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Mister Owita's guide to gardening : how I learned the unexpected joy of a green thumb and an open heart

Call Number

  • LARGE TYPE 635 W1871 (CEN)

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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.

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