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Written by Colette, Gertrude Jekyll, Andrew Marvell, Henry Mitchell, Nancy Mitford, Beverly Nichols, Eleanor Perenyi, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Wharton, E.B. White, Louise Beebe Wilder and many others - Performed by Jane Garmey - Unabridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, Highbridge Audio (January 1997)

Publishers Weekly says:
Winner of the Listen Up Award for Best Essays of 1996. This is an example of how a collection of writings may be assembled and packaged as a lively production for audio [brought to you by HighBridge Audio]. The excerpts cut across history and draw from fiction, journalism, poetry, letters and diaristic writings. A host of professional-quality narrators are employed, interspersed with each other to create variety and ad-hoc rhythm. The common theme is the universality of gardening. The collected authors prove by personal example that it's an activity that marks time and provides a rich foundation of metaphors for life's peaceful or troublesome moments. Gardening is upheld as a protracted form of self-portraiture. (January 6, 1996 )

Over the centuries, gardens and gardening have proved a fertile source of inspiration for writers and poets alike. Here is a wonderfully engaging selection of garden writing culled from essays, fiction, poetry, journalism, diaries, and letters. It all adds up to a glorious compendium of writing that is amusing, original, and idiosyncratic. Excerpts span not only the beauties of the garden but such far-reaching topics as weeds, the tribulations of gardening in a cold climate, the dangers of rare plant collecting, the delights of weeding, the pitfalls of growing roses, and the place of "tacky" in a garden.

With selections carefully chosen from both sides of the Atlantic, this anthology pays homage to the great garden writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries while, at the same time, introducing the listener to some of the most original voices of today's generation of garden writers.

Books on gardening have become a marketing phenomenon. However, this is the first time an anthology of garden writing has appeared on audio. Impeccably read by a group of professional actors, this potpourri of philosophical meanderings, passionate observations, and practical advice is essential listening for all gardeners and garden lovers.