{"product_id":"a-garden-from-a-hundred-packets-of-seed-9780374528775","title":"A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An engaging mix of the serious and the playful, and Fenton writes with a lightness of touch perfectly suited to the subject.\" --Alexander Urquhart, T\u003ci\u003ehe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForget structure. Forget trees, shrubs, and perennials. As James Fenton writes, \"This is not a book about huge projects. It is about thinking your way toward the essential flower garden, by the most traditional of routes: planting some seeds and seeing how they grow.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this light hearted, instructive, original \"game of lists,\" Fenton selects one hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed. Flowers for color, size, and exotic interest; herbs and meadow flowers; climbing vines, tropical species--Fenton describes readily available varieties, and tells how to acquire and grow them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is a happy, stylish, unpretentious, and thought-provoking gardening book that will beguile and inspire both novice and expert alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Fenton\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, critic, and gardener. From 1994 to 1999 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, where he has created a noted garden. He writes about poetry, art history, and gardening for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323796984082,"sku":"9780374528775","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d35a7bd-1455-4b9b-b5f2-4fcf1d0143a6.jpg?v=1727661396","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-garden-from-a-hundred-packets-of-seed-9780374528775","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}