This charming book, published in 1997, was a collaborative effort between octogenarian Emily Whaley of Charleston and South Carolina author and house designer William Baldwin. It’s part memoir, part family history, part entertaining guide and recipe book, but mostly, a tribute to Mrs. Whaley’s own garden and what it meant to her, and to the generations of gardeners in her
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A few sequential days of near-record warmth were a joy to us here in Woodford County after this particularly long, gray, snowy winter. Although I tilled the garden under last fall, vowing to let it go, a few perennials proved hardier than the tiller. I couldn’t bear to destroy the Lenten Roses, and they have been especially beautiful this year.
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One July day in 1997, while sneezing my way up the musty steps to the “bargain attic” of Poor Richard’s Book Store in Frankfort, Kentucky, I saw a framed page on the wall, in what appeared to be hand-set type; perhaps a product of Kentucky’s Larkspur Press. At first glance, I took the text to be that of a translation
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