Natural Selection: A Year in the Garden

ISBN: 1783351179

Author: Pearson, Dan

Condition: New

"A lovely book for green-thumbed readers to read in the winter as they sit by the fireplace and await spring."-Publisher's WeeklyIn Natural Selection, Dan Pearson draws on ten years of his Observer columns to explore the rhythms and pleasures of a year in the garden. Traveling between his city-bound plot in South London and twenty acres of rolling hillside in Somerset, he celebrates the beautiful skeletons of the winter garden, the joyous passage into spring, the heady smell of summers bud break and the flaring of color in autumn.Pearsons irresistible enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge overflow in a book teeming with tips to inspire your own space, be it a city window box or country field. Bringing you a newfound appreciation of nature, both wild and tamed, reading Natural Selection is a deeply restorative experience.