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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... 177 Young Belgian Guided Southern Horticulture 179 Meet Caroline Dormon 181 She Talks to the Birds 182 The Hunt Arboretum ...............................................................................................
... Birds 214 Honey 216 Organic Gardening 218 Pruning 219 Pruning Should Be Done Every Day 221 Historic Flower Arrangements 223 Bouquet Carried Messages 224 Pomanders 226 Creatures Add to a Garden 229 Index t Acknowledgments We are deeply ...
... bird cherry, and to paint the stumps with that stu√ that is supposed to kill woody plants. Each sum- mer I let the grape get ahead of me. Then, when it is pulled out of the tree, it breaks the delicate and brittle branches. This year I ...
... does she think the berries are ? ) And the starlings and the jays— Birds that cannot even sing— Dare to come again in spring ! January 1 , 1961 ..................................................................................
... bird of dawning singeth all night long. (Hamlet) Stories of singing birds and bursting buds on the night of the Nativity scarcely seem miraculous when we have one of our warm winters. As I write this, on the third Sunday in Advent ...
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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 |