A Joy of Gardening

by Vita Sackville-West

Book Overview

Vita Sackville-West's charmingly written practical advice for gardeners selected from her immensely popular gardening column in The Observer newspaper.From the book: "The true gardener... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006013741X
• ISBN13: 9780060137410
• Release Date: May 1977
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Definitely - A Joy of Gardening

Vita Sackville-West remains one of the greatest garden writers and downright romantic when it comes to the garden. She always combined wit with realistic approaches. Her gardens at Sissinghurst and a write-up on her life and love of gardening in a magazine I read recently forced me to search fast and furiously for this particular book by Sackville-West. This book is very easy to read. A compilation of some of her London Observer weekly gardening articles (a columnist from 1947-1961), based on her experiences and life in the gardens she created at Sissinghurst Castle, her home. Useful tidbits, optimistic, romantic. A MUST for every gardener.