Beautiful Mist - Across the transformation into a part-time country bumpkin
not only at the newsagent, where more and more magazines compete around the country life for buyers, it is clear that vegetable garden and Co. are in fashion. Last I read the same two books, dealing with this issue. In her pocketbook "Beautiful Mist" says Irmgard Hochreither as it has done the man by her side, they - turn it into a weekend country bumpkin - a confident big city plant.
The Hamburg who loves to travel, is initially not on fire when her husband tells of a cheap Accommodation, located in the former East Rand area. The ancient farmhouse with a large property in the future to serve as a weekend house. Finally, the author does an Appointment wide strike and already on the following Saturday is the 122 kilometer route between home and perhaps the future weekend home completed. This first stay at the rural retreat in the author evokes childhood memories of holidays in the countryside. More persuasive are superfluous - the couple have agreed to sign the lease.
The following chapters talk about all sorts of animals, neighbors, community support, gossip and why it was suddenly hard to say goodbye again on Sunday evening for a working week of part-time country life.
learns in passing the garden interested reader that John Seymour's "self-sufficiency from the garden" for decades on the bookshelf of every city is one refugee While Irmgard Hochreither also surprised that her husband has such a book, he is busy with the planning of raised beds, dreaming of jumbo radishes. At another point is the talk of a gentle woman (it is not the author!) Who takes the night in the truest sense of the term intrusive measures to the slug plague Mr. (or Ms.) are. Horticulture is little else to read, but this is no reason to waive the reading!
The second book is named country like the way of Novella Carpenter, and is called "My Little City Farm - details coming soon in this blog.
Irmgard Hochreither:
Beautiful Mist
Ullstein publishers, 2011
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plant treasures
from many different sources such as original diaries, travel records and also from previously unpublished material from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the famous garden journalist Carolyn Fry compiled a bibliophile treasure whose charm a beautifully made album is like. The picture book for adults is lavishly illustrated with photographs and botanical drawings, and includes facsimiles of original documents such as the oldest known map of Kew Gardens. In my quite extensive collection of gardening books, it is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful books and if I had a voice in the awarding of the Garden Book Award, I had to think long, which I would give this new publication.
In a little over sixty pages, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to the issues of plant resources and plant collector and begins after a preface to the first expedition to the gold-guaranteed crop land of Punt and the spices imported from the Far East. More of each double-page chapters cover the introduction of the tulips in the European gardens and introduce plant collectors such as the Tradescant, Francis Masson, David Douglas and EH Wilson. In a historical summary of green gold may not be missing names such as Carl Linnaeus, Sir Joseph Banks and Joseph Hooker. It is not only about the past is reported. The current tasks of the Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank, and the consequences of climate change are also explained and a chapter is about the negative side effects from the spread of invasive species.
along the flowing body of water in our immediate environment is spreading the Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) Every year more. Although the problem of alien plants and the local paper here every now and then an item is worth, there are Hobby gardeners weeding around this same weeds in the creek adjacent to their land slope the soil and the plants probably provide even more regularly with water. As an apology may perhaps be added that it is also quite amusing to see how the mature seed capsules at the slightest touch to fly in all directions!
Carolyn Fry:
plant treasures
Callwey Verlag, 2010
from many different sources such as original diaries, travel records and also from previously unpublished material from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the famous garden journalist Carolyn Fry compiled a bibliophile treasure whose charm a beautifully made album is like. The picture book for adults is lavishly illustrated with photographs and botanical drawings, and includes facsimiles of original documents such as the oldest known map of Kew Gardens. In my quite extensive collection of gardening books, it is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful books and if I had a voice in the awarding of the Garden Book Award, I had to think long, which I would give this new publication.
In a little over sixty pages, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to the issues of plant resources and plant collector and begins after a preface to the first expedition to the gold-guaranteed crop land of Punt and the spices imported from the Far East. More of each double-page chapters cover the introduction of the tulips in the European gardens and introduce plant collectors such as the Tradescant, Francis Masson, David Douglas and EH Wilson. In a historical summary of green gold may not be missing names such as Carl Linnaeus, Sir Joseph Banks and Joseph Hooker. It is not only about the past is reported. The current tasks of the Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank, and the consequences of climate change are also explained and a chapter is about the negative side effects from the spread of invasive species.
along the flowing body of water in our immediate environment is spreading the Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) Every year more. Although the problem of alien plants and the local paper here every now and then an item is worth, there are Hobby gardeners weeding around this same weeds in the creek adjacent to their land slope the soil and the plants probably provide even more regularly with water. As an apology may perhaps be added that it is also quite amusing to see how the mature seed capsules at the slightest touch to fly in all directions!
Carolyn Fry:
plant treasures
Callwey Verlag, 2010
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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The Cipher Garden, or who are without guilt flowers
have chance I discovered that the German translation of "The Cipher Garden ', the already long on my wish list is, has passed me. The German title suggests, in contrast to the original content and no gardening. Chief Inspector Hannah Scarlett
has taken her team a new "Cold Case". The brutal murder of a landscape gardener was never solved and the investigation will now be rolled up for years because of an anonymous tip again. The surveys seem to be going back soon in the sand, as a shocking suicide sheds new light on the crime and the interrelations of the villagers.
The historian and television writer Daniel child lives far from the Lake District. Since his move to the countryside He developed an affinity for gardening. Has he considered until recently the word as a synonym for sweet blackberries Obstküchlein and dense green hedges, so even these climbers have now mutated into his enemy No. 1. He was even more concerned, however, a meaning behind the crazy, to discover for years neglected garden, which he purchased with his cottage. Not only the choice of plants seems strange, even the routing is completely aimless.
In search for solutions in their cases and mysteries, the paths of Scarlett and Hannah Daniel Cross child again and again. The story lines often change rather abruptly. The conclusions mystery to the garden I was not quite understandable and power comes only at the latter stages of the book.
Martin Edwards: The
without guilt
bastion Lübbe, 2008
have chance I discovered that the German translation of "The Cipher Garden ', the already long on my wish list is, has passed me. The German title suggests, in contrast to the original content and no gardening. Chief Inspector Hannah Scarlett
has taken her team a new "Cold Case". The brutal murder of a landscape gardener was never solved and the investigation will now be rolled up for years because of an anonymous tip again. The surveys seem to be going back soon in the sand, as a shocking suicide sheds new light on the crime and the interrelations of the villagers.
The historian and television writer Daniel child lives far from the Lake District. Since his move to the countryside He developed an affinity for gardening. Has he considered until recently the word as a synonym for sweet blackberries Obstküchlein and dense green hedges, so even these climbers have now mutated into his enemy No. 1. He was even more concerned, however, a meaning behind the crazy, to discover for years neglected garden, which he purchased with his cottage. Not only the choice of plants seems strange, even the routing is completely aimless.
In search for solutions in their cases and mysteries, the paths of Scarlett and Hannah Daniel Cross child again and again. The story lines often change rather abruptly. The conclusions mystery to the garden I was not quite understandable and power comes only at the latter stages of the book.
Martin Edwards: The
without guilt
bastion Lübbe, 2008
Monday, February 14, 2011
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