Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters
10 best books like Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters (Emily Herring Wilson): Queen Elizabeth in the Garden: A Story of Love, Rivalry, and Spectacular Gardens, The House by the Sea, Our Life in Gardens, My Garden (Book), Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden, Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Onward and Upward in the Garden, The Writer in the Garden, Down the Garden Path
Queen Elizabeth in the Garden: A Story of Love, Rivalry, and Spectacular Gardens
| Author | Trea Martyn |
| ISBN | 1933346361 |
Why four stars when I continually fell asleep reading this book. First, it's about gardens we can no longer see so there are no photographs. If anyone had asked me, I would have suggested line drawings of the plants and flowers, many no longer known even to long-time (United States)gardeners. Such poetic...
| Author | May Sarton |
| ISBN | 0393313905 |
This is the sixth of Sarton’s journals I’ve read. It covers 1975–6, when she was 63–4 and in her second year in Maine. Her health is not yet a worry, at least as compared to later journals, but there is a faint sense of diminished abilities and an awareness of death’s approach. Poetry has run dry...
| Author | Joe Eck |
| ISBN | 0374160317 |
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise—in this case, gardening—there really is no such thing as separately."
With...
| Author | Jamaica Kincaid |
| ISBN | 0374527768 |
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): she gathers all she loves about...
| Author | Sara Bonnett Stein |
| ISBN | 0395709407 |
The day is not far off when we will be forced to admit that suburbs are bad for us.
Its symptoms are varied, but the root problem can be stated simply: suburbia encourages connections neither with our neighbors, nor with the land. Ecology is sterilized by permanent real-estate-listing-style...
| Author | Diane Ackerman |
| ISBN | 0060199865 |
In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.
Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in...
A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from “Annuals” and “Artichokes” to “Weeds” and “Wildflowers.” An amateur gardener for over thirty...
Onward and Upward in the Garden
| Author | Katharine S. White |
| ISBN | 0807085618 |
Katharine White began working at The New Yorker in 1925, the year of its founding, and was an editor there for thirty-four years, shaping the careers of such writers as John O'Hara, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jean Stafford. Throughout and beyond those years she was also a gardener. In 1958, when her job as...
| Author | Jane Garmey |
| ISBN | 1565121813 |
Not the least of the charms of this collection is that it is printed on quality paper, with delightful line drawings, and is just the right size to encourage the reader to take it in hand and turn the pages--which they will surely want to do once they have dipped into any chapter, where they will find some...
| Author | Beverley Nichols |
| ISBN | 0881927104 |
Rating Clarification: 4.5 Stars
This is one of those books that would have forever remained hidden from my reading world without the auspices of Goodreads in general and my GR buddy Leslie in particular (to Leslie - thanks for your squee-worthy review which led me to read this).
Written...
| Author | Amy Stewart |
| ISBN | 0312287674 |
Amy Stewart had a simple dream. She wanted a garden.
When she and her husband finished graduate school, they headed west to Santa Cruz, California. With little money in their pockets, they found a modest seaside cottage with a small backyard. It wasn’t much—a twelve-hundred-square-foot...
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
| Author | Sydney Eddison |
| ISBN | 1604692669 |
From the winner of the National Garden Club's Award of Excellence
Although the garden may beckon as strongly as ever, the tasks involved—pulling weeds, pushing wheelbarrows, digging holes, moving heavy pots—become increasingly difficult, or even impossible, with advancing age....
| Author | Reginald Arkell |
| ISBN | 0812967380 |
Back in print after fifty years
Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer...
| Author | Emily Whaley |
| ISBN | 0684843870 |
The vibrant, opinionated, and totally engaging voice of eighty-five-year-old Emily Whaley transforms a guided tour of one of the most visited private gardens in America into a magical adventure, alive with tidbits of advice and deeply moving reflections.Gardeners are not the only ones who will...
| Author | Karel Čapek |
| ISBN | 0826486258 |
It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one. The Gardener's Year is a charismatic product of Karel Capek's...
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
| Author | Marta McDowell |
| ISBN | 1604693630 |
A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Garden Writers Association Gold Award
There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters—Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest—exist in...
| Author | Tovah Martin |
| ISBN | 0395436095 |
Tasha Tudor's poignant art has fascinated adults and children for decades. Her nineteenth-century New England lifestyle is legendary. Gardeners are especially intrigued by the profusion of antique flowers -- spectacular poppies, six-foot foxgloves, and intoxicating peonies -- in the cottage...
Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden
| Author | Vita Sackville-West |
| ISBN | 1250060052 |
From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful...
The Education of a Gardener
| Author | Russell Page |
| ISBN | 1590172310 |
Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical...
What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?): A Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies
| Author | David Deardorff |
| ISBN | 0881929611 |
Become a Plant Doctor—No Ph.D. Required!
What's Wrong With My Plant? provides an easy system for visually diagnosing any garden plant problem and matching it to the right cure. By offering organic solutions for over 400 plant maladies, this book is the go-to source whenever your...
