Days and Hours in a Garden

Some gardens are diaries written in flowers. Eleanor Vere Boyle, a celebrated Victorian artist and writer, recorded her days among roses, lilies, and old yew hedges in this lyrical journal of an English garden. Season by season she notices what most of us hurry past: the first snowdrop, the scent of evening stocks, birdsong at dusk in the walled garden. Her prose is painterly and unhurried, a companion for quiet hours. If you have ever lost an afternoon among growing things, this book understands you completely. Open the gate and wander a while.