The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb

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Greystone Books, 2012 M01 6 - 200 páginas
"The passionate gardener is an irreverent exploration of the fierce attachment so many people develop to gardening. With his customary wit and wisdom, Des Kennedy dissects the gardening life, revealing the idiosyncrasies and illusions that underpin the gardener's passion." "In these pages, and with tongue in cheek, Kennedy sets out the Seven Deadly Sins and the Ten Commandments of gardening, and ponders the host of psychopathologies that afflict "plants people," from weather phobias to obsessive-compulsive behavior." "But amidst the follies associated with dysfunctional garden sprayers, bone meal derived from mad cows, and malodorous urine collection schemes, the brilliance of the gardening life shines through, as Kennedy captures the moments of transcendence, even ecstasy, that fuel this insatiable passion." --Résumé de l'éditeur.

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Des Kennedy has lived for the past thirty-five years with his partner, Sandy, in their hand-hewn home on Denman Island, one of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands. The author of countless magazine pieces and five previous books–two novels and three collections of essays–Kennedy has also made numerous TV and radio appearances and written for and narrated documentary films. A popular speaker on the gardening circuit, Kennedy has been active in the environmental scene for many years and was a founding director of a community land trust on his home island.

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