Painted Garden: A Year in Words and Watercolors - Rilegato

Mary Woodin

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ISBN 10: 1422365778 ISBN 13: 9781422365779

Casa editrice: Courage Books/Running Press, 1905

Riassunto

This beautifully illustrated personal sketchbook includes records of planting, harvesting, and blooming throughout the four seasons -- plus a host of useful information for any gardener. Included are an illustrated list of herbs and their uses, a homespun recipe for waterproofing boots, and advice on distinguishing a robin's egg from a bullfinch's. Also peppered throughout are quotations and guidance from well-known gardening authorities, including Mary Russell Mitford, C.W. Earle, Vita Sackville-West, and Louise Beebe Wilder. Gardeners everywhere will take great pleasure in this collection of intimate musings, thoughtful philosophy, and touching artwork.

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Product Description:

This beautifully illustrated personal sketchbook, new to our Courage line of lavish gift books, will be catnip for any gardener. (Previous titles featuring Mary Woodin’s vibrant watercolor images have sold more than 300,000 copies.) THE PAINTED GARDEN is a collection of intimate musings, thoughtful philosophies, and touching artwork, with space for recording planting, harvesting, and blooming notes. Readers will discover useful gardening tips, an illustrated list of herbs and their uses, and advice from such well-known British gardening experts as Mary Russell Mitford, C.W. Earle, Vita Sackville-West, and Louise Beebe Wilder.

About the Author:

Mary Woodin was trained as a textile designer at Manchester Metropolitan University in England and as a ceramic designer at the Royal College of Art. Her major commissions include designs for the London Underground’s South Kensington station.

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• Editore: Courage Books/Running Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1905
• ISBN 10: 1422365778
• ISBN 13: 9781422365779
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Numero di pagine: 88