Painted Garden

About this book

This beautifully illustrated personal sketchbook includes records of planting harvesting and blooming throughout the four seasons-plus a host of useful information for any gardener. Included are an illustrated list of herbs and their uses a homespun recipe for waterproofing boots and advice on distinguishing a robins egg from a bullfinchs. Also peppered throughout are quotations and guidance from well-known gardening authorities including Mary Russell Mitford C.W. Earle Vita Sackville-West and Louise Beebe Wilder. Gardners everywhere will take great pleasure in this collection of intimate musings thoughtful philosophy and touching artwork. Mary Woodin was first trained as a textile designer at Manchester Metropolitan University in England and later as a ceramic designer at the Royal College of Art. She has worked in all areas of surface pattern design. Her major commissions include designs for the London Undergrounds South Kensington station.