Property News · July 20, 2016

Top 10 books about gardens


From theatres of social snobbery to fiery manifestos for rewilding, these volumes show that gardening can be sexy, scary and sometimes scandalousThe problem with most garden books is that they are written by gardeners. Gardeners have a habit of filling pages and pages with homework-sounding words such as rhizosphere and loamy and pH, which isn’t even a word. It all sounds as exciting as algebra.The other problem with garden books is that so many of them blabber on about an idea of nature that came into fashion in the time of hoop skirts and whalebone corsets. I’m talking about the ideology of the famed 19th-century conservationist John Muir, who wrote about wilderness as a place “to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the soul”. I want to read about this fey “sacred space” concept of nature about as much as I want to slap on a lace bonnet and ride side-saddle. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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