Farther Afield: A Gardener's ExcursionsIn this splendid collection of short essays, gardener, writer, and professor Allen Lacy takes readers on a series of garden excursions, beginning at home. Lacy writes of his experiences with a variety of plants--evening primrose, prairie gentian, sumac, coreopsis, fuchsias, gloriosa lilies--in his own garden in New Jersey. Then he charts his travels to other gardens, in the United States, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands. Final essays in Farther Afield include a discussion of garden writing, profiles of other horticulturists, and humorous pieces on cats and houseplants, and, of course, flamingoes. |
Contents
1 | 37 |
Coreopsis | 62 |
NotSoBouncing Bet | 81 |
Summer Bulbs | 94 |
Mr Shaws Garden | 115 |
Ted Childss Hillside Marvel | 136 |
Nine Million Flowers under One Roof | 150 |
TIDBITS AND OBSERVATIONS | 195 |
The Wild Cyclamens of Montrose | 241 |