Re: a good book/ Mirabel Osler

Hello Claire,
    While reading Mirabel you may want to look about for her book "In the
Eye of the Garden". It is definitely what is known as a "small book" but
truly an enjoyable read. She has nudged me into thinking about several areas
of garden that I did not pay much attention to before reading her words.
    There are times when I pay attention to your messages for they have a
ring similar to Mirabel's.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana
----- Original Message -----
> Sometime ago a writer named Mirable Osler wrote a book entitled "A Gentle
> Plea for Chaos".  This is illustrated by her, then, husband and is
entirely
> written about their own garden.  Ms. Osler is a writer first, then a
gardener
> so the prose is very good.
> The book tells the story of two people, an old property and contains pages
> and pages of non-traditional opinion.  I read it years ago and re-read
> chapters many times since.  This is easily found on half.com or any used
book
> site.  The last line in the book tells that Michael Osler died before the
> book publication date.
>
> Ms. Osler then went to France and wrote some more things but never one I
> found good reading until "A Breath From Elsewhere".
>
> "A Breath From Elsewhere" is Ms. Osler now in a new home of her own and
> garden made on her own and still the writer first, outrageous opinion on
all
> sorts garden traditions.  She is say this is her last garden and she will
> have it as she wishes and goes to explain why that is a very reasoning.
>
> At the end of a long dry summer, this is good reading, actually wonderful
> reading  from a skilled writer who treats her garden very seriously. She
has
> great loves and things she hates, she says all the things you would like
to
> say but fear being drummed out of the gardening clan.
>
> "If you have never gardened before, take heart.  There is such a wide
> spectrum of horticultural temptations available that you are sure to get
it
> wrong".
>
> This is one quote, many more are such fun to read.  A gardener who is
> enjoying the garden.  Remembering the discussion on orange flowers, here,
Ms.
> Osler would be right at home.  The second book is now remaindered on
Hamilton
> for 3.98.  There is good discussion on getting rid of grass, a surprising
> chapter on why you should not smoke or more particularly smoke in her
garden.
>  Expect really good observation, this writer has lived is several
countries
> and now is back in the UK.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4

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