Green Thoughts

A Writer in the Garden

By: Eleanor Perenyi

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Paperback | 15 September 2002 | Edition Number 1

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322 Pages

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"Unlike any other gardening book I know, with its Old World charm, its down-to-earth practicality, its whimsy and sophistication."-Brooke Astor, The New York Times Book Review

A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from "Annuals" and "Artichokes" to "Weeds" and "Wildflowers." An amateur gardener for over thirty years, Eleanor Perenyi draws upon her wide-ranging knowledge of gardening lore to create a delightful, witty blend of how-to advice, informed opinion, historical insight, and philosophical musing. There are entries in praise of earthworms and in protest of rock gardens, a treatise on the sexual politics of tending plants, and a paean to the salubrious effect of gardening (see "Longevity" ). Twenty years after its initial publication, Green Thoughts remains as much a joy to read as ever.

This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Allen Lacy, former gardening columnist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and the author of numerous gardening books.

"You do not have to be a good gardener to fall in love with Green Thoughts. It reads with the intrepid assurance of a classic."-Mary McCarthy, The New York Review of Books

"One of those dangerous reference works that you reach for at a moment of horticultural crisis or indecision only to find yourself an hour later browsing far beyond the page where you began."-The New Yorker

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The "Modern Library Gardening Series" is an American gem of a find - reprints of gardening classics written and published long before today's flurry of overly bright garden books. These are true garden works, not just a photographic procession of perfect plants. Here, you'll find excitement, love, commitment and die-hard horticulturalists imparting their knowledge and experience in a way that makes learning enjoyable. From playwright Reginald Arkell's "Old Herbaceous" hilarious novel to Frank Kingdon Ward's diaries of daring-do in the Far East, American Eleanor Perenyi's pert comments and asides to Margery Fish's late-found desire to build a garden of her dreams in Devon, the passion and ardour with which these writers embrace the subject is sorely missed today. An American garden classic, "Green Thoughts" by Eleanor Perenyi offers an A-Z of essays on topics as diverse as strawberries and sweetpeas, tools and treehouses, vines and ivies. Delivered in a faintly ascerbic and often opinionated fashion, it is an informative and intelligent dissertation on her horticultural love over a period of twenty years. Disparaging, congratulatory, pensive and vivacious, this is a must for every gardener to read in the garden, perhaps at night, with a glass of wine, relaxing to Perenyi's informed, readable prose. - Lucy Watson

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Introduction to the Modern Library Gardening Series	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Foreword	p. xix
A Note on References	p. xxi
Annuals	p. 3
Artichokes	p. 8
Ashes	p. 9
Asparagus	p. 10
Asters	p. 12
Autumn	p. 14
Azaleas and Rhododendrons	p. 18
Beans	p. 21
Belgian Fence	p. 24
Biennials	p. 25
Birds	p. 28
Blues	p. 31
Compost	p. 39
Dahlias	p. 46
Daylilies	p. 54
Earthworms	p. 55
Endive	p. 57
Evergreens	p. 59
Failures	p. 63
Fennel	p. 66
Frost	p. 67
Fruit	p. 68
Garlic	p. 70
Gooseberries and Currants	p. 72
Hedges	p. 74
Help	p. 79
Herbs	p. 83
Hybrids	p. 101
Invitations	p. 104
Ivy	p. 105
James vs. Benson	p. 107
Lawns	p. 108
Lilies	p. 116
Longevity	p. 121
Magic	p. 123
Making Notes	p. 126
Mazes	p. 130
Mulches	p. 130
Naturalizing	p. 135
Night	p. 141
Onions	p. 143
Origins	p. 146
Partly Cloudy	p. 148
Paths	p. 153
Peonies	p. 156
Perennials	p. 161
Pests and Diseases	p. 166
Poison	p. 175
Poppies	p. 177
Potatoes	p. 179
Pruning	p. 181
Reward	p. 187
Rock Gardens	p. 188
Roses	p. 193
Seeds	p. 202
Seed Tapes	p. 207
Seeing Eye	p. 208
Standards	p. 209
Strawberries	p. 213
Sweet Peas	p. 214
Toads	p. 216
Tomato	p. 217
Tools	p. 221
Tree Houses	p. 225
Trees	p. 227
Tulips	p. 228
Two Gardeners	p. 235
Vegetables	p. 242
Vines	p. 250
Weeds	p. 253
Wild Flowers	p. 256
Woman's Place	p. 259
Catalogues	p. 271
Index	p. 281
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