"Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre garden in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The garden is vast and intricate. It's rarely visited, and only Hamer knows of its secrets. But it's not his garden. It belongs to his wealthy and elegant employer, Miss Cashmere. But the garden does not really belong to her, either. As Hamer writes, "Like a book, a garden belongs to everyone who sees it." In Seed to Dust, Marc Hamer paints a beautiful portrait of the garden that "belongs to everyone." He describes a year in his life as a country gardener, with each chapter named for the month he's…mehr
"Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre garden in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The garden is vast and intricate. It's rarely visited, and only Hamer knows of its secrets. But it's not his garden. It belongs to his wealthy and elegant employer, Miss Cashmere. But the garden does not really belong to her, either. As Hamer writes, "Like a book, a garden belongs to everyone who sees it." In Seed to Dust, Marc Hamer paints a beautiful portrait of the garden that "belongs to everyone." He describes a year in his life as a country gardener, with each chapter named for the month he's in. As he works, he muses on the unusual folklores of his beloved plants. He observes the creatures who scurry and hide from his blade or rake. And he reflects on his own life: living homeless as a young man, his loving relationship with his wife and children, and--now--feeling the effects of old age on body and mind. As the seasons change, Hamer also reflects on the changes he has observed in Miss Cashmere's life from afar: the death of her husband and the departure of her children from the stately home where she now lives alone."--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
MARC HAMER was born in the North of England but has lived in Wales for more than thirty years. After spending a period of time homeless, then working on the railway, he returned to education and studied fine art. Hamer worked in art galleries and taught creative writing in prisons before becoming a gardener and mole catcher. He is the author of How to Catch a Mole.
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Prologue January White Beginnings Peppered Moth February Returning Ice Jasmine Another Gardener Climbing Hydrangea A Story Cyclops Code-breaker Wood Pigeon The Old North ‘I’m Here, Are You There?’ She Needs a Stick March Grass Sprouts, Trees Bud Cosmos March Frost Pruning Roses Snow Peonies Potatoes Rattle in a Pan Cherry Buds Appear The Middle Way Sparrows Begin to Nest Bees Daffodils Narcissus—Are You There? Minotaur April Distant Thunder A Vase of Cherries Dahlias Girlish Love Is . . . The Window Cleaner Tulpen Swifts Arrive Song World Sings A Broken Heart Mouse Mowing in the Rain Floating Islands May Peonies Bloom Gulls Rip Grass Holy Thorn Mercedes An Endless Stream of Days Fossils Night Scents Burning Books Sun! Heart Maybug Rain, No Rain June A Dumb Labourer Visits A New Path Cold Returns Solstice In Your Garden A Round of Applause Aphids July Stoics Wabi-sabi Pelargoniums Flying Ants Day Swifts Leave Pine Cones Carp Green Flames August Cofiwch Dryweryn (Coffee-ookh Dre-weh-rin) Umbellifers Fountain Cats and Dogs Distant Sounds Pond Scum Laurels A Break Gathering Seeds September The Waste Land ‘Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird’ The Many-Forking Path Colchicums Scything the Meadow Autumn Equinox October Go Now, Bonnie Boy October Mist Birthday Whisky Molecatcher Our Lady of the Flowers Apples First Snow November Hop-tu-Naa Frost Anemone to Zantedeschia The Great Riddle of the Self Haiku Gipsies The Lily Gardens Lifting Dahlias Leaving December We Barely Spoke, I Tell Myself . . . Back to Work The Floating World Home Flowers Postscript and Acknowledgements
Prologue January White Beginnings Peppered Moth February Returning Ice Jasmine Another Gardener Climbing Hydrangea A Story Cyclops Code-breaker Wood Pigeon The Old North ‘I’m Here, Are You There?’ She Needs a Stick March Grass Sprouts, Trees Bud Cosmos March Frost Pruning Roses Snow Peonies Potatoes Rattle in a Pan Cherry Buds Appear The Middle Way Sparrows Begin to Nest Bees Daffodils Narcissus—Are You There? Minotaur April Distant Thunder A Vase of Cherries Dahlias Girlish Love Is . . . The Window Cleaner Tulpen Swifts Arrive Song World Sings A Broken Heart Mouse Mowing in the Rain Floating Islands May Peonies Bloom Gulls Rip Grass Holy Thorn Mercedes An Endless Stream of Days Fossils Night Scents Burning Books Sun! Heart Maybug Rain, No Rain June A Dumb Labourer Visits A New Path Cold Returns Solstice In Your Garden A Round of Applause Aphids July Stoics Wabi-sabi Pelargoniums Flying Ants Day Swifts Leave Pine Cones Carp Green Flames August Cofiwch Dryweryn (Coffee-ookh Dre-weh-rin) Umbellifers Fountain Cats and Dogs Distant Sounds Pond Scum Laurels A Break Gathering Seeds September The Waste Land ‘Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird’ The Many-Forking Path Colchicums Scything the Meadow Autumn Equinox October Go Now, Bonnie Boy October Mist Birthday Whisky Molecatcher Our Lady of the Flowers Apples First Snow November Hop-tu-Naa Frost Anemone to Zantedeschia The Great Riddle of the Self Haiku Gipsies The Lily Gardens Lifting Dahlias Leaving December We Barely Spoke, I Tell Myself . . . Back to Work The Floating World Home Flowers Postscript and Acknowledgements
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