tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post2233840599297113060..comments2024-03-18T23:21:19.197-07:00Comments on Ciao Domenica: A Garden Book ClubSunday Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13148090705938196599noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-23082700081763954162015-08-15T06:45:03.306-07:002015-08-15T06:45:03.306-07:00Awesome and interesting article. Great things you&...Awesome and interesting article. Great things you've always shared with us. Thanks. Just continue composing this kind of post. <br /><a href="http://global-hegn.dk/" rel="nofollow">composit</a><br />Ramihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07457508773593154604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-34830325897383428372015-08-12T16:00:54.538-07:002015-08-12T16:00:54.538-07:00Many thanks for mentioning my little book about Be...Many thanks for mentioning my little book about Beatrix Potter, Sunday. My book group likes themed events, so we read Frida by Barbara Mujica then went to the current show about Frida Kahlo at the New York Botanical Garden. If you are interested in more on Vita (and Harold, who gets short shrift on the credit for Sissinghurst IMO), I'd suggest Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson.Marta McDowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08548427078018827484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-69548236097778300362015-08-11T20:53:12.315-07:002015-08-11T20:53:12.315-07:00What a fun idea. I would love a themed book club, ...What a fun idea. I would love a themed book club, especially a British classics one as mentioned above!Anbolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10080054175904900094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-65470220627619071332015-08-09T09:22:59.898-07:002015-08-09T09:22:59.898-07:00Penny, thank you for your suggestions! I will be s...Penny, thank you for your suggestions! I will be sure to bring these up at our meeting.Sunday Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13148090705938196599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-20808853387880979152015-08-09T09:04:08.131-07:002015-08-09T09:04:08.131-07:00Wonderful posting! Thank you.
I would love to be...Wonderful posting! Thank you. <br />I would love to be in a themed book group, but can barely handle the books I read for my longtime book group (more than 26 years). My garden club does read a garden related book each year and discusses it. Always a delight and often challenging. <br />I hope you won't mind my suggesting two of my favorite books that your newly formed club might consider. "The Invisible Garden" by Dorothy Sucher and "One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place" by Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown, the latter was one of my Garden Club's selections a few years ago and we had a lively discussion. Penny O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14665025558373015362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-30226340936044389912015-08-08T16:14:01.847-07:002015-08-08T16:14:01.847-07:00How wonderful to have my own gardening philosophy ...How wonderful to have my own gardening philosophy be affirmed by such an illustrious gardener! I wrote about just this today on my own blog - how we have crammed so much into a tiny, oddly shaped space and cannot decide at this stage whether to expand it, cut back, or just let it be. http://artjournaler.typepad.com/pomegranatesandpaper/Loretta a/k/a Mrs. Pomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04214167409578390500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-90134190315940805172015-08-08T12:46:59.237-07:002015-08-08T12:46:59.237-07:00I am enjoying catching up after a busy summer. I ...I am enjoying catching up after a busy summer. I love gardening books and will add these to my reading lists. It would be great to have a gardening book group. Love reading about your summer favorites. I suggested "Euphoria" for my book group, and was voted down. It remains on my list. Happy to read you enjoyed it. Have a wonderful weekend!Bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06285041048746416249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-80687793122919783452015-08-05T13:08:36.399-07:002015-08-05T13:08:36.399-07:00I can only imagine how beautiful the garden at Sis...I can only imagine how beautiful the garden at Sissinghurst must be. I absolutely love English garden but the weather there seems to make plants thrive and grow. Of course, pretty gardens do take a lot of work too.Loreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520908604580765632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-40361048126965882042015-08-05T06:44:43.385-07:002015-08-05T06:44:43.385-07:00I love the idea of a themed book club, I think it ...I love the idea of a themed book club, I think it would add so much richness to the discussions. I agree with the passage above about cramming. I'm trying to do more of that in our garden, I love the lush feeling it creates.KSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10251064646063353242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-63427375117104975212015-08-04T15:02:26.312-07:002015-08-04T15:02:26.312-07:00It has been so long since I've been in a book ...It has been so long since I've been in a book club. I'm vicariously enjoying yours. Painting the hamptonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15474404078973540030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-2830419791963858052015-08-04T14:46:27.948-07:002015-08-04T14:46:27.948-07:00What a fabulous idea Sunday.....a 'themed'...What a fabulous idea Sunday.....a 'themed' book club. And what a glorious garden book to start with! I've visited Sissinghurst and, of course, was swept away by its beauty. I'm sure her white garden has launched a million other white gardens around the world! And I like the advice about cram, cram, cram! Masses are indeed much more enchanting than mingies!<br /><br />Lovely post (again).<br /><br />Ciao<br /><br />Robyn Paris Rendez-vous and Beyondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08168281341920168771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-44662228191593178982015-08-04T12:38:03.993-07:002015-08-04T12:38:03.993-07:00Mary, after visiting your blog I see that you are...Mary, after visiting your blog I see that you are from Devon. Last fall we went to Cornwall and Devon and I fell in love! Such a glorious part of the world. We walked from our hotel to the village of Chagford and couldn't believe how gorgeous the scenery was along the way. It was as if time had stood still and a Thomas Hardy heroine could come striding across the countryside at any moment. Our gardens here in Los Angeles are also suffering as we are in an historic drought. They are not exactly looking like Sissinghurst! But that's what garden books are for, to take us away... Sunday Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13148090705938196599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-84437157252222610232015-08-04T12:33:57.518-07:002015-08-04T12:33:57.518-07:00Thanks for your fine blog about garden books, I lo...Thanks for your fine blog about garden books, I loved the book Virginia Woolf's Garden and are looking forward to read the book about Sigginghurst.<br />I attend a book club, but with no theme, but I would love to start a book club with the theme "freedom and self chosen loneliness" ;) Have just read a marvelous book of LInda Olsson "The kindness of your nature" with that specific theme.LAGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10856433938862338062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-78820902594047806102015-08-04T12:32:43.631-07:002015-08-04T12:32:43.631-07:00Pamela, I would love to see your book list for the...Pamela, I would love to see your book list for the British Classics club. If only I could convince my book club to read these!<br />xx SundaySunday Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13148090705938196599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-55142101043550498102015-08-04T10:23:34.075-07:002015-08-04T10:23:34.075-07:00This all sounds amazing Sunday. I'm sure your ...This all sounds amazing Sunday. I'm sure your new book club will be a joyous undertaking with like-minded readers who are inspired by gardens and gardening. The photo of the white roses is glorious - and makes my garden, which has just about fried to a crisp in the NC torrid heat with very little rain, look very sad. When in England in June I saw beautiful gardens - even my own childhood one - when I walked past the house and reminded my granddaughter that is was where I grew up and gardened with my mother, her great-grandmother!<br />Thanks for sharing the book links - I may be buying several of those.<br /><br />Mary -Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11915239653283205065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502245000248725118.post-86260963982536472202015-08-04T09:02:28.943-07:002015-08-04T09:02:28.943-07:00I belong to a quarterly book club in Nashville - a...I belong to a quarterly book club in Nashville - about a four hour drive for me. We meet in pubs and tea rooms and read only British classics. However, after this current list is done, we are embarking on Southern classics. I suppose we'll start meeting in pancake houses now. Pamela Terry and Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746603636884819522noreply@blogger.com