In the Eye of the Garden brings the author's lyric gift to the topic of gardening. Osler looks at her own horticultural stirrings and shares her musings about human life in the garden, touching on a diverse but seductive selection of subjects. 85 woodcuts.

In the Eye of the Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Osler, Mirabel

Gardening & Landscape Design

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Contains round-the-year thoughts, meditations and memoirs of an exceptionally creative gardener. Personally reflecting on the strong and mysterious power that the garden exerts over the gardener, the author's thoughts take her through the four seasons. She muses on whatever subject her garden puts into her head, and she ranges widely - from gooseflesh to bushfires, from archaeology to whales.

J.M.Dent.

The Elusive Truffle: Travels in Search of the Legendary Food of France

Travel

Europe

Black Swan.

The prize-winning garden writer advocates pleasant disorder in this personal and witty celebration of the garden

A Gentle Plea for Chaos: The Enchantment of Gardening

Simon&Schuster

Photographs show examples of many varieties of benches and provide inspiration for design ideas as well as invaluable references

The Garden Bench (LIBRARY OF GARDEN DETAIL)

Shows and describes a variety of garden walls and tells how to incorporate them into the overall design of a garden

The Garden Wall (LIBRARY OF GARDEN DETAIL)

Mirabel Osler, author of A Gentle Plea for Chaos, has written an enchanting account of her travels through the French countryside to find some of the loveliest gardens of France. Curious about the reputed emphasis on order and symmetry - of the sort we see at Versailles and in the well-mannered formal kitchen garden - and, accompanied by her daughter and granddaughter, she set out to discover the hidden gardens of France. Far from the parterres and broderie of French public parks are the gardens the French make for themselves, in astonishing variety and with the Gallic passion for individuality. Mrs. Osler has said that ". . . gardens are the one area available to each of us in which to create our own personal visions of paradise . . ." Without this unusual look at private, extraordinary gardens throughout France, these visions of paradise could not be enjoyed by any but their owners. The Secret Gardens of France leads us into an exuberant garden for the five senses, planted with cherished specimens from five continents. Here are an unharnessed "wild" garden, a romantic island garden, a rose garden boasting more than 300 varieties, and a small, exquisite fragrance garden created by a gardener with a brilliant "nose." The gardeners we meet on this countrywide journey are spirited, philosophic, irrepressible, stubborn, optimistic, conservative, boisterous . . . in short, like gardeners everywhere, they defy generalization. To the author's delight, many of them are bubbling with a joyous sensibility quite different from the horticultural solemnity so often encountered today. From the 84-year-old marquise, who lovingly tends her vegetable garden on the shore of Lake Geneva, to the pair of septuagenarian brothers, who've replaced gorse and bramble with rare and exotic plants at their island fort, these gardeners - and their gardens - have irresistible stories to tell.

The Secret Gardens of France

Macmillan General* Reference

In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award.

A Gentle Plea for Chaos: Reflections from an English Garden

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

A Breath from Elsewhere - A Garden for Life

Bloomsbury Publishing, Limited

A Breath from Elsewhere: Musings on Gardens

BLOOMSBURY

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In the Eye of the Garden

In the Eye of the Garden

The Elusive Truffle: Travels in Search of the Legendary Food of France

A Gentle Plea for Chaos: The Enchantment of Gardening

The Garden Bench (LIBRARY OF GARDEN DETAIL)

The Garden Wall (LIBRARY OF GARDEN DETAIL)

The Secret Gardens of France

A Gentle Plea for Chaos: Reflections from an English Garden

A Breath from Elsewhere - A Garden for Life

A Breath from Elsewhere: Musings on Gardens