Memoir

New! An English Garden in Provence

Natasha Spender
Natasha Spender is the widow of the English poet Stephen Spender with whom she bought a ruin of stone house under the Alpilles in southern France. Her book, beautifully produced, is a record of the garden she created there. In the epilogue to this lovely book, Spender makes a distinction between "The Seekers" and "The Dwellers".The Seekers flock to Provence, to anywhere really and impose an image of the self, hastily , upon the land. The Dwellers are different. They honor traditional planting: irises under the olive trees, the veiling of retaining walls with creeping rosemary. "For the Dwellers "the never-ending adventure is to marry all this indigenous character belonging to the landscape itself with the great range of plants which...OUGHT to belong to this habitat."

192 pgs, HC

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