A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season

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From the Publisher

By becoming a gardener, I accidentally—blessedly—landed myself in a fusion of science lab and Buddhist retreat, a place of nonstop learning and of contemplation, where there is life buzzing to the maximum and also the deepest stillness. It is from this combined chemistry that my horticultural how-to and ‘woo-woo’ motto derives.

On the second half of that equation, I think of my garden and myself as the two main components of the same organism. That perspective makes me think about the gardening year as roughly parallel to the six seasons of my own life, from conception through birth and on to youth, adulthood, senescence, and finally death and afterlife. Moving from phase to phase takes months or years (if all goes well) in the case of a human; in the garden, it’s all packed into a single year, and then starts over, and over, even long after the gardener is gone.

—Margaret Roach

This must-have guide shares decades of garden knowledge

Gardening with ornamental plants

Growing vegetables and fruit

Designing for four seasons

Attracting birds and beneficial insects

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Timber Press (April 30, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1604698772
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1604698770
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.31 x 0.94 x 10.31 inches