Mister Owita's guide to gardening : how I learned the unexpected joy of a green thumb and an open heart
Wall, Carol , 1951 -
Mister Owita's guide to gardening : how I learned the unexpected joy of a green thumb and an open heart / by Carol Wall - New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons , 2014 - 294 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
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.
9780399157981
2014006580
Gardening---Philosophy
Intercultural communication
SB454.3.P45 / W35 2014b
635 WAL
Mister Owita's guide to gardening : how I learned the unexpected joy of a green thumb and an open heart / by Carol Wall - New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons , 2014 - 294 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
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.
9780399157981
2014006580
Gardening---Philosophy
Intercultural communication
SB454.3.P45 / W35 2014b
635 WAL
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