Find Request It
Cover Image

Seed to dust life, nature, and a country garden

"For readers of Late Migrations and Vesper Flights From the acclaimed author of How to Catch a Mole, this meditative memoir explores the wisdom of plants, the joys of manual labor, and the natural cycle of growth and decay that runs through both the garden's life and our own. Marc Hamer has nurtured...

Full description

Saved in:
Main Author: Hamer, Marc (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books, [2021]
Subjects:
Hamer, Marc.
Gardeners > Wales > Biography.
Gardening > Wales.
Gardens > Wales.
Natural history > Wales.
Nature.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • January. White ; Beginnings ; Peppered moth
  • February. Returning ; Ice ; Jasmine ; Another gardener ; climbing hydrangea ; A story ; Cyclops ; Code-breaker ; Wood pigeon ; The old north ; "I'm here, are you there?" ; She needs a stick
  • March. Grass sprouts, trees bud ; Cosmos ; March frost ; Pruning roses ; Snow ; Peonies ; Potatoes rattle in a pan ; Cherry buds appear ; The middle way ; Sparrows begin to nest ; Bees ; Daffodils ; Narcissus: are you there? ; Minotaur
  • April. Distant thunder ; A vase of cherries ; Dahlias ; Girlish ; Love is ... ; The window cleaner ; Tulpen ; Swifts arrive ; Song ; World sings ; A broken heart ; Mouse ; Mowing in the rain ; Floating islands
  • May. Peonies bloom ; Gulls rip grass ; Holy thorn ; Mercedes ; An endless stream of days; Fossils ; Night scents ; Burning books ; Sun! ; Heart ; Maybug ; Rain, no rain
  • June. A dumb labourer visits ; A new path ; Cold returns ; Solstice ; In your garden ; A round of applause ; Aphids
  • July. Stoics ; Wabi-sabi ; Pelargoniums ; Flying ants day ; Swifts leave ; Pine cones ; Carp ; Green flames
  • August. Cofiwch Dryweryn (Coffee-ookh Drewehrin) ; Umbellifers ; Fountain ; Cats and dogs ; Distant sounds ; Pond scum ; Laurels ; A break ; Gathering seeds
  • September. The Waste Land ; 'Go, go, go, said the bird' ; The many-forking path ; Colchicums ; Scything the meadow ; Autumn equinox
  • October. Go now, bonnie boy ; October mist ; Birthday ; Whisky ; Molecatcher ; Our Lady of Flowers ; Apples ; First snow
  • November. Hop-tu-naa ; Frost ; Anemone to Zantedeschia ; The great riddle of the self ; Haiku ; Gipsies ; The lily gardens ; Lifting dahlias ; Leaving
  • December. We barely spoke, I tell myself ... Back to work ; The floating world ; Home ; Flowers

Similar Items