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quick and pleasurable read, this is actually excerpted from the book "Wood and Garden, " Had I realized I would not have ordered this but simply gotten "Wood and Garden, " This is from Penguin's "English ourneys" series, Penguin seems to be on a kick of publishing little books excerpted from larger works, See also their "Great Food" series, Why not ust publish the full works to begin with I read this in an evening, but it was a pleasant evening with Gertrude and left me wanting to read more of her books.
Her religiosity

and snobbishness grate, although the latter is so blatant as to be almost amusing, but her writing is quite powerful.
She describes scents and colours with verve and total conviction that her own opinion is right, This is a little book which fits into your pocket and is ideal for reading at odd moments, e.
g. when waiting at bus stops, It's a selection from "Wood and garden", enough to whet your appetite if you want to read the actual book.
The most interesting chapters for me were the one on colour, and the social background to some of the comments about gardeners and the way in which large houses were inhabited for only part of the year and gardens had to be planned accordingly.
This is a celebration of the beauties and Possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle, Auricula. Snapdragon Spanish Iris and Corydalis and all the other plants that Enliven and Exalt the Gardens of England, Gertrude Jekyll gives good advice on how to make a garden a place of repose and pleasure, Writing with enthusiasm on the colours and scents of flowers, on the frustrations and delights of weeding and on the debasing influence of flower shows, she is practical. wise and entertaining in equal measure, Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside but it has profoundly shaped us too, It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers. musicians and people who live and work on the land as well as those who are travelling through it.
English Journeys celeates this long tradition, . . Despite its short length, this book was slow going and a little tedious, It was like listening to an elderly rambling Grandma banging on out about her favourite nasturtiums!

There was little in the way of actual practical advice here, and more the preferences and dislikes of certain plants for Gertrude Jekyll.


Ordinarily I probably wouldn't mind a little nostalgic musing, but with this I just couldn't bothered, Ended up skim reading the last few chapters for any information of value, This minivolume from Penguins English Journeys series feels like a bit of a cheat because its actually extracted from Wood and Garden.
Oh well. Jekyll praises the variety of colors, smells and designs youll find in the average country garden, no matter how modest its size.
She speaks of gardening as a lifelong learning process, humbly acknowledging that shes no expert, “I hold that the best purpose of a garden is to give delight and to give refreshment of mind, to soothe, to refine, and to lift up the heart in a spirit of praise and thankfulness.
a garden is a grand teacher, It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all, it teaches entire trust, ” A musthave stocking stuffer for fans of Penelope Livelys sitelinkLife in the Garden, I'm pretty sure that this will not help me in planning my garden, I found it interesting more because it isyrs old and reads like a philosophy book that uses garden metaphors.
Gertrude Jekyll was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist, She created overgardens in the UK, Europe and the USA and contributed over,articles to Country Life, The Garden and other magazines.
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