The Wild Gardener: The Life and Selected Writings of Eloise Butler

By Martha E. Hellander

Eloise Butler (1851 to 1933) was a Victorian plant hunter. She came to Minneapolis as the city was being settled and saw wild places disappear beneath Minneapolis? streets and fought to create one... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878390642
• ISBN13: 9780878390649
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Insightful look at growth of great garderner and her gardens

You are what you grow. That is the message of this delightful volume about one woman with a horticultural vision that is a rare match in US lore. As told by Hellander, Eloise Butler brought a deep affinity for earth's pleasures to her work in studying plants, creating new gardens, and opening the world of plants and flowers to others through her writings. As a combination biography and gardening book, the reader finds new connections between the presonal and the petal. This is a great book for anyone with a love of gardening, of cultural anthropology, and of the curiousity to find out how a woman grows.