Gardener's Nightcap By Muriel Stuart

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Title	:	Gardener's Nightcap
Author	:	Muriel Stuart
Format	:	Paperback
Page	:	224 pages
ISBN	:	1903155568

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Muriel Stuart was a successful and well known poet during and just after the First World War She then had two children, gave up writing poetry and took to gardening with enormous enthusiasm and dedication She wrote only two books, Fool s Garden 1936 , about creating a garden in Surrey, and Gardener s Nightcap 1938 After the war, for thirty years, she was a well known Muriel Stuart was a successful and well known poet during and just after the First World War She then had two children, gave up writing poetry and took to gardening with enormous enthusiasm and dedication She wrote only two books, Fool s Garden 1936 , about creating a garden in Surrey, and Gardener s Nightcap 1938 After the war, for thirty years, she was a well known columnist for gardening magazines Although a great beauty, Muriel Stuart was shy and self contained and happiest in her garden.This work of hers is indeed a nightcap a soothing tonic to take in small doses just before bed The subjects covered are many and variegated They include Meadow Saffron, Dark Ladies, Better Goose berries, Good King Henry quite a good substitute for asparagus , The Wild Comes Back and Phlox Failure Each of these pieces is only a few lines in length yet tells the gardener far than extensive essays or manuals Gardener s Nightcap, a bestseller in its year of first publication, is illustrated by charming Rex Whistler type drawings And we end with the opening sentence There is an hour just before dark, when the garden resents interference.Its work, no less than the gardener s, is done Do not meddle with the garden at that hour It demands, as all living creatures demand, a time of silence

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Muriel Stuart 1885 1967 was a poet and gardening writer She published five collections of poetry in 1916, 1918 and the 1920s, and two books about gardening, Fool s Garden 1936 and Gardener s Nightcap 1938.

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Title: Gardener's Nightcap
Posted by:Muriel Stuart
Published :2016-02-16T12:29+01:00
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