Anxious Gardener

Name: Anxious Gardener
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ISBN: 9780711226630

ISBN-10: 0711226636

ISBN-13: 9780711226630

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jean Sturgis, Rozsika Parker, Dylan Singh

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And what gardener is not anxious? In The Anxious Gardener, Rozsika Parker wittily addresses the worries evoked by a series of gardening tasks over the course of a year. Each episode involves a dialogue between the Anxious Gardener and the Gardening Mentor, who offers practical solutions to all-too-emotional dilemmas. A third voice, belonging to Maud-Next-Door, dispenses understanding and envy in unequal measure through the latticework of trellis surrounding the Anxious Gardener's flowerbeds. As the seeds of desire are sown, the A.G. is led into temptation, insists on monogamy, unwillingly accepts aging, and fails to leave well alone. This book explore the emotional life of the gardener: the…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group UK
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 6.65" wide x 8.86" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 11.968
Language: English



Autumn: The anxious gardener...


Broods on window boxes


Fears for the future of her bulbs


Makes excuses


Repulses an invader


Discovers change is possible


Lives to regret mail order


Is perplexed by planting


Longs for the unobtainable


Struggles with a rose sucker


Needs space


Has doubts about mulching


Grows concerned about clematis


Spring: The anxious gardener...


Falls victim to violets


Gives up on grass


Manages parthenogenesis


Sows the seeds of desire


Has a stab at spring pruning


Searches for a solution to snails


Confronts repetition compulsion


Listens for applause


Is haunted by failures


Hesitates to cut back


Confronts unpredictability


Fears the void


Turns to natural born killers


Is unhappy with helianthemums


Procrastinates


Summer: The anxious gardener...


Is overwhelmed by bindweed


Steers clear of variegated varieties


Suffers horticultural amnesia


Weeds in ignorance


Is led into temptation


Hungers for originality


Copes with the collapse of a sidalcea


Abandons hope


Pursues the perfect rose


Dreads seeming dated


Is allergic to yellow


Wants to be ecologically sound


Takes against pinching out


Insists on monogamy


Takes up arms against a sea of climbers


Accepts ageing unwillingly


Dislikes July


Has a moment of optimism


Fails to leave well alone


Encounters envy


Gets depressed


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