A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed

Professor James Fenton

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English

Farrar Straus Giroux
20 April 2005

Gardening; Garden design & planning; Gardening: plants; Gardening: flowers

An engaging mix of the serious and the playful, and Fenton writes with a lightness of touch perfectly suited to the subject. --Alexander Urquhart, The Times Literary Supplement

Forget structure. Forget trees, shrubs, and perennials. As James Fenton writes, This is not a book about huge projects. It is about thinking your way toward the essential flower garden, by the most traditional of routes: planting some seeds and seeing how they grow.

In this light hearted, instructive, original game of lists, Fenton selects one hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed. Flowers for color, size, and exotic interest; herbs and meadow flowers; climbing vines, tropical species--Fenton describes readily available varieties, and tells how to acquire and grow them.

Here is a happy, stylish, unpretentious, and thought-provoking gardening book that will beguile and inspire both novice and expert alike.

By: Professor James Fenton
Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 192mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 109g
ISBN: 9780374528775
ISBN 10: 0374528772
Pages: 125
Publication Date: 20 April 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Fenton is a poet, critic, and gardener. From 1994 to 1999 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, where he has created a noted garden. He writes about poetry, art history, and gardening for the New York Review of Books.

Reviews for A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed

Blatantly flouting current gardening convention, Fenton eschews the tedium of planning a plot's bones, or layout, in favor of growing flowers that simply appeal to one for their own sake. --Kirkus Reviews