I’m thrilled to be exposed to this gardener and his book! As someone who walks every day and enjoys gardens as I do so and has also spent the last 6 years pushing a pram and at parks with Iris, it all rings true! My favourite quote is his comment about the gardens in Japan and the cultivation of them over time, a community of people caring. I will protest slightly at his dismissal of the real pain at what the people who took over your garden have done. We have moved 28 times and recently I went back to look at my last house. They had ripped out all the iris and bulbs and my sweet peas with their special metal supports were gone. But as he rightly pointed out, the shrubs and trees were still there and the blackbirds and wrens. So I’m not so necessary after all. I’m off to buy a copy. Oh Julie, your posts are so good, so informative and intriguing and joyful. Thank you!
Oh and I forgot to add that his love of geraniums/pelargoniums means he is automatically a good man in my book…ha ha, you will understand.
Indeed! :)
I’m thrilled to be exposed to this gardener and his book! As someone who walks every day and enjoys gardens as I do so and has also spent the last 6 years pushing a pram and at parks with Iris, it all rings true! My favourite quote is his comment about the gardens in Japan and the cultivation of them over time, a community of people caring. I will protest slightly at his dismissal of the real pain at what the people who took over your garden have done. We have moved 28 times and recently I went back to look at my last house. They had ripped out all the iris and bulbs and my sweet peas with their special metal supports were gone. But as he rightly pointed out, the shrubs and trees were still there and the blackbirds and wrens. So I’m not so necessary after all. I’m off to buy a copy. Oh Julie, your posts are so good, so informative and intriguing and joyful. Thank you!