Dirt
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This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Author's Guild/BIP specs. Author Bio: Designer, writer, lecturer, and once-owner of four highly innovative fashion stores called Dianne B., Dianne Benson has been described as "A woman of fashion, a fabulous purveyor of words, stance, and attitude." She took up gardening with…
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Even though her heroine is Vita Sackville-West who, in the 1930s, created Sissinghurst, one of the world’s most visited gardens, I think of Benson as a hippy, outdoors version of Martha Stewart. In this paperback, her fast lane, quick gratification approach to gardening comes across with equal doses of humor as she emphasizes the joy of digging one’s hands into the soil and the importance of channeling one’s own aesthetic into hedge and plant choices. Her opinions are pithy, to say the least - she considers marigolds to be ‘hackneyed’ flowers; she talks about weeds having brains and calls the…
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