Spring rain
a life lived in gardens
Book - 2023
"From the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of the garden. In this restorative little book, best enjoyed in a single sitting under a tree, an adventurous young boy who traveled the world in his mind meets the old man he becomes, and together they build a new garden from a neglected plot behind his house on the edge of town. Alternate chapters follow author and professional gardener Marc Hamer as a child and his current life as a 65 year old. Hamer weaves practical gardening knowledge through these two memoir strands as he describes the planning and planting of his new small garden near Cardiff, Wales. In the words of Hamer, 'Spring Rain is about the joy of your own back garden. It is a story about the joy of small things, the world in a grain of sand, a universe in a small garden, with love for all the insects and slugs and flowers and weeds and seeds and roots and boundaries and shade and weather that the garden contains.'"--
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| Language: | English |
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Vancouver ; Berkeley ; London :
Greystone Books,
2023.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Rain: An adventure at sea, treasure island, a little wooden hut -- Gardener: Gerberas, umbrella, zinc, guilt, bow tie -- Rain: Tools, seeds, a cleaning song, books and a train to nowhere -- Gardener: Arranging flowers, skeleton birds, a broken shed and letting go -- Rain: Alburnum to chamomile -- Gardener: Venus, Lucifer, jellyfish, sunshine, crackly voice -- Rain: Horse farm, Antaeus, wolfsbane, a dying wasp -- Gardener: Ship of junk, memories, happiness, Thor -- Rain: A knife, a feather, starfish and a magpie's tongue -- Gardener: A new Eden, fear of the wild -- Rain: Ant hills, molehills, pigtails, poison -- Gardener: A length of string, a blue wheelbarrow -- Rain: Tin-can radio, Slow the slug -- Gardener: A walk down by the eye-spikes, a dog, a ghost, a green man -- Rain: Rhubarb leaves and monkshood, Grandma's cows and dowsing -- Gardener: I need three hands, a list of plants, sorting seeds, sparkling water -- Rain: A kiss, beautiful scars -- Gardener: Feelings, desire and suffering, a concert -- Rain: Growing vegetables, a lost box -- Gardener: Free will, choices, Paradise lost -- Rain: Tea for three, Blackpool rock -- Gardener: Witness, enjoying the movie, hedgehogs -- Rain: Elephants, powdered horses, half a lady, people from Glasgow -- Gardener: Forget-me-nots, Zen monks, colour and scent -- Rain: Winter, hand of glory, Gipsy Rose Lee leaves, rust -- Gardener: Paradise lost -- Rain: Settling dust, booze, mother, vagrancy -- Gardener: Paradise regained. | |
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