were piquant observations: on keeping records; the role of trees in gardens (they don't belong there); how a gardener should weather the winter; on shrubs, bulbs, and fragrant flowers--and about observation itself. Here's one example: Marigolds gain enormously in impact when used as sparingly as ultimatums. Henry Mitchell came to his subject with reverence, passion, humor, and a contagious enthusiasm tempered only by his sober knowledge of human frailty. The Essential Earthman is for all who love gardening--even those who only dream of doing it.
One Man's Garden
One Man's Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One Man's Garden write by Henry Mitchell. This book was released on 1994-10. One Man's Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Henry Mitchell's writing "combined the cadences of the Book of Common Prayer with the timing of Jack Benny. He was humble, cantankerous, ironic, and forbearing. He is sorely missed" (Allen Lacy).
The English Flower Garden
The English Flower Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Flower Garden write by William Robinson. This book was released on 2011-11-24. The English Flower Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 1883 best-selling gardening book revolutionised garden design in later Victorian England, advocating a more natural style.
The View from Federal Twist
The View from Federal Twist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The View from Federal Twist write by James Golden. This book was released on 2022-03. The View from Federal Twist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Federal Twist is set on a ridge above the Delaware River in western New Jersey. It is a naturalistic garden that has loose boundaries and integrates closely with the natural world that surrounds it. It has no utilitarian or leisure uses (no play areas, swimming pools, or outdoor dining) and the site is not an obvious choice for a garden (heavy clay soil, poorly drained: quick death for any plants not ecologically suited to it). The physical garden, its plants and its features, is of course an appealing and pleasant place to be but Federal Twist's real charm and significance lie in its intangible aspects: its changing qualities and views, the moods and emotions it evokes, and its distinctive character and sense of place. This book charts the author's journey in making such a garden. How he made a conscious decision not to "improve the land", planted large, competitive plants into rough grass, experimented with seeding to develop sustainable plant communities. And how he worked with light to provoke certain moods and allowed the energy of the place, chance, and randomness to have its say. Part experimental horticulturist and part philosopher, James Golden has written an important book for naturalistic and ecological gardeners and anyone interested in exploring the relationship between gardens, nature, and ourselves.
