#151
Title: A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed
Author: James Fenton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Year: 2001
Genre: Garden
125 pages
Okay, but not as enjoyable as it ought to have been. I picked it up thinking it would be an account or journal of, well, a garden planted from 100 packet of seed. This seemed interesting. In fact, it's about a hundred seeds the author recommends, sorted by categories (e.g., "Useful and Decorative Herbs"). This is less interesting to me, and rendered less interesting still by the author's somewhat condescending tone. Several times I wished I could say to him, "Just tell me why you like a plant, not why someone else's gardening book or garden style is inferior."
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