My Garden (Book)

My Garden (Book) - Paperback

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My Garden (Book) - Paperback

My Garden (Book) - Paperback

by Jamaica Kincaid
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by Jamaica Kincaid (Author)

Jamaica Kincaid invites us into her garden in this "irresistible stream of horticultural consciousness" (Michael Pollan).

Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a square plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced gardener friends, she planted only seeds of flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): , she gathers all that she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it in the same spirit: generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination.

Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron 'Jane Grant, ' and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily and dreams of ways to trap small plant-eating animals. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up and where one of her favorite school subjects was botany, and she considers the implications of the English idea of the garden in colonized countries. On a trip to the Chelsea Flower Show, she visits historic English gardens on English soil. My Garden (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the gardeners who tend them.

Author Biography

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, Mr. Potter, See Now Then, and An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (with Kara Walker). She lives in Vermont.

Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.19 x 5.28 IN
Publication Date: July 16, 2024
ISBN9781250340634
Author Jamaica Kincaid
PublisherPicador USA
GenreBiography, Hobbies & interests, and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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