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Cheryl Isaak · 16-10-2009, 12:30 PM posted to rec.gardens

On 10/14/09 11:13 PM, in article
, "FarmI" ask@itshall be
given wrote:

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
On 10/14/09 3:19 AM, in article
, "FarmI" ask@itshall be
given wrote:

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
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I came into this thread late. Have you read Beverly Nichols? While it
is
the British trends he covers, it might give you some wonderful insight.

Delightful books and well worth reading but Nichols' garden books were
about
gardens that predate the time frame mentioned by the OP.

C

I was thinking of Gardens Open Today as being a "60's" garden...but I
could
be wrong

You could be right too though. I've not read that one. I've read the
series that included 'Laughter on the Stairs' - where he starts from knowing
nothing to having that huge garden and being very picky about his plants.

Hmmm - I have a whole bunch of "garden memoir" books.. Maybe I need to go
do
some re-reading.. All of the ones I've kept were such happy reads. Dumped
"Green Thoughts" - while the author wrote well and informatively, there
was
something about her that just rubbed be the wrong way.

:-)) Your mention of him made me think that I needed to reread too. I
share the series with a friend as we both bought some of the set but they
live at her house.

I'm going to take some time next week and find all my BN and a few others.
In particular, "Onward and Upward in the Garden" by Katherine White and the
Richardson Wright books need to come to the fore...

Reading is an interesting adventure these days. I had switch from a combined
script to "distance" and readers for my glasses. (I could not adjust to
bifocals; apparently there is some percentage of the population that can't.)
I can see fine to read and stitch, but need switch back and forth if I need
to get up and do something (like laundry or answer the door).

Cheryl