Mister Owita's guide to gardening : how I learned the unexpected joy of a green thumb and an open heart /
Wall, Carol, 1951-
Mister Owita's guide to gardening : how I learned the unexpected joy of a green thumb and an open heart / Carol Wall. - New York: Amy Einhorn Books / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2014. - 294 pages ; 22 cm.
Garden angel -- Of particular beauty are the azaleas -- A rose between two thorns -- A promising blade of grass -- Anticipated blooms -- Approaching systems -- The canopy of the yukon gold potato -- Every yard must have its flowers -- Shades of white -- The perfect Christmas tree -- Frail magnolia -- Lemon -- A pretty sky -- Potted plants and fresh flowers -- Green plants, only -- Impatiens -- Gardening seminars -- Snow -- Tomato plants -- Seedlings -- The river -- An awkward path -- The lilies of the field -- Rolling waters -- All the things he loved.
Describes how a period of transition in the journalist author's life marked by her empty nest, a recent illness and her aging parents led her to forge a deep friendship with a gifted Kenyan gardener with whom she transformed her yard and shared long-buried secrets.
9780399157981 (hbk.) 0399157980 (hbk.)
2013036314
Gardening--Philosophy.
Intercultural communication.
SB454.3.P45 / W35 2014
Mister Owita's guide to gardening : how I learned the unexpected joy of a green thumb and an open heart / Carol Wall. - New York: Amy Einhorn Books / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2014. - 294 pages ; 22 cm.
Garden angel -- Of particular beauty are the azaleas -- A rose between two thorns -- A promising blade of grass -- Anticipated blooms -- Approaching systems -- The canopy of the yukon gold potato -- Every yard must have its flowers -- Shades of white -- The perfect Christmas tree -- Frail magnolia -- Lemon -- A pretty sky -- Potted plants and fresh flowers -- Green plants, only -- Impatiens -- Gardening seminars -- Snow -- Tomato plants -- Seedlings -- The river -- An awkward path -- The lilies of the field -- Rolling waters -- All the things he loved.
Describes how a period of transition in the journalist author's life marked by her empty nest, a recent illness and her aging parents led her to forge a deep friendship with a gifted Kenyan gardener with whom she transformed her yard and shared long-buried secrets.
9780399157981 (hbk.) 0399157980 (hbk.)
2013036314
Gardening--Philosophy.
Intercultural communication.
SB454.3.P45 / W35 2014