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The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening

by Henry Clay Mitchell
The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening

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ISBN13: 9780253215857
ISBN10: 0253215854
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"The most soul-satisfying gardening book in years." --New York Times (March 1982, reviewing the 1981 cloth edition from IU Press).

"Genuinely a classic..." --Los Angeles Times (on the occasion of Houghton Mifflin's paperback edition, which came out in 1994).

"Is there anyone alive with the slightest interest in gardening who doesn't know that Henry Mitchell is one of the funniest and most truthful garden columnists we've got?" --Allen Lacy

"Mitchell is a joy to read. He has tried and failed, persevered and triumphed, and he has many sound recommendations for us fumblers and failures." --Celestine Sibley, in the Atlanta Constitution.

"Henry Mitchell is one of America's most entertaining and enlightening garden writers.... 'Garden writer' fails, in truth, to describe this man. He gardens and he writes--the former, if we take him at his word, with lust and loathing, foolhardiness and finesse; the latter with gentle irony and consummate skill." --Pacific Horticulture

"Mitchell mixes practical advice, encouragement, philosophic consolation and wit. He is the neighbor you wish you could talk to over the back fence." --House and Garden

Henry Mitchell was to gardening what Izaak Walton was to fishing. The Essential Earthman is a collection of the best of his long-running column for the Washington Post. Although he offered invaluable tips for novice as well as seasoned gardeners, at the heart of his essays were piquant observations: on keeping records; the role of trees in gardens (they don't belong there); how a gardener should weather the winter; on shrubs, bulbs, and fragrant flowers--and about observation itself. Here's one example: Marigolds gain enormously in impact when used as sparingly as ultimatums. Henry Mitchell came to his subject with reverence, passion, humor, and a contagious enthusiasm tempered only by his sober knowledge of human frailty. The Essential Earthman is for all who love gardening--even those who only dream of doing it.

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"... an idiosyncratic, down-to-earth journal of the travails and rewards of gardening for one's own pleasure, not for status or competition. It's funny and real; a classic for the gardener's library." --Austin American Statesman Indiana University Press

About the Author

Henry Mitchell grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and attended the University of Virginia. Before joining the Washington Post in 1970, he was a reporter on the Memphis Commercial Appeal and editor of the Delta Review. In addition to the Sunday gardening column, "Earthman," he wrote the "Any Day" column which appeared each Friday in the Post (his collection of essays from that column (1997) is also entitled Any Day. He died in 1993. There are two other collections of Mitchell's "Earthman" columns in print: One Man's Garden (1992) and Henry Mitchell on Gardening (1998).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:

Preface

1. On the Defiance of Gardeners

2. Earthman vs. the Seasons--Winter

3. Earthman vs. the Seasons--Spring

4. Interlude

5. Earthman vs. the Seasons--Summer

6. Earthman vs. the Seasons--Autumn

7. The Vine List

8. Bad Trees and Good Trees

9. Up and Down the Garden Path--Or, Designs for Gardening

10. "Minor" Bulbs--Major Joys

11. Marigold Madness--Or, Color in the Garden

12. Blossom Time--A Miscellany of Flowering Plants

13. The Tulip Connection

14. Reflections on Gardening

15. Iris

16. Roses

17. Of Toads and Bronze Dogs

18. It's a Jungle Out There!

19. Dahlias--a Lot at Stake

20. An Edible Complex

21. Daffodil-irious

22. Fragrant Flowers--A Potpourri

23. To Shrub It Up

24. Earthman's Earthly Paradise

Index


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ISBN:
9780253215857
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
01/24/2003
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Height:
.77IN
Width:
6.50IN
Thickness:
.75
LCCN:
81047011
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
2003
UPC Code:
2800253215859
Author:
Henry Clay Mitchell
Author:
Henry Mitchell
Author:
Mitchell Henry Clay
Subject:
Gardening-Flower Growing

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