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In Your Garden by Vita Sackville-West

In Your Garden by Vita Sackville-West

The season of reading about gardening

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May 27, 2025
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Our book today is In Your Garden, a collection of some of the gardening columns Vita Sackville-West wrote for the Observer from 1946 to 1961. Owing to the gardening passion that has governed England for a thousand years, the column was boisterously popular, generating sacks of mail after every installment. This little volume reprints columns from ’46 to 1950, and it was a hit that produced at least three sequels.

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