Really enjoyed this little garden memoir. Brought back a lot of memories of all my first gardening attempts in different parts of the country (and world), only to learn that all those little tries were simply a warm-up for my own garden: the one I made (and continue to build on) in - what I consider - the first house I truly owned (and that truly owned me).
Ms. Stewart has a wonderful sense of humor, and a terrific eye for describing the absurdities that working in the sun and rain and soil brings to every true gardener (new, or not). But she just barely touches on the painful, heart-wrench that will come when I have to leave this (always) work-in-progress to someone else; someone else who will have to learn where the one special yellow columbine comes up (and has come up for the past almost 17 years); the one that's survived being pulled and broken off at the crown by various unseeing and uncaring so-called professional gardeners. (And there are so many more of those survivors in my garden.)
Leaving friends all over the United States (and the world) has been hard beyond belief over the past fifty-some years. But abandoning my garden - handing it over to someone who will have no idea what that rose I planted next to the garage door means to me, and meant to my mother... that's almost unfathomable pain.
I also know that very soon I'll need to begin my letter to the new caretaker of my 100 year old house and garden and hope that they'll care about it enough to see it through all four seasons before making any drastic changes. I pray they'll love the centurion cherry tree that's part of this garden's history as much as I do, crazy big roots and all.
So, thanks Amy for this terrific little book. I wish it had been longer. I grew up in Monterey and went to UCSC for a while so felt right at home in her garden.
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