Home Ground: A Gardener's Miscellany

by Allen Lacy

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American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books (1997)

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For Hella, Paul, and Michael

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This book is about some of the plants I have lived with and loved (and a few that I have disliked or that did not return my affection) over a lifetime of gardening that got underway in Irving, Texas, during World War II, after I bit a teacher on the leg and was sentenced to do penance for this gross misdeed by working in an iris patch.

I am sitting at this moment in my cramped and sublimely messy study on a rainy Sunday in mid-June, looking at one of the bleakest and most desolate sights I have ever seen, short of the barren plains of La Mancha in early January.

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