Through the Garden Gate is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for The Charlotte Observer from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of gardening lore, horticultural expertise, and personal adventures, Lawrence inspired thousands of southern gardeners.
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This excellent collection of essays gives us another chance to read Lawrence, whose work is endlessly rewarding. They make us envy those for whom she was a weekly columnist--readers of the Charlotte Observer , in which these pieces appeared between 1957 and 1971. The idea for this collection was born when her friend Bill Neal discovered some of these old newspapers. The essays are arranged by month, and an index provides a guide to specific plant information. Lawrence was a fine writer and horticulturist, and the books she published during her lifetime--her last being Gardens of Love ( LJ 5/15/87)--are already classics. This new collection of her work is welcome, indeed.
- Deci Lowry, Chappaqua, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
- Deci Lowry, Chappaqua, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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[A] fine contribution to the green-thumb genre.
Publishers Weekly
This collection is a treasure.
ALA Booklist
Lawrence is always inspiring. . . . both in the joy of gardening and more practical matters.
Penelope Hobhouse, author of Garden Style
I have learned more about horticulture, plants, and garden history and literature from Elizabeth Lawrence than from any other . . . person.
Katharine S. White in Onward and Upward in the Garden
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme,
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Miss Lawrence says, "Dill is a hardy annual. The seeds can be sown in fall or early spring. The seedlings must be thinned, and Mrs. Clarkson says she saves every scrap that is pulled up. She uses them in potato salad, and sprinkles them over broiled lamb."Miss Lawrence has distilled much of her gardening and some of her cooking knowledge into this lovely little book (about 250 pages). Ideas abound from sources such as old wives tales, myths, stories, poetry, and the miscellaneous information passed along to Miss Lawrence from her correspondents, friends, and readers. Reading this text is like sitting at a wise woman's knee and listening to her tell about past times. Will it rain on Saint Swithin's Day (July 15th) as it did in 971 A.D when his body was transferred from a forgotten grave to the Cathedral for a proper burial? Were the Chinese, who considered the frog the lord of waters onto something, "Send soon O frog the jewel of water." But my favorite writing is the poetry she intersperses into the text -- "A bank where the wild thyme blows, Where Oxlips and the nodding Violet grows, Quite over canopied with lucious woodbine, with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine." Planted any eglantine lately..?
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Timeless gardening advice,
By Debra Stockton (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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As I look out at silvered evergreens on a morning when thin ice coats the garden pool, the delicate work that has been done in the night reminds me of what V. Sackville-West said in The Garden, that frost must be forestalled as an enemy, and used as a friend. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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North Carolina, Miss Jekyll, Caroline Dormon, Miss Hazel, Mississippi Market Bulletin, Elizabeth Clarkson, Mittie Wellford, South Carolina, Mount Vernon, Saint John, Gulf Coast, May Day, Miss Carson, New Year's Day, Old Time Gardens, Miss Kate, New York, Old World, Queen Anne, Seven Sisters, Gertrude Jekyll, Hortus Second, Miss Rohde, Oxford English Dictionary, Palm Sunday New!
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As I look out at silvered evergreens on a morning when thin ice coats the garden pool, the delicate work that has been done in the night reminds me of what V. Sackville-West said in The Garden, that frost must be forestalled as an enemy, and used as a friend. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
market bulletin, plantain lily, royal fern, southern gardens, hyacinth bean Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, Miss Jekyll, Caroline Dormon, Miss Hazel, Mississippi Market Bulletin, Elizabeth Clarkson, Mittie Wellford, South Carolina, Mount Vernon, Saint John, Gulf Coast, May Day, Miss Carson, New Year's Day, Old Time Gardens, Miss Kate, New York, Old World, Queen Anne, Seven Sisters, Gertrude Jekyll, Hortus Second, Miss Rohde, Oxford English Dictionary, Palm Sunday New!
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- Old Time Gardens by Alice Morse Earle on 7 pages
- A Southern Garden by Elizabeth Lawrence in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- My Garden in Summer (My Garden Series) by E. A. Bowles on page 39, page 48, and page 150
- The Natural Gardens of North Carolina (Chapel Hill Book) by B. W. Wells on page 10, and page 15
- Gardens in Winter by Elizabeth Lawrence in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence by Emily Herring Wilson on 7 pages
- A Garden of One's Own: Writings of Elizabeth Lawrence by Elizabeth Lawrence on 4 pages
- Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature (Gender and American Culture) by Vera Norwood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Southern Garden by Elizabeth Lawrence in Front Matter
- A Rock Garden in the South by Elizabeth Lawrence in Back Matter
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