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A Breath from Elsewhere: Musings on Gardens Book

"The charm of gardening is that as everything is forever on the move, you can change and alter things as you go along.... Whatever nourishes your impulses should be your launching pad," writes Mirabel Osler, underlining her enthusiasm for "vicarious gardening," an approach she encourages both the novice and the experienced gardener to consider when thinking about their own patches, in her new book, A Breath from Elsewhere. Offering her wise, witty, and exceedingly insightful views on gardening, Osler (A Gentle Plea for Chaos) winds her way down the garden path, pausing to address the beginners--those individuals tempted, yet still hesitant--and continuing with folks "who have already launched themselves into the unknown region but have not yet found their bearings." The final stop is for those nearing the end of their gardening lives, "for widows and widowers, partners and lovers, who may be struggling to keep the garden going but who can't release themselves from it without being overwhelmed by guilt." With such chapter headings as "There Are No Right Ways to Make a Garden," and "Surfing the Flower Beds," greenhorn gardeners will find comfort as well as inspiration from Osler's candid discussions, while "Dead-Heading the Guilt" allows seasoned gardeners to let go, move on, and make a garden of their own. After all, "by jumping in the deep end rather than treading water, it is possible to do something radical." Osler's argument--to break the golden rules, follow your instincts, and create the garden that you desire--is made ever stronger by her personal approach, pointed humor, and skillful storytelling, effectively drawing the reader further down the path towards the garden as refuge--a place perfectly suited for "inspiration or freedom, for discovery or surrender." --Stefanie HargreavesRead More

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  • Product Description

    This volume takes the reader beyond the author's garden and aims to offer encouragement to all gardenerws, especially novices, to ignore books and try whatever appeals to them. The book begins with the uninitiated, those setting out to garden for the first time; and it ends with those who find themselves with a legacy that becomes increasingly onerous. Mirabel Osler is the author of "A Gentle Plea for Chaos", for which she won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award.

  • 0747530378
  • 9780747530374
  • Mirabel Osler
  • 18 September 1997
  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 218
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