My Mother's Garden

by Hobhouse, Penelope

• ISBN13: 9781596091474
• ISBN10: 1596091479
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-29
• Publisher: Chamberlain Brothers

Summary

The beauty of a flower, and the beauty of a family. A garden and a child-the similarities between the two can be striking. Both require time and patience. Both call for a very special person to look after their needs and to consider their futures. And both will blossom when tended with a mother's love. This heartwarming collection of essays and stories-from beloved classics and modern favorites, authored by writing gardeners and gardening writers alike-celebrates the role of a mother's love in helping her garden and her children grow. Featuring selections from previously published material by noted garden essayists, as well as compelling excerpts from novels and memoirs, this volume is a touching tribute to mothers everywhere, whose perennial gifts of attention and care allow those they love to truly bloom.

Author Biography

Penelope Hobhouse is a garden writer, garden designer, garden historian, lecturer and gardener. Until 1993 she was in charge of the National Trust Gardens at Tintinhull House in Somerset. Her books include Colour in Your Garden, Plants in Garden History, Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening, Penelope Hobhouse's Garden Designs, and Penelope Hobhouse's Natural Planting. In 1996 she hosted The Art and Practice of Gardening (with Perennial Productions) for House and Garden Television in the United States.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Penelope Hobhouse	ix
1. "Gardening with My Mother" by Rose Marie Nichols McGee	1	(8)
2. "In the Garden-Fond Memories of My Mother" by Cathy Wilkinson Barash	9	(12)
3. "Letter to My Mother" from Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver	21	(6)
4. "My Mother's Flower Garden" from The Souvenir of Western Women by Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood	27	(4)
5. "The Butterfly Garden" by Louise Hallberg	31	(4)
6. "The Single Mom" from An Obsession With Butterflies by Sharman Apt Russell	35	(8)
7. "A River of Sunlight" by Sharon Lovejoy	43	(8)
8. "It's Mother!" from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett	51	(14)
9. "Smell the Roses" from Around the House and in the Garden by Dominique Browning	65	(4)
10. "Stardust Tomatoes in the Kitchen Window" by Doreen G. Howard	69	(8)
11. "Inside the Garden Gate" from Mother Stories by Maud Lindsay	77	(18)
12. "To Any Reader" from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson	95	(2)
13. "Gardening with Louise" by Judith B. Tankard	97	(10)
14. "Mother's Day Visit" by Briggs Nisbet	107	(4)
15. From Cultivating Delight by Diane Ackerman	111	(4)
16. "The Garden in Winter" from My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid	115	(4)
17. "Seeds for My Mother" by Linda M. Frank	119	(14)
18. "Wasps and Their Ways" by Margaret W. Morley	133	(12)
19. "My Grandmother's Aprons" by Patricia Lanza	145	(14)
20. "A Time of Renewal" from A Garden's Grace by Nancy Hutchens	159	(4)
21. "The Need for Solitude, Stillness, and Reflection" from The Sanctuary Garden by Christopher Forrest McDowell and Tricia Clark-McDowell	163	(4)
22. "Mother in the Garden" by Sarah Gorham	167	(4)
23. "Oral History" by Debra Landwehr Engle	171	(10)
Credits and Permissions	181	(6)
About the Authors	187