The book begins with a gardener's biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her, including her home Hill Top Farm in England's Lake District. Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is the first book to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter's love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work. And her characters-Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest-exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens. More than 150 million copies of her books have sold worldwide and interest in her work and life remains high. There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Highly recommended."An enchanting and original account of Beatrix Potter's life and her love of plants and gardening." -Judy Taylor, vice president of the Beatrix Potter Society She also offers notes and suggestions for further reading.īeatrix Potter's Gardening Life by Marta McDowell is a wonderful, joyful book. Towards the end of the book, just when you think you couldn’t ask for anything more, she provides an appendix of all the plants in Beatrix Potter’s garden, which the author left to the UK's National Trust, and all of the plants in her books. She is a knowledgeable and thoughtful guide. Throughout the book, amidst every sort of wonderful image, Marta McDowell tells the story of the gardener and her garden, and of the plants and animals within it. Her illustrations of Peter Rabbit and friends are engraved on my heart, but I’d not realized that she painted numerous, beautiful landscapes and botanicals.īeatrix Potter was a preeminent gardener and naturalist. It’s a beautiful book, filled with stories and photos of Beatrix Potter, images of her original artwork and writings, and photos of Hill Top Farm, her home and garden in England’s Lake District. You can imagine how happy I was to come across Marta McDowell’s book, Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life. I read the stories to my own children, too, and more recently to my grandchildren. Tiggy-winkle, encouraged the future gardener and naturalist in me. McGregor and the wood, of Squirrel Nutkin and Mrs. I have no doubt that her descriptions of Peter Rabbit, Mr. I’ve loved Beatrix Potter’s books ever since I was a child.
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