Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry 1994-99. In 2007, Fenton was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
<p>'A small book, yes, but how it grows in the mind after you put it down. It is a book about propagating plants from seeds, but it also a book about love, for when you love you start from scratch.'</p>
- Jamaica Kincaid,
<p>'The best book I’ve read in the past year ...It’s a beautiful clothbound book that’s a poetic exploration of seeds.'</p>
Financial Times
<p>‘Fenton’s list – a hundred seeds – is brisk and robust, but each of the varieties he selects takes on a delicate life of its own in the fertile topsoil of his poet’s imagination.’ </p>
- Tim Adams, Observer
Includes chapters on flowers for colour, size, or exotic interest; herbs and meadow flowers; climbing vines and tropical species; the micro-meadow; raising plants from seed; and a wealth of personal tips and advice. As Fenton writes, ‘the emphasis is on childish simplicity of approach, and economy of outlay.’
Here is a happy, stylish, thought-provoking exercise in good principles, which exudes that rare thing: common-or-garden sense about gardens.
Flowers and their Colours
Flowers for their Size
Flowers that Hop Around
Flowers for Cutting
The Perennial Prejudice
Useful and Decorative Herbs
The Micro-Meadow
The Poppy Festival
Climbers on Impulse
For the Tropical Look
As an Afterthought
The Rest of the Kit
When Raising Plants from Seed
The Seed List
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry 1994-99. In 2007, Fenton was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.