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In America and England, they are known as kitchen gardens. In France they are called potagers. But the difference lies in more than a name, Gertrude Stein notwithstanding. It's a matter of style, of transforming a utilitarian plot into a thing of beauty that will please the eye as well as fill the table. Jones, an expatriate Canadian who has lived and gardened in the south of France for 20 years, offers a charming glimpse into gardens both humble and grand in which common vegetables rub shoulders with flowers, fruit trees and herbs. Following the history of the potager from the self-sufficient medieval cloisters to today's seemingly haphazard melange, she details garden design and such structures as walls and fences and the various plants that bring it all to life. Appendixes note French gardens that welcome visitors and offer 80 recipes for classic French home-cooked dishes and seed sources for the American gardener. The text is embellished with 175 handsome color photographs of gardens and their fruits. BOMC selection.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Jones (Gardens of Provence, Abbeville, 1992) has been gardening in France since 1975. Here she presents the potager (the kitchen garden or vegetable plot) as an art form, with culinary use as a secondary consideration. Alluding to garden references by Colette, Henry James, Rousseau, and others, she discusses vegetable gardens in the dimensions of space and time. Jones explains that French gardens are enclosed by walls or hedges and lined with espaliered fruit trees or vines; pathways establish the outlines, with water and vertical features filling in. Appendixes give ideas for designing a potager, seed sources, public gardens, books consulted, and recipe suggestions. Equally important are the 175 full-color photographs, which are simply gorgeous. Le Scanff and Mayer have been photographing gardens for 20 years, and their work appears regularly in European gardening and food magazines. This beautiful book is recommended for public libraries and horticulture collections.?Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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In America and England, they are known as kitchen gardens. In France they are called potagers. But the difference lies in more than a name, Gertrude Stein notwithstanding. It's a matter of style, of transforming a utilitarian plot into a thing of beauty that will please the eye as well as fill the table. Jones, an expatriate Canadian who has lived and gardened in the south of France for 20 years, offers a charming glimpse into gardens both humble and grand in which common vegetables rub shoulders with flowers, fruit trees and herbs. Following the history of the potager from the self-sufficient medieval cloisters to today's seemingly haphazard melange, she details garden design and such structures as walls and fences and the various plants that bring it all to life. Appendixes note French gardens that welcome visitors and offer 80 recipes for classic French home-cooked dishes and seed sources for the American gardener. The text is embellished with 175 handsome color photographs of gardens and their fruits. BOMC selection.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Jones (Gardens of Provence, Abbeville, 1992) has been gardening in France since 1975. Here she presents the potager (the kitchen garden or vegetable plot) as an art form, with culinary use as a secondary consideration. Alluding to garden references by Colette, Henry James, Rousseau, and others, she discusses vegetable gardens in the dimensions of space and time. Jones explains that French gardens are enclosed by walls or hedges and lined with espaliered fruit trees or vines; pathways establish the outlines, with water and vertical features filling in. Appendixes give ideas for designing a potager, seed sources, public gardens, books consulted, and recipe suggestions. Equally important are the 175 full-color photographs, which are simply gorgeous. Le Scanff and Mayer have been photographing gardens for 20 years, and their work appears regularly in European gardening and food magazines. This beautiful book is recommended for public libraries and horticulture collections.?Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook by Jennifer Bartley in Back Matter
- Chef's Garden by Terence Conran on page 30
- The Art of the Kitchen Garden by Jan Gertley in Back Matter
- Edible French Garden (Edible Garden Series, 3) by Rosalind Creasy on page 14
- The New Traditional Garden : A Practical Guide to Creating and Restoring Authentic American Gardens for Homes of All Ages by Michael Weishan in Back Matter
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