in the garden ·
Katharine S. White reviews the “ever-spreading flood” of England’s books about gardens and horticulture, including a sixteenth-century manual of herbs and flowers and “Vita Sackville-West’s Garden Book.”
Katharine S. White
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onward and upward in the garden ·
Katharine S. White reviews a glut of garden books and how their pictures and illustrations shape our modern relationships with land.
onward and upward with the arts ·
Katharine S. White pays tribute to the English gardener Gertrude Jekyll, “the beautifier of England,” while seed shopping for the autumn season.
onward and upward in the garden ·
Katharine S. White on the high style of mid-century seed catalogues, from their hints of a gardener’s sass to rhapsodic descriptions of roses.