Sweet Days and Roses

Sweet Days & Roses is an inspiring celebration of those days spent between the heat of the sun and the moist humus. Brilliantly edited by gardening author Leslie Geddes-Brown, it brings together some of the best garden writing of the past five centuries, at times witty and moving, at times reflective and anecdotal. Arranged in four parts--Garden Glory, Designs and Schemes, Plant Passions, and The Gardeners--the anthology includes insights from gardening luminaries such as Gertrude, Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Rosemary Verey, and Mirabel Osler. Interspersed through are reflections from a wide variety of literary greats, from Shakespeare to Pepys, from Edith Wharton to Frances Hodgson Burnett--and poems by, among others, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost.