Modern Library Gardening Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, (Paperback)

from SeriousGrace

I need to prepare you. There is a lot of foreplay leading up to the main event that is Green Thoughts. There are 24 pages of other "stuff" to get through before you even see the first chapter, "Annuals": first you need to read the title page, the "Introduction to the modern library gardening seri...

from 2wonderY

Perényi wrote enough short essays on various garden topics that they were collected into a book and organized alphabetically, seeming to form an encyclopedia. But these are not fact filled articles; they are primarily opinion pieces, though not counter to the truth. For instance, she defies the g...

from OldRoses

(This review was originally written for The Garden Bloggers' Book Club) I was very happy when “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden” by Eleanor Perenyi was chosen for the Garden Bloggers' Book Club. I checked this book out of my local library about four years ago and liked it so much that I ad...

from gdemange

This is simply a delightful book written for the readers enjoyment rather than enlightenment. It consists of fifty, sixty or more essays on various subjects all having to do with some aspect of gardening. The chapters are all titled according to subject matter and in addition there is an excellen...

from OldRoses

(This review was originally written for The Garden Bloggers' Book Club) I was very happy when “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden” by Eleanor Perenyi was chosen for the Garden Bloggers' Book Club. I checked this book out of my local library about four years ago and liked it so much that I ad...