Green Grows the City
[Nichols'] fervent devotion to plants and the domestic landscape is inspiring and heartening.
Buffalo Spree Magazine
Anyone who has ever created a garden knows that it is a process replete with drama: there's the feverish excitement of drawing up plans and making lists of plants; the bleak depression of realizing that the plans will have to be altered; the "Eureka!" moment when a brilliant solution presents itself; the grim frustration of dealing with meddlesome neighbors and recalcitrant plants. For Beverley Nichols (1898–1983), making a new garden in a London suburb in the years just before World War II was positively operatic in its emotional trajectory. Fans of Beverley Nichols will find in Green Grows the City the same elements that have delighted them in his other books: the wit, the style, the cats, and of course Gaskin, gentleman's gentleman extraordinaire. Those new to Nichols are in for a rare treat.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 316 pp.
- Book dimensions: 5½ x 8 in. (205 x 140 mm.)
- Images: 10 b/w photos, numerous line drawings
- ISBN-10: 0881927791
- ISBN-13: 9780881927795
Media reviews
"[Nichols's] fervent devotion — albeit with touches of acerbic humor — to plants and the domestic landscape is inspiring and heartening."
—Elizabeth Licata, Buffalo Spree Magazine
About the author
Beverley Nichols
Beverley Nichols (1898–1983) was a prolific writer on subjects ranging from religion to politics and travel, in addition to authoring six novels, five detective mysteries, four children's stories, six autobiographies, and six plays. He is perhaps best remembered today for his gardening books.
Down the Kitchen Sink
A Thatched Roof