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  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    @philippasmith2 I’ve just checked the foreword and yes Anna Pavord is gardening correspondent for the Independent.  Definitely give Katherine Swift’s the Morville Hours a go if you like that sort of thing (you can get 2nd hand copies cheaply on A******n).  It was a book that I felt like there was something missing in my life when I finished it …..but luckily there’s a sequel 😝
  • @chicky Thanks - I'll have a look for that.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Anna Pavord - she's a tulip expert if I'm not mistaken? I'm sure I have one of her books somewhere. Possibly the tulip one  ;)
    Haven't looked at it in ages. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    @Fairygirl - yes, her most famous book is about tulips (mostly tulip mania I believe) but I haven’t read that one.  The curious gardener is a month by month ramble through what she does in the garden - with quite a bit of tangential rambling.  But it’s the tangential rambling that gives it its charm 😀
  • I really don’t have a problem with products being offered for sake at a time when most are likely to be sold … chocolate eggs in the run up to Easter; windscreen de-icer  as frosts are expected,  school uniforms in the summer holidays etc. 
    It’s not just the writers who need to make a living, it’s the publishers, wholesalers and bookshops and their many employees. 
    It’s a bit like garden centres stocking up with tools, seeds and composts in time for spring. They sell more at that time of year than they would in August 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2021
    😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ve only ever read one book by Monty Don, The jewel Garden. I loved it. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think I had it [The Tulip] at one point, but I had quite a lot of books at one point that I no longer have. I probably got it when I was studying. 
    I've just had a look, and found a gem that was my daughter's favourite 'bedtime book'. Geoff Hamilton's The Living Garden.  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    🤣🤣🤣.  Has she blossomed into a gardener yet ????
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    No.  :D
    It was all the insects etc she loved. She knew every page... ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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