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Sharon White's book helps normalize the dying process and take the
unknown out of the hospice experience. Follow her helping others
find comfort, effective pain control and a higher quality of life
while at the same time honoring each patient's individual
processes. Learn how with hospice's expertise their journey is made
a little easier.
New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a
journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in
"Vanished Gardens." In prose now as precise and considered as the
paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted
vista, White explores Philadelphia's gardens as a part of the
city's ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and
naturalists working in the area around her home.
In one section of the book, White tours the gardens of colonial
botanist John Bartram; his wife, Ann; and their son, writer and
naturalist William. Other chapters focus on Deborah Logan, who kept
a record of her life on a large farm in the late eighteenth
century, and Mary Gibson Henry, twentieth-century botanist, plant
collector, and namesake of the lily Hymenocallis henryae.
Throughout White weaves passages from diaries, letters, and memoirs
from significant Philadephia gardeners into her own striking prose,
transforming each place she examines into a palimpsest of the
underlying earth and the human landscapes layered over it.
White gives a surprising portrait of the resilience and richness
of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening
can connect nature to urban space. She shows that although gardens
may vanish forever, the meaning and solace inherent in the act of
gardening are always waiting to be discovered anew.
This title encounters an urban landscape through the eye of a
gardener.New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White
begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and
present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose, now as precise and
considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical
as an Olmsted vista, White explores the city as a part of its
ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and
naturalists working in the area around her home.In one section of
the book, White tours the gardens of colonial botanist John
Bartram; his wife, Ann; and their son, writer and naturalist
William. Other chapters focus on Deborah Logan, who kept a record
of her life on a large farm in the late eighteenth century, and
Mary Gibson Henry, twentieth-century botanist, plant collector, and
namesake of the lily Hymenocallis henryae. Throughout White weaves
passages from diaries, letters, and memoirs from significant
Philadephia gardeners into her own striking prose, transforming
each place she examines into a palimpsest of the underlying earth
and the human landscapes layered over it.White gives a surprising
portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in
Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to
urban space. She shows that although gardens may vanish forever,
the meaning and solace inherent in the act of gardening is always
waiting to be discovered anew.
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