Dig: Modern Seasonal GardeningAllen & Unwin, 2003 A rich source of innovation and inspiration, season by season, this book is packed full of down-to-earth advice and in-depth horticultural information, as well as fresh ideas and exciting new approaches to all aspects of cultivation and design, for both the novice and the experienced gardener. |
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grasses ground covers | 58 |
potted grass garden | 66 |
contents | 227 |
overview of the season | 236 |
Weeds | 242 |
bamboo trellis | 333 |
Bulbs | 342 |
grasses ground covers | 430 |
Ground covers | 436 |
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Strana 234 - Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun, And with him rises weeping...
Strana 150 - SUMMER set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine...
Strana 168 - The Hill: Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass, You said, "Through glory and ecstasy we pass; Wind, sun, and earth remain, the birds sing still, When we are old, are old. . . ." "And when we die All's over that is ours; and life burns on Through other lovers, other lips," said I, — "Heart of my heart, our heaven is now, is won!
Strana 229 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Strana 78 - From morn to evening dews. He told of the magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over-head ! The cypress and her spire, — Of flowers that, with one scarlet gleam, Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire.
Strana 14 - To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life — this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
Strana 32 - People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time, to have such things about us.
Strana 40 - Each cottage-garden's fond adopted child, Though heaths still claim them, where they yet grow wild...