A beautifully designed, full-color personal account of what it
means to become a gardener, filled with specially commissioned
color photography, watercolors, and fine art. To make her new house
in Connecticut truly feel like home, Catie Marron decided to create
a garden. But while she was familiar with landscape design, she had
never grown anything. A dedicated reader with a lifelong passion
for literature, Marron turned to the library of gardening books
she'd collected to glean advice from a variety of writers on
gardening and horticultural topics both grand and small. Marron's
quest to become a gardener, however, was about more than learning
the basics about mulch or which plants work best in the shade. She
sought something far more elusive: to identify the core qualities
and characteristics that make a person a gardener and an
understanding of what a garden could mean to her as it had to
multitudes of other gardeners over the centuries. In Becoming a
Gardener, Catie Marron chronicles her transformation into a
gardener over the course of eighteen months, seeding the details of
her experience with rich advice from writers as diverse as Eleanor
Perenyi and Karel Capek, Penelope Lively, and Jamaica Kincaid. As
she digs deeper into her readings and works in the garden itself,
Marron not only discovers the essence of gardening but in the words
of Michael Pollan, "the endlessly engrossing ways that cultivating
a garden attaches a body to the earth." A delightful blend of
informed opinion, personal reflection, and practical advice,
Becoming a Gardener explores topics as varied as the composition of
dirt, the agricultural wisdom of avid kitchen gardeners George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the healing power of digging in
the soil, and the beauty of finding solitude in nature. Throughout,
Marron carefully plants special illustrated features, such as
musings on the merits (and detriments) of the rose, essential
tools, moonlight gardening, children's books which feature gardens,
and her favorite gardens around the world. Also included is an
annotated list of recommended writers, books, and films related to
gardens and gardening, and a monthly to-do calendar. Featuring
specially commissioned illustrations by the Danish team All the Way
to Paris, and stunning photographs by acclaimed photographer
William Abranowicz that capture the pastoral beauty of Marron's
Connecticut garden, Becoming a Gardener is a very special and
moving portrait of life and the enduring power of literature and
nature that is sure to become an instant classic.
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