NOTES FROM MADOO makes pleasant, if challenging to the imagination because there are no photographs or drawings, gardening reading.

Erudite with witty side comments, the book covers the author's seasonal challenges for windy seaside plantings as he bravely worked without chemicals
to create the Madoo, "My Dove," Conservancy to live on after him.
Would that we could all gain access to his truckloads of organic horse manure!

What I'd change was his tendency to "pitch" plants that he no longer liked rather than finding new homes for them.
Worse still is his despising of the worthy and beautiful Forsythia and the silly Fairy chapter. Geez.
(And when will white male authors give up working in "niggardly?")

His chapter, "Death of a Field" is an early indictment of so-called progress and development.
As well, he gives welcome balance to the move toward alternative energies:
"It will begin when a tiny solar panel no larger than my fingernail is cheap and marketed cheaper."

On gardens: "Inexplicable Sahara as well as Siberias will visit gardens anywhere and at any time..."

And birds: " Feeding birds is saving them from starvation. Feeding them is keeping them in the garden,
where they will repay one's efforts with handsome inroads on the insect population, and the theft of fruit
or berry is small loss compared to this gain."

His comments on weather forecasting! = "Despite all its weather satellites,
the federal agency might just as well consider measuring the fat of bears as a more accurate indication of weather to come,
for global warming is a fact they mostly ignore. It doesn't compute, is that it?" (All this from a 2000 publication.)

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