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Mister Owita's guide to gardening : how I learned the unexpected joy of a green thumb and an open heart
Edition
Large print ed.
Publication Information
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2014.
Physical Description
351 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Summary
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.
Contents
- Prologue
- 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
- Epilogue.