Great Gardening a Thoughtful Book of the Month Title

Thoughtful Gardening: Great Plants, Great Gardens, Great Gardeners by Robin Lane Fox

What to Expect in the Book of the Month

• As you would expect from a Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College Oxford there are grand opinions and insights.
• As Garden Master of the college gardens the practical nature of the author lends the book to problems with badgers, to how to take root-cuttings or choose flowering trees. (A bit grand for my taste).
• Thoughtful Gardening ‘combines a principled view of the craft of gardening with dozens of new ideas for planting and visiting, and touching reminders of the power of literature and art to deepen what we see and realize in gardens of our own’ according to the blurb.

Who Wants to Read ‘ Thoughtful Gardening ‘

• Robin Lane Fox has written a weekly gardening column in the Financial Times since 1970. He has many followers who will be interested in this book his third gardening book but first for many years.
• The book is fine for dipping into and need not be read as one work.
• One reviewer says the book is suitable for the traveler who expects to visit or know about gardens in other countries
• ‘Thoughtful Gardening: Great Plants, Great Gardens, Great Gardeners’ to give the book it’s full title probably sums up the target audience as having great expectations.

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Quick Thoughts of the Month

• It looks like the Greats are what to read in Oxford. Sadly this is not one of my classics.
• ‘Thoughtful Gardening: Great Plants, Great Gardens, Great Gardeners’ contains 368 pages for £12.99. This and 40 years of learnered experience probably make this book good value.

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