Spend the entire year with Abbie Zabar, for your garden and for your soul. From her rooftop perch, Zabar, noted gardener and author of the best-selling The Potted Herb, here shares the practical-- and universal-- truths that are at the heart of everyone's gardening experience. Her rich wisdom will inspire all readers to cultivate their lives with new-found observations and serenity. Abbie Zabar is an award-winning writer, artist, designer, and gardener, who lives in Manhattan. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, one of the foremost resources of botanical art in the world.
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A perfect gift for the gardener, this book covers its subject with an intensely personal flavor and is exquisitely illustrated. Despite the fact that Zabar gardens on the 21st floor of a New York City apartment building, she has a down-to-earth approach. Author of The Potted Herb, she takes us through the seasons?planning, planting, pruning, harvesting. She observes bird life in her rooftop garden in a "diary of a nest," discusses roots and pots and assembling a garden library. Even winter on Zabar's rooftop has its charms. The combination of instructions, quotations, illustrations and design makes this a stunning book.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Beautiful, about self-discovery via doing something you love,
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This book is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen, and with incredible text, too, which would be easy to overlook given how gorgeous it is visually. It's about coming to know oneself through doing a loved activity well, at the highest level, by a true gourmand who puts Martha Stewart to shame with the quality and care she brings to gardening, cooking, and art. Zabar illustrated and designed the book, as well as wrote the text. She has one of the most famous terrace gardens in New York City, on the penthouse floor overlooking Central Park. She takes you through a year in her garden, opening herself up to the reader about such matters as her divorce, being a woman and artist, materialism, perfectionism, and the beautiful uncontrollability of nature. She is humbled by her garden and learns from it, and teaches what she knows. Throughout the amazing text are quotes from others, written in Zabar's award-winning calligraphy. This book should be read by every woman, gardener, and artist, and should have gotten lots more attention than it did. It's the perfect gift, too, so uplifting and gorgeous!
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