Remembered Gardens

By: Cook, Ferris

Essays by 16 20th-century American garden writers, each one recalling the beginnings of its author's garden and the care lavished on the plots. Ferris Cook's accompanying paintings are derived from the jacket designs of garden books of the first decades of this century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821219928
• ISBN13: 9780821219928
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Pretty little collection of essays....

This small volume (150 pages) contains a dozen or so essays on gardening, written by individuals who lived and worked during the 20th century. The writers include journalists (Katherine White), editors (Richardson Little Wright), novelists (Mabel Osgood Wright), radio/tv personalities (Thalassa Cruso), and others. Unless you're a long-time fan of gardening you will not recognize their names, however, these essays are as entertaining and useful as anything written lately. I was reminded that I own a copy of "Remembered Gardens" because today I read an essay by Sydney Eddison in the December 2000 issue of "Fine Gardening" in which she mentioned this book as one of her all time favorites. Ms. Eddison is a garden writer who lives in Connecticut. Because she has limited space in her office, she has had to thin her garden book collection as I have done. "Remembered Gardens" is one of the books we both kept. The book is beautifully illustrated with colorful prints by the author Ferris Cook, who appears to work in a wood block medium. The essays are as relevant today as they were when first published. Each gardener "expert" shares the story of how she or he built a garden from scratch on an acre of clay or a rock ledge or some other difficult surface. The essays are relatively short, comparable to 'letters' written to an interested friend. Although this book is currently out-of-print, it is worth searching for in the used book market.