Notes from Madoo Making a Garden in the Hamptons

Name: Notes from Madoo Making a Garden in the Hamptons
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ISBN: 9780618016921

ISBN-10: 0618016929

ISBN-13: 9780618016921

Edition: 2000 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: Robert Dash

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Madoo is an artist's unusual and beautiful garden at the far end of Long Island. Described in the New York Times as "Robert Dash's ever-changing masterpiece," it has been pictured in many books and magazines and visited by lovers of gardens from this country and abroad. Now the author/artist/gardener describes his making of Madoo in a book that is as charming and entertaining as it is enlightening. Dash"s artist's sense --or senses -- of the movement of air and the effects of light and color suffuse all his writings, and show us new ways to look at our own gardens. As with Henry Mitchell's books, one learns more from reading these essays than from a dozen how-to books. And whether we like…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 6/20/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Robert Dash's garden, now the Madoo Conservancy, has appeared in many books and magazine articles and is visited each summer by world-famous horticulturists as well as thousands of garden tourists. Dash is also a popular lecturer. He resides in New York.



Preface


Introduction: English Bones, American Flesh


The Death of a Field


Color, a Point of Hue


The Chemical-Free Garden





The Sarvis Tree


Mountain Laurel


Forsythia


Black Pussy Willow


Almost Spring


Seeds


Notes





False Indigo


Rattle-bags


Plume Poppy


Broom


First Garden


Fairies


Weather


Our Climate


Forecasters


Drought


Gloria


May


The Name of the Rose


Trees





Wisteria


Clematis


Gardeners


The Man with a Spade


Mother


Arthur McCullough and His Willow Water


Ainsworth Cyphers


Gertrude Jekyll


Roses


Paths


Seats





Lettuce Forever


Basil


Celery and Celeriac, Lovage and Smallage


Alliums and Others


Nuts and Berries


The Autumn Raspberry


A Problem Area


High Summer


Slug Control





Gilbert Wild's Daylities


Monkshood Blues


Tansy


Cleome


Mallows


Clethra


The Garden Tour


Late Summer Skies


The Fall of Summer


Planting Bulbs


Striking Vegetables





Helenium


Cosmos


Milkweed


Japanese Wood Anemone


Transplanting


Manuring


November Blooms


Birds


The Hill


Withered Things


A Mild Winter


Solstice


Pits


February


Eden


Epilogue