The The Gardener's Essential Gertrude Jekyll

For this quote alone it is worth acquiring The Gardener's Essential by Gertrude Jekyll:"...the song of the nightingale and the ring of the woodman's great axe gain a rich musical quality from the great fir wood. Why a wood of Scotch fir has this wonderful property of a kind of musical reverberation I do not know; but so it is. Any sound that occurs within it is, on a lesser scale, like a sound in a cathedral. The tree itself when struck gives a musical note. Strike an oak or an elm on the trunk with a stick, and the sound is mute; strike a Scotch fir, and it is a note of music." p.121Please Comment if you have heard such a sound, or know where such a wood is to be found, if at all at this time...Seems of another enchanted age...Another sample from the multitude of quotes that causes this book to still be read and that helps one become just a little more alive in Nature: "...the quality of that mysterious and delicious smell given off by the dying strawberry leaves, aromatic, pungent, and delicately refined, searching and powerful, and yet subtle and elusive- the best sweet smell of all the year. One cannot have it for the seeking; it comes as it will - a scent that is sad as a forecast of the inevitable certainty of the flower-year's waning, and yet sweet with the promise of its timely new birth." p. 194

Its good this book was very reasonably priced. A bit long winded. And i was hoping to see a few more diagrams or photos. But her style of labeling makes it easy to locate excellent information on whichever subject you are researching.

Mother loved this for Christmas. She randomly flipped it open and read one of Gertrude's many eloquent reflections on her experience with nature. There's a Walden-like element to some of her writing.

Loved the book. Great company to order from... Many thanks!

Great shape. Thank you!

Great!

I found it a bit hard going but my daughter for whom it was bought was very pleased

Excellent product.

Would buy again

what i expected