Essays extol the seasons, gardens, and the natural world, and include observations and advice on gardening

The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

MITCHELL, HENRY

Mitchel

Gardening & Landscape Design

Indiana University Press

History

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

For twenty years, Henry Mitchell has been delighting readers of the Washington Post with his wide-ranging adventures in his small city garden. The best of his columns, collected here, reflect an uncommon zest for gardening, along with more good advice than you can find in a dozen how-to books. In fact, as he says, "If gardeners spent less time running about doing things they think they are supposed to do and more time contemplating the beauty of the world's plants, they'd get more out of their gardens and be less of a pest to the civilized world." Whether he is being serious ("Tea Roses: The Secrets of Success") or hilarious ("Before You Bring In the Plants, Make Sure Your Rugs Are Clean"), Mitchell deftly deals with the likely and unlikely decisions a gardener is called upon to make every day. While rationing a precious Christmas gift of fertilizer, he observes that horse manure, like youth, goes all too quickly. "When you first start to garden," he writes, "you usually have no idea what the real delights are going to be." Henry Mitchell shares both his delights and his agonies, whether he is happily hoarding pickle jars for growing seedlings or agitating over which plants to uproot and toss out of his garden.

One Man's Garden

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Long out of print, to the dismay of Mitchell's new and old fans, the book the New York Times called "the most soul-satisfying gardening book in years" is at last reissued. Although Mitchell offers invaluable tips for novices and seasoned gardeners, readers take particular delight in his opinionated observations--witty, urbane, and fascinating.

The Essential Earthman

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

Henry Mitchell On Gardening

A collection of columns by a man considered by many to be the best American garden writer includes a wealth of practical information about vegetable and flower gardens, as well as reflections on how gardens feed the human soul. 10,000 first printing.

Henry Mitchell on Gardening

Chapters Pub Ltd

For readers who like gardening (and love the English language), this posthumous collection of Henry Mitchell's Washington Post "Earthman" columns is "equal parts entertainment and shrewd horticultural advice" (Science News). Henry Mitchell is "beloved for his witty, smart, informed, philosophical, wide-ranging and often wickedly humorous columns" (Detroit Free Press).

Harvest

Mariner Books

In the sequel to The Essential Earthman, the Washington Post columnist offers a harvest of sharp observations and humorous adventures gathered during a year in his garden, along with much down-to-earth advice on horticulture.

Washington: Houses of the Capital by Mitchell, Henry

Washington: Houses of the Capital

Arts & Photography

VIDAL,GORE

Architecture

Studio

The Coast Of Egypt And The Suez Canal (1869)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

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