Down the Garden Path
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Published: December 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780881927108
Subjects: Gardens (descriptions, history etc); Homes and haunts; England; Biography; Gardening; Gardening / Horticulture; Gardening/Plants; Essays; GARDENS; Gardening / Essays; Gardening / General; Authors, English; Nichols, Beverley,; 1899-; 20th century; Cambridgeshire; Cambridgeshire (England)
First sentence: I BOUGHT my cottage by sending a wireless to Timbuctoo from the Mauretania, at midnight, with a fierce storm lashing the decks.
Description: "Down the Garden Path has stood the test of time as one of the world's best-loved and most-quoted gardening books. Ostensibly an account of the creation of a garden in Huntingdonshire in the 1930s, it is really about the underlying emotions and obsessions for which gardening is just a cover story. The secret of this book's success - and its timelessness - is that it does not seek to impress the reader with a wealth of expert knowledge or advice." "As unforgettable as the plants in the garden is the cast of visitors and neighbors who invariably turn up at inopportune moments. For every angelic Miss Hazlitt there is an insufferable Miss Wilkins waiting in the wings. For every thought-provoking Professor, there is an intrusive Miss M, whose chief offense may be that she is a "damnably efficient" gardener. From a disaster building a rock garden, to further adventures with greenhouses, woodland gardens, not to mention cats and treacle, Nichols has left us a true gardening classic." --Book Jacket.