Re: a good book/ Mirabel Osler
- Subject: Re: a good book/ Mirabel Osler
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:59:06 EDT
In a message dated 8/20/02 4:31:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
genebush@otherside.com writes:
<< 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. >>
I am going to guess that Gene has all these books and I found I own "In the
Eye of the Garden" and have not got around to reading it.
So if Gene says it is a good book, put it on the list. Ms. Osler is fun to
read. August heat and drought and something about the end of season does not
make for enthused gardening.
In one chapter, Mirabel talks about painting various things in her garden,
trying out colors. The paint left, she says, goes on the downstairs lavatory
walls, all these trials which she described as probably someone else's
migraine. She would be a great neighbor to have over the garden fence. All
this not frivolous, she is a serious gardener. Just "different".
If you live in New England and are around the I-95 one day, there is the
biggest bookstore in the world (I think) in Newton, Mass. The New England
Mobile Bookstore. There are rooms full of bargain books there for the garden
as well as all the new ones. Bring a chair, it is an all day job.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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