Flowers from Old Adam’s Garden

If you haven’t yet met these peculiarities there is a treat in store for you as you join with Sarah in her diurnal struggles with possums, snails, bugs and blights, her family, a dog called Rumpole, a cat called She-who-must-be-obeyed and a much married blackbird – the full domestic disaster.

As you read you will learn much about plants (for Sarah is a plant person par excellence), gardening (for she is an experienced gardener) and plant history (for she is a repository of recondite plant lore).

Learn about species crocuses and a new Tasmanian breed of daffodil which combines perfect form with delicacy and a certain unusual sprightliness of manner; find out how to make a homebrew stone alpine trough and espalier camellias; relish the old names for violas and violettas and the story of the deaf (but devout) old knight who was responsible for the iris being dedicated to the virgin.