V. Sackville-West's Garden book : a collection taken from In your garden, In your garden again, More for your garden, Even more for your garden PDF
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For fourteen years V. Sackville-West contributed to the Observer an article on gardening.. Amateur gardeners came to look forward to it as a weekly pleasure, for she was a poet and essayist of distinction as well as a gardener who had learnt her craft the difficult way, by creating two large gardens from scratch. In this book the best of her gardening journalism has been brought together by Philippa Nicolson, who lived at Sissinghurst for many years when married to Nigel Nicolson, Vita’s son. Although V. Sackville-West acquired over many years a great knowledge of plants and flowers, she was not a professional gardener, and she did not write as one, but her lively articles were always full of sound advice. She encouraged adventurousness in gardening, while never forgetting the limitations of a shallow pocket or a small patch of land. The book is divided into twelve chapters according to the twelve months, but every chapter is readable in any month, for she would deliberately let her pen stray out of season. There are many ideas discussed in this book which she first introduced at Sissinghurst, and one can follow the evolution of concepts into flowering reality, as in the case of the White Garden, with the help of the many illustrations of her own famous garden. O Unlike most Writers on gardening, V. o o' Sackville-West describes her failures as well as her successes and dreams, and the result is a fascinating blend of stimulating advice and a record of her creation of the rnuch-loved garden at Sissinghurst. o Jacket photo/MICHAEL WARREN £9.95 net „ m )AUJ V L APR 9 8 fi£C.'D 3 111 0 721 1 382 SEP 8 1998 SEP - 2 2003 DEMCO INC 38-2931 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/vsackvillewestsgOOsack V. SACKVILLE-WEST’S GARDEN BOOK V. Sackville-West’ ^ Garden Book ^ A collection by Philippa Nicolson taken from IN YOUR GARDEN IN YOUR GARDEN AGAIN MORE FOR YOUR GARDEN EVEN MORE FOR YOUR GARDEN f 9 A « f , J1' p » T- 5 » « i 13 f nr wds i f.O* V*' iid LONDON MICHAEL JOSEPH First published in Great Britain by MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD 44 Bedford Square London W.C.l APRIL 1968 SECOND IMPRESSION NOVEMBER 1968 THIRD IMPRESSION DECEMBER 1969 FOURTH IMPRESSION NOVEMBER 1971 FIFTH IMPRESSION JANUARY 1974 SIXTH IMPRESSION MARCH 1976 SEVENTH IMPRESSION MARCH 1983 EIGHTH IMPRESSION SEPTEMBER 1983 ©1968 by Nigel Nicolson All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Copyright owner. ISBN 0 7181 0536 2 Printed in Great Britain by Hollen Street Press Ltd, Slough and bound by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh Contents JANUARY [*3] FEBRUARY [i°] MARCH [ ] 45 APRIL [61} MAY 173) JUNE [ 1] 9 JULY [108] AUGUST [129] SEPTEMBER ['5'] OCTOBER U74] NOVEMBER [201} DECEMBER [224] Index
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