Books on the Menu

The Writer´s Garden

@brittarnhild

Sunday´s are perfect garden reading days. On my reading menu today is The Writer´s Garden, How gardens inspired our best-loved authors, by Jackie Bennet, with photographs by Richard Hanson.

The book is a lovely travel through a colourful bouquet of British gardens, from Jane Austen at Godmersham and Chawton, via Agatha Christia at Greenway, Beatrix Potter at Hill Top, Roald Dahl at Gipsy House, Winston Churchill at Chartwell, Charles Dickens at Gad´s Hill Place and so on and on and on.

Well known and loved authors, and many of these gardens have been living in my dreams for ages.

Some I might be able to visit for real......some time. Others will continue to live in my dreams.

In real or in dreams, here in the book I have them all :-)

 

Photos: Kew Gardens in April

 

 

Gardening Women

@brittarnhild

I am busy tonight. Too busy to sit down blogging, too busy too search though my iPhoto library, too busy too read. I should be preparing for a three day´s work trip which starts tomorrow. I should be packing my suitcase. I should be working on some writing for the first part of my trip, I should be......... I should be...... I should be...

 

But here I am. Blogging. Searching for photos. Reading.
And it feels heavenly.

Books are always my best medicine when I am stressed. When I have too much to do. When I worry. And while I left my suitcase halfpacked downstairs, I know exactly which medicine I need today. A book about gardening. A book about gardeners.

So from my book case with glass doors, where I keep many f my treasures, I have picked out Gardening Women, Their Stories from 1600 to the Present, by Catherine Horwood. And among so many other garden foremothers, I read about Gertrude Jekyll. My garden woman hero.

The photos are from Lindisfarne, where Gefrtrude Jekyll created a garden on the foot of Lindisfarne Castle. I have been there several times. These images were taken in May 2007.