Montrose: Life in a Garden Review

Montrose: Life in a Garden
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This is the perfect garden book to curl up with on a cold winter's day, when you can't actually do anything in your own garden except dream. The biggest part of its charm for me is the lovely watercolor/botanical illustrations that are generously scattered throughout; the book itself is beautifully produced, with high quality paper & attractice layout & font.
Nancy Goodwin's writing is in a very simple, narrative style, and while it doesn't quite make the category of great garden writing, it certainly provides a pleasant picture of her amazing accomplishments in the gardens she created at Montrose, in North Carolina. She is remarkable in her ability to note both the minute details of an individual plant's growth and habit and the broad, sweeping overall design of a very complex estate.
This book would make an excellent gift for literate gardeners. Note that it is not a how-to gardening book - no directions for creating your own garden paradise - although there is certainly wisdom to be gleaned as Goodwin takes you through a year in her Southern garden. No glossy photos either, just the far more artistic and soothing softly done sketches & watercolors of individual plants.

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