[.ca] Tasha Tudor's Garden (ISBN 0395436095)

a journey to the past:
Looking at Tasha Tudor's Garden is like taking a journey to another century, surrounded by beauty and peace. Tasha herself wears 19th century clothes, including petticoats, shawls, and head kerchiefs and lives in an antique-appearing house, going about her life with what seems to be a minimal of technology. The photographs that capture her seeing to the goats in the barn in winter, carrying a basket of hand-pulled weeds in summer, arranging lillies, tulips, peonies and old roses in her lovely old house, and seeing the cottage gardens in bloom are absolutely gorgeous. Sometimes gardeners just need inspiration, and this book is perfect for this. Enjoy.

Intimate and serene- a book to live in!:
Years ago, I chose Tasha Tudor as my role model. This book shows why. . .Richard Brown is such a gifted photojournalist- he really gives you a feeling that he knows/you can know Tasha Tudor. Tovah Martin's narrative is also very insightful- but the pictures tell it all. When I want to 'get away', I can just open this book. Treat yourself to this gift, and share one with a friend.

I LOVE this book!:
Tasha Tudor was my favorite childhood illustrator. What a delight to discover this photojournal of Tasha in her own home & garden- now I see where her artwork came from! Art-quality photos of Tasha, her grandkids & still lifes with flowers & fruit from her gardens. A beautiful book to cherish for a lifetime!

Gardening the way its supposed to be:
What a beautiful book. Wonderful to look at. Great gardening stories by Tasha. This book takes you to another time and place. I will buy all of her books!

Enchanting, Realistic for any cottage Gardner:
139 pages long with chapters: Introduction A Garden Lost in Time; April & Before Prelude To Spring; May The Garden Awakens; June Flowers of Profusion; July Daisy Garlands & Delphinums; August Lilies & Berries to Spare; September & Beyond Gathering the Harvest Scattered about the beautiful as well as informative pages are various water colours that Ms Tudor has done. And the photographs are such that they are inspirational as well as realistic and give the reader a sense of what the average gardener can do. This isn't a book that is a show off. It is a book that is earthy, pretty and old fashioned and a must for those of us who have inherited or bought or rent a cottage-home with vast possibilities for gardening. I especially like reading about the early thaw in April when the roads are to muddy for even the UPS to get to her house to deliver the vast amounts of seeds and bulbs she has ordered. And it was so nice to see that Ms Tutor loves bulbs to the excess like the rest of us. The pieces on her vegetables and fruits harvested and either cooked or canned made me smile as well as reminded me of what I loved about my childhood and why as old fashioned as it sounds still love to do. Cooking, baking, canning are things I find fun and not at all boring or a chore. Reading about her chicks and chickens and the decades she has kept birds was wonderful and another reminder of the joys of being self sufficient. And reading of her green house which in winter keeps her vase full of blooms (page 32) reminded me of why it is worth the expense of having even a small warm spot to grow flowers in the winter. But it is the writings and art of the crocuses that I keep coming back to see and read about. Unless you have awoken on a chilly spring day and seen the first crocus peaking out of the earth, you just cant image the joy and the sense of hopefulness this is. And I appreciated her suggestions on what type primroses to buy. And the photo on page 42 of the many stacked clay pots reminded me of how simple items can become art within our environments. And on page 62 I was happy to see that Forget Me Nots go well with the pale Johhny Jump Ups. Had never seen the combination before but will now try it. Oh and the sweet peas, which were my Dads favorite and always planted in February during Presidents week. And her wood burning cook stove looks just like my neighbors, and what we want in the future, with a gas supply backup. This is simply one of those books that if you love cottage or homestead gardening must own. It wont sit on your shelf but will be on you bedside table, computer desk or next to your favorite reading area, since you cant resist picking it up to enjoy over and over.