garden writing past and recent
Gardening magazines and catalogs strive to fill the reader with a can-do spirit. Their writers frequently overreach in their promises of success: "Grow all the fruit your family can eat for a year and have plenty to give away." "These evergreens grow 3-feet a year in all conditions." "Give your garden Style!" "Blooms in Hot Colors for 3 Seasons!!" Hype and hogwash. For relaxing reading, nothing can compete with books written in years gone by. Read these excerpts and see how they provide a sense of the writers' love for their gardens and the joys inherent in growing a garden. from " The Culture of Perennials " by Dorothy M-P. Cloud, published in 1925 "The propagation of perennials is an engrossing subject to the happy possessor of a garden, as through a knowledge of the processes of plant increase big results can be obtained from small beginnings and with comparatively small outlay. The method which Nature employs is to propaga...