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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Year in Our Gardens: Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy

A Year in Our Gardens: Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy

Goodwin, Nancy
Lacy, Allen
Blake-Adams, Martha

Paperback

Letters & EssaysGarden WritingGeneral Gardening

Publisher Price: $38.00

ISBN10: 080783761X
ISBN13: 9780807837610
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Feb 1 2012
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This engaging collection of letters follows the course of a year in the gardens of two passionate gardeners, Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy. They share a climate zone (7A), but their gardens differ enormously. Lacy gardens on a 100-by-155-foot plot of former farmland in southern New Jersey, on soil so sandy that he must water frequently if he is to garden at all. Goodwin gardens on rich clay loam at her historic piedmont North Carolina home -- which comprises more than sixty acres of woodland, meadow, and established plantings -- and she refuses to irrigate, because she believes in growing only those plants that are naturally adapted to the conditions of her land.

Through their letters, Lacy and Goodwin provide a charming and revealing chronicle of their lives and the lives of their gardens. They exchange stories of their horticultural successes and failures; trade information about a great many plants; discuss their hopes, fears, and inspirations; and muse on the connections between gardening and music, family, and friendship.

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