A Little Light Weeding: Evergreen Reading for the Perennial Gardener - Softcover

An English actor with a penchant for gardening, Briers has a playful spirit that causes him to refuse to take his avocation too seriously. As the title suggests, in what is essentially an anthology of light reading, Briers actually performs some light weeding: that is, he extracts prose bits from classic fiction, theater, and ancient gardening tomes and combines them with poems, recipes, his own pithy observations, and bits of horticultural lore to produce a charming literary amalgam for mulling over when the gardening spirit is subdued by winter weather or by sheer exhaustion from the constant cultivating, pruning, and fertilizing chores of summer's dog days. Alice Joyce