Growing Pains - Time and Change in the Garden

I found this book on a remainder table, and I am so glad I did. It's the kind of book you can sit down and read from cover to cover. Unlike a lot of gardening books, it doesn't have a big list of plants, or a lot of detailed how-to's. Instead, it is a review of all that a gardener will have learned in their first 10 or so years of gardening, and of the state of their garden at the end of that time - what she calls the garden's "midlife crisis". She talks about how to learn from the successes and failures of the past, how to post-mortem a plant that has died, and how to take stock of your garden and decide where you want to go from here. This book has come to me at the perfect time. After 11 years in my garden I am in need of a look back, and a stock-taking. She is a conversational writer - easy to read, and very entertaining. I recommend this book for this winter's garden reading. It will give you inspiration for next year, and the years to come.

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