Sitting in the Shade by Hugh Johnson
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast:
Sitting in the Shade by Hugh Johnson
This book is not trying to make anyone a better gardener. It offers the company of a mind that has lived alongside a garden for decades.
For more than forty-five years, Hugh Johnson kept Trad's Diary, recording what he noticed: winter tree structure, the smell of rain, the pleasure of shade, and the slow passing of seasons.
The entries are brief and perfectly suited to the armchair or the bedside. It is a book for times when the garden gives less, and still asks us to stay.