Re: Bella Tuscany

Thanks Cali,
    For your recomendation of the new Frances Mayes book. (I love rigid and geometric!) I'm ordering it and looking forward to a better book. I found I lost interest in the first one about 2/3s of the way through. Perhaps if I'd been familiar with the ancient Etruscian sites she visited, it would have meant more to me.

    I was delighted with the description of your garden on Corfu in the July, 2000 edition of "The Mediterranean Garden". I wished it was more complete. Even though you've given a little taste of it on the "Lavender list", I hope you have the time to give us all a better "walk through". I'm particularly intrigued by your Cycladic chair, "looking out to sea over a broad meadow". Please tell us all about it.
Jan Smithen

Cali Doxiadis wrote:

Hello everyone--
--I just finished reading Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes and enjoyed it even more than the first one; it's more thoughtful and more poetic.  There is a chapter about planning her garden after researching classic Italian garden-design (which I'd always dismissed as too rigid and geometrical for my taste) which I found particularly thought-provoking.  I think that as well as other parts of the book might be of particular interest to listers.
Cali Doxiadis

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