A Gentle Plea For Chaos: Reflections From An English Garden

Author: Mirabel Osler

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Price : 24.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781408817896
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Weight (g) : 0.165
Publication date : 30 April 2011
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 24.99
Availability date : 30 June 2011
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Product Type : books

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Author : Mirabel Osler
Bind : Paperback
Edition : Re-issue
Pages : 192
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Description

In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life.

She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks.

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All consuming and witty look at one woman's garden

Awards

Mirabel Osler won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award.