Marta McDowell. Timber, $29.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-60469-589-2
The land surrounding the White House is “one of the oldest continually cultivated patches on the North American continent,” explains McDowell (Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life) in her delightful dig through White House gardens. She plots their...
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Marta McDowell. Timber, $27.95 (390p) ISBN 978-1-60469-727-8
McDowell (Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life) commemorates the 150th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) with a captivating look at the beloved Little House on the Prairie author’s relationship with nature. Mining her subject’s novels and...
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Marta McDowell. Timber, $24.95 (316p) ISBN 978-1-60469-990-6
With this consideration of the English novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), garden historian McDowell (Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life) continues tripping down the verdant paths of writer-gardeners to study the ways plants informed their...
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