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From the publisher

"An engaging mix of the serious and the playful, and Fenton writes with a lightness of touch perfectly suited to the subject." --Alexander Urquhart, The Times Literary Supplement

Forget structure. Forget trees, shrubs, and perennials. As James Fenton writes, "This is not a book about huge projects. It is about thinking your way toward the essential flower garden, by the most traditional of routes: planting some seeds and seeing how they grow."

In this light hearted, instructive, original "game of lists," Fenton selects one hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed. Flowers for color, size, and exotic interest; herbs and meadow flowers; climbing vines, tropical species--Fenton describes readily available varieties, and tells how to acquire and grow them.

Here is a happy, stylish, unpretentious, and thought-provoking gardening book that will beguile and inspire both novice and expert alike.

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FIRST AND FOREMOST, flowers attract us by their colors.

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  • Title A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed
  • Author James Fenton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 125
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-04-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780374528775 / 0374528772
  • Weight 0.24 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.54 x 5.12 x 0.41 in (19.15 x 13.00 x 1.04 cm)
  • Category Gardening / Horticulture
  • Library of Congress subjects Gardens, Gardening
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001054452
  • Dewey Decimal Code 635.9

About the author

James Fenton is a poet, critic, and gardener. From 1994 to 1999 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, where he has created a noted garden. He writes about poetry, art history, and gardening for the New York Review of Books.

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