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The American Gardener: A Samplerby Allen LacyISBN 0374522170 (0-374-52217-0)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Farther Afield: A Gardener's Excursionsby Allen LacyISBN 0374520631 (0-374-52063-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Fragrant Pathby Allen LacyISBN 0020319916 (0-02-031991-6)
Hardcover, Collier Books, Macmillan Pub Co
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The Garden in Autumnby Allen LacyISBN 0805040676 (0-8050-4067-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Gardener's Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Thingsby Allen LacyISBN 0812968735 (0-8129-6873-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gardener's Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things'Book summary:First published in 1929, The Gardeners Bed-Book is a much beloved gardening classic by the renowned editor of House & Garden magazine in the 1920s and 30s. Each of its 365 perfectly sized little essays is meant to be read in bed at night after a long days work, either real or imagined, in the garden. A charming and mischievously funny companion to curl up with, Wright ranges comfortablyand lyricallyfrom giving gardening advice to meditating on such topics as antique collecting and travel, great literature and architecture. He is an addictive delight, as memorable describing the challenges of growing plume poppies as he is the simple pleasure of hanging up the dish towel once the housework is done. Written in language that is as timeless as it is seductive, The Gardeners Bed-Book will appeal to gardening experts and armchair enthusiasts alike.
This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Dominique Browning, the editor in chief of House & Garden and author of Around the House and in the Garden and the forthcoming Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener. [via]More editions of The Gardener's Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things:
The Gardener's Eyes and Other Essaysby Allen LacyISBN 080503952X (0-8050-3952-X)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Gardening With Groundcovers and Vinesby Allen Lacy , Cynthia WoodyardISBN 0060169133 (0-06-016913-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Green Thoughtsby Eleanor Perenyi, Allen LacyISBN 037575945X (0-375-75945-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Henry Mitchell on Gardeningby Henry Mitchell, Frances Tenenbaum, Allen LacyISBN 0395957672 (0-395-95767-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Home Ground: A Gardener's Miscellanyby Allen LacyISBN 0345322193 (0-345-32219-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home Ground: A Gardener's Miscellany'Book summary:Published to wide praise in 1984, this first collection of essays by one of the country's leading horticultural writers captures his thoughts "about some of the plants I have lived with and loved (and a few that I have disliked or that did not return my affections) over a lifetime of gardening." [via]
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Home Ground: A Gardener's Miscellany: ISBN 0374172544 (0-374-17254-4)
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In a Green Shade: Writings from Homegroundby Allen LacyISBN 0618003789 (0-618-00378-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In a Green Shade: Writings from Homeground'Book summary:Allen Lacy is a philosophy professor who loves plants--what a perfect combination for a garden essayist. Collected in this volume are selections from his quarterly newsletter, Homeground, which has delighted gardeners around the world for the last seven years. The newsletter is a rich tapestry of experience and opinion, of plants, weather, and musings on digging in the dirt. It is a joy to have in In a Green Shade a distillation of Lacy's knowledgeable prose, honed during his five years as garden columnist for The Wall Street Journal and seven years for The New York Times.
"Can there be a scintilla of doubt that the most mysteriously neglected plants in North America at the moment are the cape fuchsias?" asks Lacy, who then goes on to explain why we should all be growing at least several Phygelius cultivars. He describes how he planted an arbor to drip gourds through its crosspieces, and how the Aztecs domesticated dahlias from wildlings growing in the mountains of central Mexico. His interests are far-ranging, and he takes his readers along with him on an exploration of all things horticultural.
What makes this book especially useful is that it comes from Lacy's own firsthand gardening experience working in his small, suburban New Jersey garden. He is faced, like the rest of us, with unexpected storms, late freezes, and not enough space to indulge all his plant enthusiasms. The difference is that he is a fine writer who is able to transform his experiences into literature to amuse us when we brush the dirt off our hands and come in from the garden. --Valerie Easton [via]
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The Inviting Garden : Gardening for the Senses, Mind and Spiritby Allen Lacy , Cynthia WoodyardISBN 080503742X (0-8050-3742-X)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inviting Garden : Gardening for the Senses, Mind and Spirit'Book summary:In the grand scheme of things, a garden is a rather quotidian pleasure. Yet Allen Lacy finds a unique sensual delight in the very ordinariness of it: "It is sweet and pleasant to dig in the warm, slightly moist soil, to feel its grit and grain beneath the fingernails.... The rhythmic chore of pulling weeds soothes the soul like a mantra." The stimulation of the senses in the garden is a favorite theme that Lacy, the man who has been called "the dean of American gardeners," celebrates fully in The Inviting Garden, devoting a chapter to each. Lacy also proffers an affectionate look at gardening as an intellectual pleasure, with a longish but delightful discursion on botanical nomenclature, a slice of historical adventure in the story of how two rather different plants made their way from Asia to North America, a short but sweet chapter on the language of flowers, and the currently obligatory examination of the American suburban landscape. But it's in the chapters on gardening and the spirit that Lacy's charming circuitousness seems most at home: "Horticulture is sometimes described as a science, sometimes as an art, but the truth is that it is neither, although it partakes of both endeavors. It is more like falling in love, something that escapes all logic. There is a moment before one becomes a gardener, and a moment after--with a whole lifetime to keep on becoming a gardener." --Barrie Trinkle [via]
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Passalong Plantsby Allen Lacy , Cynthia WoodyardISBN 0807844187 (0-8078-4418-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Peace in War, a Novelby Allen Lacy , Cynthia WoodyardISBN 069109926X (0-691-09926-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A Year in Our Gardens: Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacyby Allen Lacy , Nancy GoodwinISBN 0807826030 (0-8078-2603-0)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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