Description
Book SynopsisIn this light-hearted book, poet and gardener James Fenton describes a hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed. ‘It seemed a simple and interesting idea: what plants would you choose if starting a garden from scratch?’
Includes chapters on flowers for colour, size, or exotic interest; herbs and meadow flowers; climbing vines and tropical species; the micro-meadow; raising plants from seed; and a wealth of personal tips and advice. As Fenton writes, ‘the emphasis is on childish simplicity of approach, and economy of outlay.’
Here is a happy, stylish, thought-provoking exercise in good principles, which exudes that rare thing: common-or-garden sense about gardens.
Trade Review‘A small book, yes, but how it grows in the mind after you put it down. It is a book about propagating plants from seeds, but it also a book about love, for when you love you start from scratch.’ – Jamaica Kincaid
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Flowers and their Colours
Flowers for their Size
Flowers that Hop Around
Flowers for Cutting
The Perennial Prejudice
Useful and Decorative Herbs
The Micro-Meadow
The Poppy Festival
Climbers on Impulse
For the Tropical Look
As an Afterthought
The Rest of the Kit
When Raising Plants from Seed
The Seed List
