In My Garden

Name: In My Garden
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ISBN: 9780028600338

ISBN-10: 0028600339

ISBN-13: 9780028600338

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Authors: Christopher Lloyd

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"Christopher Lloyd and his garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex, England, have entranced gardeners and garden lovers for decades. The author of numerous books and essays about gardening, he is one of those rare garden writers, like Gertrude Jekyll, whose work achieves the status of literature." "In My Garden collects for the first time Lloyd's renowned essays for Country Life magazine. In rich, literate prose, he shares not only vitally useful horticultural information but also witty, opinionated observations on the many vicissitudes of the gardening life. Lloyd beautifully articulates the unique style of gardening - one of mixed borders brimming with bright colors and bold foliage - that…

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List price: $22.00
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Preface	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Dying Gracefully	p. 9
Gardening with Ferns Inclusively	p. 11
The Recurrent Theme of Winter	p. 14
Gardening Unrest Cures	p. 17
Going Native	p. 19
Taking Over	p. 21
A Diet of Roots	p. 24
Catch Phrases and Covert Comments	p. 31
Servant or Master	p. 33
The Pond Is Still Alive	p. 36
Slow: Dogs About	p. 39
The Spring is Sprung	p. 43
Discovery and Revelation	p. 45
Tree Care	p. 48
A Lack of Vision	p. 51
Courses for Corpses	p. 57
That Cold Draughty Corner	p. 59
When Plants Take Over	p. 62
Stakes on the Future	p. 65
Coming to Terms with Rhododendrons	p. 68
Visit an English Garden	p. 71
The Snouts Go Shooting	p. 73
The Old Rose Garden	p. 79
Not Always as They Seem	p. 82
Planting for the Blind	p. 84
Deep in the Border	p. 87
My First Orchid	p. 89
Moral and Immoral Scents	p. 92
Bearing Gifts	p. 95
Survivors from the Ice Age	p. 101
On With the New	p. 103
Suburban Trees and Shrubs	p. 106
Nodal, Internodal and All That	p. 109
Camera Shy	p. 111
Dead Head Hunting	p. 114
A Study in Contrasts	p. 116
Irresistible Coyness of Gazanias	p. 123
Rape	p. 125
Which Plants are Poisonous?	p. 128
Full Borders Without Crushing	p. 131
Silly Season	p. 133
Lupins	p. 136
Seats and Scents	p. 139
Label Talk	p. 145
The New Village Garden	p. 148
Behind the Shore Line	p. 150
Absence Makes the Weeds Grow Faster	p. 153
Keyhole Scents	p. 156
Training a Critical Eye	p. 159
On Making a Fuss	p. 161
A Time for Yellow Daisies	p. 163
Current Preoccupations	p. 169
In Search of Originality	p. 171
Those Welcome Intruders	p. 174
Recharging Your Batteries	p. 177
Time to Stake the Lettuces	p. 179
Shun the Invisible Worm	p. 182
Cultivating a Catholic Taste	p. 185
The Anatomy of Pears	p. 191
Edible Toadstools from the Garden	p. 193
Which Way the Worm Turns	p. 196
The Ginger Group	p. 199
Helicopterous Flowers	p. 202
Blue Beauty Queens the Waters	p. 204
More Haste Less Speed	p. 207
Death of a Hibiscus	p. 213
All Sweetness and Light	p. 215
Perspective on Gardening	p. 218
Hurrah for Vulgarity	p. 220
Peel Me a Walnut	p. 223
The Smell of Autumn	p. 226
Overrated? Underrated?	p. 228
Vegetables for Ornament	p. 235
Indoor Companions	p. 237
Bird Behaviour in the Garden	p. 240
Only a Cat Nap	p. 242
The Houseleeks in My Life	p. 245
The Sweet Disease	p. 247
Fig Years Past and Future	p. 250
The Garden in Winter	p. 255
Compensations for Drowning	p. 258
Long-flowering Plants	p. 260
Other Men's Weeds	p. 263
A Question of Upbringing	p. 266
Between Scylla and Charibdis	p. 268
Index of Botanical Names	p. 273
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