Posts Tagged ‘Garden Writing’
Writing a Garden Catalog
by Beth Chatto Since before Christmas, I have been nibbling, in odd moments, at my new catalog. I try to write word pictures of plants, which might make them irresistible. When I began the nursery twenty years ago, I issued a very small list with descriptions of plants, as I saw them, in place of…
Read MoreGarden Writer Elizabeth Lawrence on Writing and the Beautiful Nerine in the Autumn Garden
“If you get back before I do… will you see if Nerine undulatais in bloom? And if it is, pick it when all of the flowers are out, and put it in your refrigerator until I get back. It bloomed last year while I was gone, and I have never seen it, and it is…
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