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Mother Earth’s Garden

December 16th, 2006

How I became a gardener

How does one become a gardener? I should say at the outset that although I harbor a strong and mostly secret belief that gardening is what life is really all about, I am not a real gardener. I cannot tell you the common names of many plants, let alone their botanical names. My garden is […]

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December 12th, 2006

Peter Timms - good books

Just a quick post to recommend two books by Peter Timms, a wise and wonderful gardener who writes lovely witty prose. He now lives in Tasmania, but used to live in Victoria, where he wreote his first gardening book “Making Nature”. You can read an extract here (http://www.austlit.com/chapters/timms-origins.html)
The book that has prompted me to write […]

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