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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... February 11 , 1986 , I did not have the slightest inkling of what lay ahead for me . I knew of Elizabeth Lawrence , of course , but the garden had been neglected for two years by another owner , and on that cold and dismal winter day it ...
... February 1962 , she found “ two violet flowers of Crocus imperati in the melting snow . " These same lovely bulbs continue to delight me with their radiant blossoms each winter . The identity of the summer snowflakes in the garden has ...
... February are frosty and cold but if October and November be snow and frost, then January and February are open and mild.'' In general I have found it true that warm weather before Christmas is followed by cold weather afterward and vice ...
... February, just as it was getting dark, thinking that it was really not worthwhile to make his usual tour of the garden, and certainly not to the farthest corner of the orchard to see if the witch hazel had come out. But he thought ...
... February. Last year there was not a flower until the first week in March. Mine is the variegated form. The slender leaves are tapered at both ends and have wavy cream-colored margins. It is said to be hardier and more floriferous than ...
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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 |