num_pages: 397
description: Any garden belongs to everyone who sees it  it is like a book and everybody who visits it will find different things.Marc Hamer has designed and nurtured 12 acres of garden for over two decades. It is rarely visited so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets; but it is not his own. His relationship with the gardens owner is both distant and curiously intimate steeped in the mysterious connection which exists between two people who inhabit the same space in very different ways.In this life-enhancing book Marc takes us month-by-month through his experiences both working in the garden and outside it as the seasons changes bring new plants and wildlife to the fore and lead him to reflect on his past and future. Through his peaceful and meditative prose we learn about gardening folklore and wisdom the joys of manual labour his path from solitary homelessness to family contentment and the cycle of growth and decay that runs through both the gardens life and our own.Beautifully illustrated Seed to Dust is a moving and restorative account of a life lived in harmony with nature.Youve seen gates like that at the side of the road youve wondered whats behind them. They really are the entrance to the wonders you imagined.
language: English
title: Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story
publisher: Harvill Secker