![]() ![]() I thought England was bursting with lovely gardens. “The London garden must be revolting, essentially because the cultural conditions are so very unfavourable to plant life that only the dreariest of plants will make do with them…” Here is just how and why London gardens are revolting. “How cheering the thud of the seed catalogues on the doormat! Now all that you have wanted to know about growing spherical carrots, grey beetroot, turrets of indestructible lettuce that even snails won’t eat!” Believe it, she brings a unique twist to garden writing. Her surprising love of gardening is put forth in this little volume. Greer is a 1970s feminist, famous for her book, The Female Eunuch. Looking for a winter read, I came upon The Revolting Garden by Rose Blight, a.k.a. ![]() ‘PLEASE DON’T THROW THE LIDS ON THE GARDEN’ is lost among the other graffiti.” “How pleasant the lot of the gardener in these winter months! He whiles away the short days and long evenings, devising stratagems whereby he can trick the garbage man into using the path instead of tramping across the tulip and iris shoots to collect the plastic bag thrown to him by his colleague, knocking the buds off the Magnolia stellate as he hoists it onto his shoulder and demolishing the one fat red shoot which contains all that Paeonia mlokseiwitchi would have given this spring. ![]()
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