Gardening from the Heart: Why Gardeners Garden - Softcover

Olwell, Carol

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9780917946059: Gardening from the Heart: Why Gardeners Garden

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ISBN 10: 0917946057 ISBN 13: 9780917946059

Publisher: Antelope Island Pr, 1990

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Quarto, 1990, PP.238, Interviews With 21 Gardeners Exploring Why The Garden

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From Publishers Weekly:

Why do gardeners do it? "I was gardening, in part, to maintain my mental health; it was better than going to a psychiatrist." "A lot of people like murder mysteries. I have the same feeling, only I like to unravel the mysteries of plants." "I get a sense that I'm part of an ecosystem." "The garden was home." From a market gardener to a university-trained plant geneticist, 21 plantsmen and women from the Western U.S. here explain the rhyme and reason of their enthusiasm in their own words. Introduced by Olwell ( Women of the West ), who also photographed each garden with zest and care, this appealing collection of oral histories should be enjoyed far and wide, inviting readers to discover that gardeners with grit can do their work nearly anywhere--in the Alaskan wilderness, the Utah desert or the San Francisco County Jail. What's needed, as Olwell makes clear, is persistence: one interviewee, a self-described "terminal case," moved over 75 tons of rock in order to create a San Francisco oasis. Less a how-to than a why-to, Olwell's opus informs and inspires.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Olwell traveled around the western United States interviewing gardeners and photographing them and their gardens; the results are organized in this remarkable book. Olwell explores the diverse lives of these people and the myriad ways in which they have been affected by their interactions with plants. This celebration of gardening--from the deserts of the Southwest to Alaska, from highway landscaper to prison horticultural manager, from fruit tree specialist to garden artist--is a fascinating trip through experiences and emotions. Recommended for larger gardening collections.
- Annette Aiello, Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst., Panama
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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