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Good In A Bed: Garden WritingsEditions
Review
‘Cos fresh and vivid they certainly are and I’m sure that some ‘Speccie’ folks who have never lifted a trowel or pruned a rose, read her articles with great pleasure. She puts gardening refreshingly into a wider context as she covers practical and theoretical matters alike, comments on trends in garden design and new varieties, reviews new books and the occasional obituary for an old friend (and in so doing reveals a lot about herself), her dislike of herb gardens (“dealing with thugs”), her war against plastic netting, and the terrors of doing the church flowers. It’s a pity in some ways that the format doesn’t allow for a longer piece from time to time, for there are some matters in the horticultural and agrarian sector which would benefit from her sound judgement combined with her quirky wit. The title, by the way, comes from the old nurseryman’s joke about the Rose, ‘Lady Hillingdon’, which is famously described in a catalogue as “good in a bed, but better up against the wall”. - review by Stewart Grimshaw |
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Ursula Buchan has been writing regularly in ‘The Spectator’ since 1984 and although I must have read nearly all of these pieces in this anthology before, I’m not sure that she will be pleased to hear that I remember so few of them. It must be the freshness of her prose style. Yes, that’s it Ursula!
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