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Books > Gardening > General
"As I stand at my kitchen sink and look across at what we
optimistically call our herb garden, to one side I see an old
wooden sign on which are carved the words 'Arthur's Garden'. Arthur
doesn't live here. My wonderful great-uncle died nearly thirty
years ago having spent most of his long life in the Victorian
terraced house in which his mother had brought up eleven children.
The sign had stood in the garden there for decades, a gift to the
man who'd always cherished that small patch of Kent, creating a
riot of glorious colour which lit up the row of long, narrow strips
that tumbled down to a line of back gates from which you could look
across the lane to the local coal yard below." In Arthur's Garden,
Pam Rhodes collates a heart-warming collection of songs and poems,
advice and tit bits about the glorious, very ordinary, English
garden - told through the life of her Uncle Arthur. This is a
gardening book, with a story.
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