Beautiful at All Seasons: Southern Gardening and Beyond with Elizabeth LawrenceDuke University Press, 28.02.2007 г. - 264 страници Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–85) is recognized as one of America’s most important gardeners and garden writers. In 1957, Lawrence began a weekly column for the Charlotte Observer, blending gardening lore and horticultural expertise gained from her own gardens in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina, and from her many gardener friends. This book presents 132 of her beloved columns. Never before published in book form, they were chosen from the more than 700 pieces that she wrote for the Observer over fourteen years. Lawrence exchanged plants and gardening tips with everyone from southern “farm ladies” trading bulbs in garden bulletins to prominent regional gardeners. She corresponded with nursery owners, everyday backyard gardeners, and literary luminaries such as Katharine White and Eudora Welty. Her books, including A Southern Garden, The Little Bulbs, and Gardens in Winter, inspired several generations of gardeners in the South and beyond. The columns in this volume cover specific plants, such as sweet peas, hellebores, peonies, and the bamboo growing outside her living-room window, as well as broader topics including the usefulness of vines, the importance of daily pruning, and organic gardening. Like all of Lawrence’s writing, these columns are peppered with references to conversations with neighbors and quotations from poetry, mythology, and correspondence. They brim with knowledge gained from a lifetime of experimenting in her gardens, from her visits to other gardens, and from her extensive reading. Lawrence once wrote, “Dirty fingernails are not the only requirement for growing plants. One must be as willing to study as to dig, for a knowledge of plants is acquired as much from books as from experience.” As inspiring today as when they first appeared in the Charlotte Observer, the columns collected in Beautiful at All Seasons showcase not only Lawrence’s vast knowledge but also her intimate, conversational writing style and her lifelong celebration of gardens and gardening. |
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... Christmas Time 5 Flowers Greet the New Year 7 Winter Flowers 8 The Green Winter 9 A Hard Winter 11 Bamboo 13 Storm Damage 14 The Merry Month of May 16 18 Tender Perennials for Hot-Weather Gardens Flowers in the Fall Border 19 Fragrance ...
... —Kalimeris pinnatifida Hellebores The Christmas Rose and Other Hellebores Giridlian ... A Master of Plants 58 Night-Blooming Cereus 59 The Dividends of Fall Planting 61 Savannah Lands of East Carolina 62 Petasites ...
... Christmas Tree International Christmas Trees The Flowers of the Trinity 203 The Flowers of Passiontide 205 The Story of the Passion Flower 206 Rituals of the Palms 208 Rogation Days—The Blessing of the Crops ...
... Christmas honeysuckle, Loni- cera fragrantissima, that is dull at its best, shabby at its worst, and never the least bit beautiful, even when in full bloom. . .. This, I hasten to say, is not the fault of the nurserymen. It is the fault ...
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Two Perennials and Annuals | 29 |
Three Bulbs Corms and Tubers | 65 |
Four Trees and Shrubs | 83 |
E A Bowless Lunatics | 125 |
Five Vegetables and Herbs Climbers and Creepers | 129 |
Six Gardeners and Gardens | 151 |
Seven Gods Legends and Rituals | 185 |
Eight Bits and Pieces | 211 |
Index | 229 |