Through the Garden GateUniv of North Carolina Press, 9 lis 2000 - 270 Through the Garden Gate is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for The Charlotte Observer from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of gardening lore, horticultural expertise, and personal adventures, Lawrence inspired thousands of southern gardeners. "[A] fine contribution to the green-thumb genre.--Publishers Weekly |
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Strona vii
... winter day in De- cember 1974. It was not the sort of day to pick for a garden tour in North Carolina , even when the garden belongs to the author of a classic book entitled Gardens in Winter . Sky , air , and ground were wet and cold ...
... winter day in De- cember 1974. It was not the sort of day to pick for a garden tour in North Carolina , even when the garden belongs to the author of a classic book entitled Gardens in Winter . Sky , air , and ground were wet and cold ...
Strona viii
... winter buds . Such detail and close observation are the province of the expert gar- dener . I once carelessly expressed a lack of appreciation for Japanese maples . Elizabeth said , " Then you have never crawled beneath one in October ...
... winter buds . Such detail and close observation are the province of the expert gar- dener . I once carelessly expressed a lack of appreciation for Japanese maples . Elizabeth said , " Then you have never crawled beneath one in October ...
Strona ix
... Winter , in 1961. She had left her legendary Raleigh garden in 1950 and moved to Charlotte with her mother to live next to her sister , and just a few houses down from her good friend Elizabeth Clarkson and the beautiful bird sanctuary ...
... Winter , in 1961. She had left her legendary Raleigh garden in 1950 and moved to Charlotte with her mother to live next to her sister , and just a few houses down from her good friend Elizabeth Clarkson and the beautiful bird sanctuary ...
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... winter , " she says , “ scorns the sensuous lies of summer , " and Etches the finer skeleton For more perceptive eyes . Lovely as it all is from the window , it is even lovelier close at hand . Well wrapped , for it is impossible to ...
... winter , " she says , “ scorns the sensuous lies of summer , " and Etches the finer skeleton For more perceptive eyes . Lovely as it all is from the window , it is even lovelier close at hand . Well wrapped , for it is impossible to ...
Strona 4
... winter clematis . There were Chinese violets and white rain lilies , Elizabeth Clarkson's aster ( from Texas ) and her little pink wallflowers and a single spike of Alstroemeria pulchella , which has never before bloomed for me so late ...
... winter clematis . There were Chinese violets and white rain lilies , Elizabeth Clarkson's aster ( from Texas ) and her little pink wallflowers and a single spike of Alstroemeria pulchella , which has never before bloomed for me so late ...
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