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title: "We Made a Garden (Modern Library Gardening) Paperback – February 19, 2002"
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# We Made a Garden (Modern Library Gardening) Paperback – February 19, 2002

**Brand:** margery fishmichael pollan
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- **What is this?** We Made a Garden (Modern Library Gardening) Paperback – February 19, 2002 by margery fishmichael pollan
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## Customer Reviews

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    A memoir of a sexist emotionally abusive relationship in the story of an amazing garden
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2017*

Aside from being the history of the development of a wonderful garden I found this book to be a disturbing memoir of a controlling husband and an unquestioned emotionally abusive marriage in a sexist era where the woman gained power by subterfuge.Walter deadheads roses, carelessly ignoring the trail of fallen blooms leaving Margery to pick them up like a servant. Walter cuts down her long awaited budding new  flowers with a scythe without consulting her and she thinks he is teaching her a important lesson about not experimenting with new plants.In spring Walter plants high growing pole climbing roses in a garden bed that Margery spent a cold, wet winter preparing alone for her favorite low growing plants. Walter "allows" her one clematis of her choosing and buys five of the color he wants to decorate the famous front door with their blue blooms.  He likes neat walk ways and she likes plants trailing over the edges which she plants after his death. In one scene they are putting in a paved walkway and she asks the workman for holes to be left for the small sprawling plants she loves. Water becomes furious and deems her greedy when she asks for "too many" and her holes are filled in with concrete. The sad thing is that she believes that she is greedy and that Walter is right.I know this book is from another time, but reading it gave me a stomach ache at Margery's acceptance of her domination. She is a horticulturist of high intellect and personal opinions living in a sexist world who found insidious ways to get her way. She constantly defers to Walter, rationalizing that since he is the more experienced gardener, he must be right, but she orders new plants in secret and fears his noticing their arrival at the door. Walter purchases gaudy dinner plate dahlias that she hates, leaving her  the work of meticulously planting, watering, digging up, cleaning and storing them. Margery takes her revenge, eventually letting all but a few die during their over wintering rest in the guest room.My husband thought the book was hysterical. I first read it aloud to him as a joke but the more I read the more I got upset. Margery and Walter disagree on hydrangea colors, she like pinks, he likes blues, so they buy all blues until he dies when she replaces them all with pink. I guess she did finally get her way.

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    Very good book
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 22, 2021*

Very good book

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    Gardening Classic
  

*by S***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 19, 2018*

A gardening classic, We Made a Garden details the creation of a cottage garden in the UK by Margery and her husband Walter.  She recounts everything from creating walls to trying to create a water garden.  She refers to plants by both their common and Latin names.  Some of the names have changed over time and there is a large list in the back giving both old and new names for reference.  I am a gardening novice, but have found that I really enjoy it.  However, I think this book would be more readily enjoyed by someone with quite a bit of gardening experience.  Not knowing many of the plants she lists made for some dull reading.  An edition with pictures would have kept my attention better.  Still, some of her advice is helpful, especially when she talks about deadheading and cutting plants back.  I am always afraid that I will kill my poor plants if I am too ruthless with my cutting.  I’m glad I read it, but I probably won’t read it again.

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