Some years ago (10+ perhaps), I started a book and never got really into it.
It then went missing.

It was about someone who bought a house in France and converted the garden.
The book was mainly about their labour of love on the garden. It was in the
same vein as Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence..but about gardening.

Can anyone identify the book? I'd really like to find it and finish it!

- Mark

url:http://www.myreader.co.uk/gp/1344-1.aspx

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Some years ago (10+ perhaps), I started a book and never got really into it.
It then went missing.

It was about someone who bought a house in France and converted the garden.
The book was mainly about their labour of love on the garden. It was in the
same vein as Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence..but about gardening.

Can anyone identify the book? I'd really like to find it and finish it!

- Mark

url:http://www.myreader.co.uk/gp/1344-1.aspx


Can't help with the book - but it sounds like our life story though!
--
David in Normandy (converting our French bramble jungle into a garden)
:-)

On 5/10/07 20:20, in article ,
"Mark Eadie" wrote:

Some years ago (10+ perhaps), I started a book and never got really into it.
It then went missing.

It was about someone who bought a house in France and converted the garden.
The book was mainly about their labour of love on the garden. It was in the
same vein as Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence..but about gardening.

Can anyone identify the book? I'd really like to find it and finish it!

- Mark

url:http://www.myreader.co.uk/gp/1344-1.aspx

One that comes to mind is Diary of a French Herb Garden by Geraldene Holt.
There's another I'm trying to remember and which I've got stashed away
'somewhere'. If I can find it, I'll post that name, too!
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

On 6/10/07 13:10, in article
, "Sacha"
wrote:

On 5/10/07 20:20, in article ,
"Mark Eadie" wrote:

Some years ago (10+ perhaps), I started a book and never got really into it.
It then went missing.

It was about someone who bought a house in France and converted the garden.
The book was mainly about their labour of love on the garden. It was in the
same vein as Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence..but about gardening.

Can anyone identify the book? I'd really like to find it and finish it!

- Mark

url:http://www.myreader.co.uk/gp/1344-1.aspx

One that comes to mind is Diary of a French Herb Garden by Geraldene Holt.
There's another I'm trying to remember and which I've got stashed away
'somewhere'. If I can find it, I'll post that name, too!

No reaction from Mark, so here's another I think it might be: An English
Garden in Provence by Natasha Spender. Sir Stephen & Lady Spender created a
wonderful garden at the Mas St Jerome in the Alpilles. In 1999 the entire
place was burned to the ground in a forest fire, garden and all - after
forty years of loving work. There's a biography of her here - amazing
woman.
http://tinyurl.com/2hxsf3
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'