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Title Green pens : a collection of garden writing / compiled and edited by Katie Holmes, Susan Martin [and] Kylie Mirmohamadi
Published Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, 2004

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 MELB  635.092294 Hol/Gpa  AVAILABLE
Description x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
regular print
Series General series of the Miegunayah Volumes
Miegunyah Press series.
Contents Introduction -- Settling -- Dreaming -- Gardening life -- Sex in the garden -- A child's garden -- Friend and foe -- The garden of good and evil -- Gardening nation -- Schooling the gardener -- The walled garden -- Remembering
Summary This charming selection of clippings from gardeners who love to write and writers who love their garden spans eras, fashions and genres. Letter and diary entries show ordinary people revelling in or struggling with their gardens; informed advice is offered by newspapers and magazines while extracts from gardening catalogues, planting guides, novels and poems reflect the full range of what a garden can mean--from the prosaic to the profound
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 265-271
Subject Gardens -- Australia -- Diaries.
Gardens -- Australia -- Anecdotes.
Gardens -- Australia -- Correspondence.
Garden writing.
Gardeners -- Australia.
Gardeners -- Australia -- Anecdotes.
Gardeners -- Australia -- Diaries.
Gardeners -- Australia -- Correspondence.
Gardening -- Australia -- History.
Gardens -- Australia -- History.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Diaries.
History.
Records and correspondence.
Diaries.
Anecdotes.
Personal correspondence.
Author Holmes, Katie.
Mirmohamadi, Kylie.
Martin, Susan K.
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