From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer. These were later collected in a set of books published between 1951 and 1958. Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, intense passion for her subject and lively literary flair are timeless and inspirational, making these books essential for any serious gardener's bookshelf. Volume 4 in a series of four anthologies reproducing the lively gardening columns by Vita Sackville-West. This volume covers 1955–8.
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... the best light reading on the topic to reappear this year are still the collections of newspaper articles by Vita Sackville West ! They unite a literary turn with practical knowledge and a whimsical, inquiring mind and eye. I hope that no generation of new gardeners will grow up without reading such delights as her In Your Garden Again. These books inspired me to try to be a gardening columnist -- Robin Lane Fox Financial Times
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Vita Sackville-West is known as much for her creation of the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle with her husband Harold Nicolson as for her numerous novels, which include The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, her collections of poetry and her gardening articles. A central figure in the Bloomsbury group of artists and writers, she was the model for Virginia Woolf's Orlando. She died in 1962.
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IT might be agreeable to start the year with a consideration of scents, a mysterious and alluring subject suggested to me by the queer behaviour of two pots of Persian cyclamen I had raised from seed of a specially selected sweet-scented strain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
climbing strawberry, hybrid perpetuals, amateur gardener, hybrid teas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Docteur Jamain, Royal Horticultural Society, August Seebauer, Dictionary of Gardening, Graham Thomas, John's Wort, Miss Sackville-West, Morning Glory, United States, Vincent Square, William Robinson New!
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IT might be agreeable to start the year with a consideration of scents, a mysterious and alluring subject suggested to me by the queer behaviour of two pots of Persian cyclamen I had raised from seed of a specially selected sweet-scented strain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
climbing strawberry, hybrid perpetuals, amateur gardener, hybrid teas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Docteur Jamain, Royal Horticultural Society, August Seebauer, Dictionary of Gardening, Graham Thomas, John's Wort, Miss Sackville-West, Morning Glory, United States, Vincent Square, William Robinson New!
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- Northern Ireland (Cambridge Regional Geography) by Douglas A. Hill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Old Shrub Roses by Graham St. Thomas on page 78, and page 127
- Northern Ireland by Robert Blair in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Old Garden Roses (The Old roses series) by Edward H. Bunyard on page 128
- We Made a Garden (Royal Horticultural Society Classic Garden Writers) by Margery Fish on page 87
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- The English Garden by Ursula Buchan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Virago Book of Women Gardeners by Deborah Kellaway in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Writer in the Garden by Jane Garmey in Back Matter
- Gardening at Sissinghurst by Tony Lord in Back Matter
- Hardy Perennials by Graham Rice in Back Matter
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