Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden (Modern Library

Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden (Modern Library Gardening)

â€œUnlike any other gardening book I know, with its Old World charm, its down-to-earth practicality, its whimsy and sophistication.â€â€”Brooke Astor,Â The New York Times Book Review

A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from â€œAnnualsâ€ and â€œArtichokesâ€ to â€œWeedsâ€ and â€œWildflowers.â€ An amateur gardener for over thirty years, Eleanor PerÃ©nyi draws upon her wide-ranging knowledge of gardening lore to create a delightful, witty blend of how-to advice, informed opinion, historical insight, and philosophical musing. There are entries in praise of earthworms and in protest of rock gardens, a treatise on the sexual politics of tending plants, and a paean to the salubrious effect of gardening (see â€œLongevityâ€ ). Twenty years after its initial publication, Green Thoughts remains as much a joy to read as ever.

This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Allen Lacy, former gardening columnist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and the author of numerous gardening books.

â€œYou do not have to be a good gardener to fall in love with Green Thoughts. It reads with the intrepid assurance of a classic.â€â€”Mary McCarthy, The New York Review of Books

â€œOne of those dangerous reference works that you reach for at a moment of horticultural crisis or indecision only to find yourself an hour later browsing far beyond the page where you began.â€â€”The New Yorker
Country USA
Brand Modern Library
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2002-02-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375759451

Country	USA
Brand	Modern Library
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2002-02-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375759451

Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden (Modern Library Gardening)

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