A Gentle Plea For Chaos: Reissued
by Mirabel Osler /
2011 / English / EPUB
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In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and
how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She
suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening
with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and
always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the
19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the
gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with
their hollyhocks.
In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and
how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She
suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening
with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and
always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the
19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the
gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with
their hollyhocks.
