Book Review: Lady Mayo’s Garden

On May 1, 1891, Geraldine Mayo, of County Kildare in Ireland, armed herself with a stout pair of loppers and climbed a ladder—long skirts and all.  “I got on the top of the Yew hedge in the garden at the risk of my life..,” she wrote later, adding that the risky yet satisfying hedge pruning … Read more

Cleaning Up

Jane Austen introduced Pride and Prejudice with the line, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”  If Miss Austen wrote about gardening, she would certainly have said, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of … Read more