Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (630 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786279265 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Twenty years ago, Laurie Lisle bought an old New England clapboard house with an awkwardly shaped backyard. Now, in these intimate essays, Lisle explores the fascinating connections among one's interior landscape, village life, and the natural world.. As she worked to transform it into a graceful garden, she also found herself digging into her feelings about love and loss, work and play, roots and rootlessness, solitude and sociability
"Gardening and Beyond" according to Bev C. Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life"The ritual of gardening gives a rhythm, even rapture, to everyday life that is apart from the routines of writing and the flows of relationships.Tending my garden became the same as taking care of myself."(Laurie Lisle)It was a delight to walk life's path with Laurie.I appreciated the gardening histories and the step by step transformations both of her personal life and the essence of her garden.Her chronicle often made me pause and consider my own life, my own garden.I smile at the intert. Gardening and the Inner Life Valerie G. Andrews These essays are a meditation on the changing seasons in Lisle's New England town yet they also reveal the seasons of the author's inner life. "Four Tenths of an Acre" tells the story of a woman coming to her maturity in the same way that a garden reaches its height after many years of culling and with the spontaneous addition of new colors and shapes. As I finished this memoir, I felt I had witnessed not just the transformation of the land but the transformation of the gardener.Lisle is the M.F.K. Fisher of the outdoor palette, describing loca. Gardening is next to godliness Paul Eckler Laurie Lisle is a former journalist and budding author who fled life in New York City for a place of her own in Sharon, CT. She didn't know anyone in Sharon, but her family is from New England. She gives us a crisp run through of her life in Connecticut, where to her gardening seems next to godliness. She meets the local gardening expert, joins the garden club, and begins swapping perennials with friends and neighbors. She researched the history of her house, of writers who were gardeners, and numerous old diaries. Along the way we get an array
From Publishers Weekly The descendant of generations of women gardeners, Lisle casually dispenses advice for meeting the challenge of creating a "little acadia" in a space that "looked like no one had ever gardened there before." In her rural Connecticut backyard, Lisle deals with common problems, including the vicissitudes of weather; the always-encroaching woods; and pests and deer that can, within minutes, destroy what has taken her years to grow. Lisle (Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe) finds "many similarities between the rule