SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021 'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden' Daily Mail Marc Hamer has designed and nurtured 12 acres of garden for over two decades.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021 'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden' Daily Mail Marc Hamer has designed and nurtured 12 acres of garden for over two decades.
Marc Hamer was born in the North of England and moved to Wales over thirty years ago. After spending a period homeless, then working on the railway, he returned to education and studied fine art in Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. He has worked in art galleries, marketing, graphic design and taught creative writing in a prison before becoming a gardener. Both his books, A Life in Nature; or How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust have been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
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Prologue January White Beginnings Peppered Moth February Returning Ice Jasmine Another Gardener Climbing Hydrangea A Story Cyclops Code-breaker Wood Pigeon The Old North ‘I’m Here, Are You There?’ She Needs a Stick March Grass Sprouts, Trees Bud Cosmos March Frost Pruning Roses Snow Peonies Potatoes Rattle in a Pan Cherry Buds Appear The Middle Way Sparrows Begin to Nest Bees Daffodils Narcissus—Are You There? Minotaur April Distant Thunder A Vase of Cherries Dahlias Girlish Love Is . . . The Window Cleaner Tulpen Swifts Arrive Song World Sings A Broken Heart Mouse Mowing in the Rain Floating Islands May Peonies Bloom Gulls Rip Grass Holy Thorn Mercedes An Endless Stream of Days Fossils Night Scents Burning Books Sun! Heart Maybug Rain, No Rain June A Dumb Labourer Visits A New Path Cold Returns Solstice In Your Garden A Round of Applause Aphids July Stoics Wabi-sabi Pelargoniums Flying Ants Day Swifts Leave Pine Cones Carp Green Flames August Cofiwch Dryweryn (Coffee-ookh Dre-weh-rin) Umbellifers Fountain Cats and Dogs Distant Sounds Pond Scum Laurels A Break Gathering Seeds September The Waste Land ‘Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird’ The Many-Forking Path Colchicums Scything the Meadow Autumn Equinox October Go Now, Bonnie Boy October Mist Birthday Whisky Molecatcher Our Lady of the Flowers Apples First Snow November Hop-tu-Naa Frost Anemone to Zantedeschia The Great Riddle of the Self Haiku Gipsies The Lily Gardens Lifting Dahlias Leaving December We Barely Spoke, I Tell Myself . . . Back to Work The Floating World Home Flowers Postscript and Acknowledgements
Prologue January White Beginnings Peppered Moth February Returning Ice Jasmine Another Gardener Climbing Hydrangea A Story Cyclops Code-breaker Wood Pigeon The Old North ‘I’m Here, Are You There?’ She Needs a Stick March Grass Sprouts, Trees Bud Cosmos March Frost Pruning Roses Snow Peonies Potatoes Rattle in a Pan Cherry Buds Appear The Middle Way Sparrows Begin to Nest Bees Daffodils Narcissus—Are You There? Minotaur April Distant Thunder A Vase of Cherries Dahlias Girlish Love Is . . . The Window Cleaner Tulpen Swifts Arrive Song World Sings A Broken Heart Mouse Mowing in the Rain Floating Islands May Peonies Bloom Gulls Rip Grass Holy Thorn Mercedes An Endless Stream of Days Fossils Night Scents Burning Books Sun! Heart Maybug Rain, No Rain June A Dumb Labourer Visits A New Path Cold Returns Solstice In Your Garden A Round of Applause Aphids July Stoics Wabi-sabi Pelargoniums Flying Ants Day Swifts Leave Pine Cones Carp Green Flames August Cofiwch Dryweryn (Coffee-ookh Dre-weh-rin) Umbellifers Fountain Cats and Dogs Distant Sounds Pond Scum Laurels A Break Gathering Seeds September The Waste Land ‘Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird’ The Many-Forking Path Colchicums Scything the Meadow Autumn Equinox October Go Now, Bonnie Boy October Mist Birthday Whisky Molecatcher Our Lady of the Flowers Apples First Snow November Hop-tu-Naa Frost Anemone to Zantedeschia The Great Riddle of the Self Haiku Gipsies The Lily Gardens Lifting Dahlias Leaving December We Barely Spoke, I Tell Myself . . . Back to Work The Floating World Home Flowers Postscript and Acknowledgements
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