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Hamer, Marc.
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Hamer, Marc -- Homes and haunts -- Wales.
Gardeners -- Wales -- Biography.
Gardening -- Wales.
Natural history -- Wales.
Gardens -- Wales.
Nature.
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Hamer, Marc.
Hamer, Marc -- Homes and haunts -- Wales.
Gardeners -- Wales -- Biography.
Gardening -- Wales.
Natural history -- Wales.
Gardens -- Wales.
Nature.
MARC Display
Seed
to
dust
:
life
,
nature
, and a
country
garden
/ Marc Hamer, author of How to catch a mole.
by
Hamer, Marc.
Greystone Books, 2021.
Call #:
635.09429 H214s
Subjects
Hamer, Marc -- Homes and haunts -- Wales.
Gardeners -- Wales -- Biography.
Gardening -- Wales.
Natural history -- Wales.
Gardens -- Wales.
Nature
.
ISBN:
9781771647687 (hc)
Description:
404 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"For readers of Late Migrations and Vesper Flights From the acclaimed author of How to Catch a Mole, this meditative memoir explores the wisdom of plants, the joys of manual labor, and the natural cycle of growth and decay that runs through both the
garden
's
life
and our own. Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre
garden
in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The
garden
is vast and intricate. It's rarely visited, and only Hamer knows of its secrets. But it's not his
garden
. It belongs to his wealthy and elegant employer, Miss Cashmere. But the
garden
does not really belong to her, either. As Hamer writes, 'Like a book, a
garden
belongs to everyone who sees it.' In
Seed
to
Dust
, Marc Hamer paints a beautiful portrait of the
garden
that 'belongs to everyone.' He describes a year in his
life
as a
country
gardener, with each chapter named for the month he's in. As he works, he muses on the unusual folklores of his beloved plants. He observes the creatures who scurry and hide from his blade or rake. And he reflects on his own
life
: living homeless as a young man, his loving relationship with his wife and children, and -- now -- feeling the effects of old age on body and mind. As the seasons change, Hamer also reflects on the changes he has observed in Miss Cashmere's
life
from afar: the death of her husband and the departure of her children from the stately home where she now lives alone. At the book's end, Hamer's connection to Miss Cashmere changes shape, and new insights into relationships and the beauty and brutality of
nature
emerge. Just like all good books and gardens,
Seed
to
Dust
is filled with equal parts
life
and death, beauty and decay, and every reader will find something different to admire."--Publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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