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A Gentle Plea for Chaos - Osler, Mirabel
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In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of ...

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A Gentle Plea for Chaos 2011, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

ISBN-13: 9781408817896

Paperback

A Gentle Plea for Chaos 1998, Arcade Publishing, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781559704397

Arcade edition

Hardcover