From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer. The columns were later collected into a set of books published between 1951 and 1958. Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for her subject and her lively literary flair make these classics of garden writing essential for any serious gardener's bookshelf.
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... the best light reading on the topic to reappear this year are still the collections of newspaper articles by Vita Sackville West … They unite a literary turn with practical knowledge and a whimsical, inquiring mind and eye. I hope that no generation of new gardeners will grow up without reading such delights ... (Robin Lane Fox Financial Times )
Seasonal, personal and ideas in spades (Country Life )
Best for taking gardens into a different league - she made me see that gardening had links with the poetry and painting I loved. (Mary Keen BBC Gardens Illustrated ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Seasonal, personal and ideas in spades (Country Life )
Best for taking gardens into a different league - she made me see that gardening had links with the poetry and painting I loved. (Mary Keen BBC Gardens Illustrated ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Vita Sackville-West is known as much for her creation of the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle with her husband Harold Nicolson as for her numerous novels, which include The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, her collections of poetry and her gardening articles. A central figure in the Bloomsbury group of artists and writers, she was the model for Virginia Woolf's Orlando. She died in 1962.
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SOME generous friend may have given you a plant-token for Christmas, and you may be wondering, as I am now wondering, how best to expend it. Read the first page
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I was advised by a professional gardener to read this book on tips for winter colour. I bought it for my husband a keen gardener, who has browsed through it. It is not illustrated and refers to ways of and buying that are now obsolete, but it is a charming book packed with advice and commentary that is a pleasure to read.
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This audio book is pure pleasure to listen to if you're at all interested in gardening. Vita wrote a month by month column in a London paper about gardening, and this contains excerpts from these. It goes through the year, season by season, in her famous garden at Sissinghurst Castle in England, during the years immediately following WWII. She shares planting tips, planting mistakes, and offers her views on the style of gardening she made famous. For example, she recommends planting masses of one plant and one color in a defined area of a garden.
In addition to her dry and witty remarks about gardening in general, she discusses the origins of some of the Latin names of plants, and she indirectly gives us a peek into some of the English culture of the "country house" at that time. The reader is superb! One can actually imagine that, had Vita read it for us herself, she would've used the same tone and inflection. I love this tape. I've given this as a gift to fellow-gardeners, and have listened to it myself over and over. It a real gem!
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