V. Sackville-West's Garden book : a collection taken from In your garden, In your garden again, More for your garden, Even more for your garden

276 Pages·1968·23.318 MB·English

by  Vita Sackville-West, Philippa Nicolson

For fourteen years V. Sackville-West
contributed to the Observer an article on
gardening.. Amateur gardeners came to
look forward to it as a weekly pleasure,
for she was a poet and essayist of
distinction as well as a gardener who
had learnt her craft the difficult way, by
creating two large gardens from scratch.
In this book the best of her gardening
journalism has been brought together by
Philippa Nicolson, who lived at
Sissinghurst for many years when
married to Nigel Nicolson, Vita’s son.
Although V. Sackville-West acquired
over many years a great knowledge of
plants and flowers, she was not a
professional gardener, and she did not
write as one, but her lively articles were
always full of sound advice. She
encouraged adventurousness in
gardening, while never forgetting the
limitations of a shallow pocket or a small
patch of land.
The book is divided into twelve chapters
according to the twelve months, but
every chapter is readable in any month,
for she would deliberately let her pen
stray out of season. There are many
ideas discussed in this book which she
first introduced at Sissinghurst, and one
can follow the evolution of concepts into
flowering reality, as in the case of the
White Garden, with the help of the
many illustrations of her own famous
garden.
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Unlike most Writers on gardening, V.
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Sackville-West describes her failures as
well as her successes and dreams, and
the result is a fascinating blend of
stimulating advice and a record of her
creation of the rnuch-loved garden at
Sissinghurst.
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V. SACKVILLE-WEST’S
GARDEN BOOK

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^ Garden Book ^
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MORE FOR YOUR GARDEN
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LONDON
MICHAEL JOSEPH
First published in Great Britain by
MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD
44 Bedford Square
London W.C.l
APRIL 1968
SECOND IMPRESSION NOVEMBER 1968
THIRD IMPRESSION DECEMBER 1969
FOURTH IMPRESSION NOVEMBER 1971
FIFTH IMPRESSION JANUARY 1974
SIXTH IMPRESSION MARCH 1976
SEVENTH IMPRESSION MARCH 1983
EIGHTH IMPRESSION SEPTEMBER 1983
©1968 by Nigel Nicolson
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may
be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
transmitted, in any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording
or otherwise, without the prior permission of
the Copyright owner.
ISBN 0 7181 0536 2
Printed in Great Britain by
Hollen Street Press Ltd, Slough
and bound by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh
Contents
JANUARY
[*3]
FEBRUARY
[i°]
MARCH
[ ]
45
APRIL
[61}
MAY
173)
JUNE
[ 1]
9
JULY
[108]
AUGUST
[129]
SEPTEMBER
['5']
OCTOBER
U74]
NOVEMBER
[201}
DECEMBER
[224]
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