A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed

James Fenton author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Notting Hill Editions

Published:23rd Jul '20

Should be back in stock very soon

A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed cover

In 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.

‘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

ISBN: 9781912559282

Dimensions: 190mm x 120mm x 150mm

Weight: 250g

96 pages