Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
A New York Times Bestseller
There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters--Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest--exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens. In Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life, bestselling author Marta McDowell explores the origins of Beatrix Potter's love of gardening and plants and shows how this passion came to be reflected in her work.
The book begins with a gardener's biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her. Next, follow Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that truly brings her gardens alive. The book culminates in a traveler's guide, with information on how and where to visit Potter's gardens today.
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It's an enchanting, lovely book loaded with Beaxtrix Potter's beautiful watercolor paintings and photographs that chronicle her life and the strong influence of gardens and nature in it.
It's divided into three parts; the first, about Beatrix's life, the second about the seasons in her gardens, and third is a travelogue-like take of visiting her home(s) today that also identifies what has changed and what hasn't. Lastly, the back of the book contains tables about the plants in her gardens.
This is a book to be cherished. It is a delight and one that I not only go back to time and again but one I often give as gifts to my friends.
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