Sleep, Creep, Leap: The First Three Years Of A Nebraska Garden
by Benjamin Vogt /
2012 / English / EPUB
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Peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburned back. Visiting five
nurseries and spending $1,000 in an afternoon. Raising 200 monarch
butterflies. Hearing the wing beats of geese thirty feet overhead
at sunset. How one piece of mulch can make all the difference.
These are the stories of Benjamin Vogt’s 1,500 foot native prairie
garden over the course of three years. After a small patio garden
at his last home teases him into avid tinkering, the blank canvas
of his new marriage and quarter acre lot prove to be a rich place
full of delight, anguish, and rapture in all four seasons. Full of
lyrical, humorous, and botanical short essays, SLEEP, CREEP, LEAP
will leave you inspired to sit a while with your plants, noticing
how the smallest events become the largest—and how the garden
brings us down to earth so that we can come home to our lives.
Peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburned back. Visiting five
nurseries and spending $1,000 in an afternoon. Raising 200 monarch
butterflies. Hearing the wing beats of geese thirty feet overhead
at sunset. How one piece of mulch can make all the difference.
These are the stories of Benjamin Vogt’s 1,500 foot native prairie
garden over the course of three years. After a small patio garden
at his last home teases him into avid tinkering, the blank canvas
of his new marriage and quarter acre lot prove to be a rich place
full of delight, anguish, and rapture in all four seasons. Full of
lyrical, humorous, and botanical short essays, SLEEP, CREEP, LEAP
will leave you inspired to sit a while with your plants, noticing
how the smallest events become the largest—and how the garden
brings us down to earth so that we can come home to our lives.