A Joy of Gardening (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

By Vita Sackville-West

Book Overview

Vita Sackville-West's charmingly written practical advice for gardeners selected from her immensely popular gardening column in The Observer newspaper.

From the book:

"The true gardener must be brutal, and imaginative for the future."

"The behavior of plants is indeed inexplicable. It breaks all the rules; and that is what makes gardening so endlessly various and interesting."

"I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all."

"Naturally, every garden must be a law to itself."

"You cannot expect your soil and your plants to go on giving you of their best if you are not prepared to give something back in return. This is as true of gardens as of human relationships."

"The only thing is to be bold; try the experiment; find out."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1959891871
• ISBN13: 9781959891871
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Warbler Classics
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Definitely - A Joy of Gardening

Vita Sackville-West remains one of the greatest garden writers and downright romantic when it comes to the garden. She always combined wit with realistic approaches. Her gardens at Sissinghurst and a write-up on her life and love of gardening in a magazine I read recently forced me to search fast and furiously for this particular book by Sackville-West. This book is very easy to read. A compilation of some of her London Observer weekly gardening articles (a columnist from 1947-1961), based on her experiences and life in the gardens she created at Sissinghurst Castle, her home. Useful tidbits, optimistic, romantic. A MUST for every gardener.