Helen Rock's Irish Gardening
Rock, Helen
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Description:Helen Rock, whose column in The Sunday Tribune features the finest garden
writing to be found in Ireland, has gathered and adapted the best of those
essays into a volume that will immediately establish itself as the Irish
gardener's most useful, and readable, companion.
The book is divided into four sections: 'Plant Profiles', 'Design & amp;
Tactics', 'Gardens Great and Small' and 'The Gardener's Calendar'. Whether
rhapsodizing about the qualities of borage or lemon trees, describing the
great gardens at Ardgillan Castle and Strokestown, explaining how to plant
a potager or a hedgerow, or painting a picture of the Irish garden in
mid-October, Helen Rock conveys the artistry and drama of gardening while
never lapsing, as many garden writers do, into fantasy, or forgetting that
most gardeners are interested in practical advice above all else. This
Helen Rock supplies in abundance, in graceful, witty prose that makes this
a book gardeners will bring out into the garden with them, and then bring
to bed at night. Illustrated with nineteenth-century engravings and fully
indexed.
THE AUTHOR
Helen Rock was born in Dublin. She has been a writer and journalist for
over twenty years. Her gardening column has appeared in The Sunday Tribune
since 1995. She also writes regularly for The Irish Garden and other
periodicals.
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