Edited by Jane Garmey. Read by Boyd Gaines, Deborah Hazlett, Simon Jones, J.D. McClatchy, Pamela Salem, Lisa Banes, and Elizabeth Smith. Over the centuries, gardens and gardening have proved a fertile source of inspiration for writers and poets alike. Here is a wonderfully engaging selection of garden writing culled from essays, fiction, poetry, journalism, diaries, and letters. Excerpts span not only the beauties of the garden but such far-reaching topics as weeds, the tribulations of gardening in a cold climate, the dangers of rare plant collecting, the delights of weeding, the pitfalls of growing roses, and the place of “tacky” in a garden.
With selections carefully chosen from both sides of the Atlantic, this expansive anthology pays homage to the great garden writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, while introducing the listener to some of the most original voices of today’s generation of garden writers.