If you want a plot, skip this book! It is more a meditation on life lived with nature on Elizabeth's estate in northern Germany. She wants to spend the summer alone, without guests, absorbing the beauty of her garden, the fields and the woods, and thinking about Life. How alone one can be on ...
There's a castle in Italy. Wisteria grows there. Can you picture the private wilderness? The castle is not important. It is a fortress to protect the plants. Don't tread on me. More importantly, can you see yourself there? It's a little place unmolested and unpressed on by who you are in all of t...
Elizabeth and her German Garden is a semi-autobiographical book written in 1898 by Elizabeth von Armin (author of The Enchanted April) about her life and garden in the area of Nassenheide, Pomerania, where the family had their estate (her husband was minor nobility).Pomerania is an area in the no...