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A Gentle Plea for Chaos: Reflections from an English Garden (Paperback)

by Mirabel Osler (Author)
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  • Paperback: 187 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (23 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747548005
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747548003
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 626,005 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In this book, the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very special book, 25 Aug 2002
I picked this book up by chance when waiting for a train. At the time I wasn't even interested in gardening, I just liked the cover and was in a hurry, and yet I still found it fascinating and particularly thought-provoking.

It is a collection of losely themed reflections on gardening which, to me at least, brings insight on things beyond its obvious subject.

The author and her husband begin as relative beginners taking on a very large garden. They learn as they go along. There is information of what plants do well in what places, but only incidentally: the bread and butter of this book is reflective musings on how it feels to be a gardener, in good times and bad, throughout the year. Mirabel Osler's feeling for plants and for the landscape, her old-fashioned, broadly cultured frame of reference and the civilized assumption of an equally thoughtful and urbane reader make this one of my favourite books.

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