The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden

Around The World In 80 Gardens -

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Customer Review: Evocative writing
I’m something of an armchair gardener - all the pleasure and none of the work - and this book satisfied my liking to read about beautiful gardens. Its chapters are titled according to the monastic hours, echoing the house’s monastic past. The author created a dreamlike garden out of a field beside her Shropshire house. The book is a description of the genesis of that garden with digressions into history, herbalism, religion and the uses and growing habits of the plants she seeks to cultivate. The writing is brilliantly clear and the garden comes to life as you read. There are line drawings in the style of illustrations from a medieval book of hours, though no photographs, together with a plan of the layout of the garden This is a book to be enjoyed by anyone who has an interest in gardening, history or the spirit of human endeavour. To create such a magnificent garden is truly a labour of love
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Customer Review: A good introduction to bird watching.
Well the rains finally stopped, the suns out, the birds are singing and it’s a bank holiday! Springs finally arrived and the bins are out looking for those welcome visitors to the garden. If you’re just beginning you relationship with our feathered friends, then you cann’t beat the combined talents of the RSPB and David Attenborough to ensure that you are provided with a whole range of information in an entertaining way.
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The In The Night Garden Pop Tidy is an instant storage solution for toys, clothes and much more, so perfect for parents and children! A great way of encouraging youngsters to keep their clothes or toys tidied away and off their floor, Mums and Dads will quickly find that Igglepiggle makes tidying fun! If Igglepiggle tidies up then so can they!
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