Title: One writer's garden : Eudora Welty's home place /
Authors: Haltom, Susan; Brown, Jane Roy.; Clay, Langdon, 1949-
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Welty, Eudora, Homes and haunts Mississippi Jackson.; Authors, American Homes and haunts Mississippi Jackson.; Gardens, American Mississippi Jackson History; Gardens Conservation and restoration Mississippi Jackson.
Abstract: By the time she reached her late twenties, Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was launching a distinguished literary career. She was also becoming a capable gardener under the tutelage of her mother, Chestina Welty, who designed their modest garden in Jackson, Mississippi. From the beginning, Eudora wove images of southern flora and gardens into her writing, yet few outside her personal circle knew that the images were drawn directly from her passionate connection to and abiding knowledge of her own garden.
Contents: Spring, 1920s. Chestina -- "When the garden was new" -- Progressive women and their roots in gardening -- Summer, 1930s. "Meeting death head on" -- "Medicine to the soul" -- "You and me, here" -- Fall, 1940s. "The subject was flowers" -- "In the fall I will miss you then" -- "Flowers are older than war" -- "Happy and thankful for much" -- Winter, postwar and beyond. "Not a garden any more, but what it is" -- "It would be like hell to do" -- Appendix I: Decades of Welty plants -- Appendix II: Oringinal plant list for 1119 Pinehurst Street -- Appendix III: Annuals in the Welty garden -- Appendix IV: Roses in the Welty garden -- Appendix V: Partial list of plants in Welty prose -- Appendix VI: Resources for historic landscape preservation -- Appendix VII: Discussion questions for book clubs.