A Year in Our Gardens by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy

A Year in Our Gardens by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy

This is a book of letters between Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy between 1998 and 1999.

These two friends are both enormously passionate gardeners and drew inspiration from their shared zest for plants.

Aside from sharing a growingng zone (7A), their gardens differed significantly.

Allen gardened on sandy soil on a small lot while Nancy battled rich clay loam on over sixty acres.

Together, Nancy and Allen swapped stories of their horticultural successes and failures, traded information about many plants, discussed their hopes, fears, and inspirations, and mused on the connections between gardening and music, family, and friendship.

I love what it says in the description of this book:

Any woman who buys a house because of the quality of its dirt is a true gardener.

Any man who reads garden catalogs word for word, cover to cover, is equally enthusiastic about plants.

Meet Goodwin and Lacy, two kindred spirits… who also reveal the changes in their lives, sharing their innermost feelings and experiences, as one does only with a very close friend.

 

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