Accidental Garden (PB) by Richard Mabey


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We consider our gardens private dominions, where we create the worlds we desire.  But they are also occupied by myriad organisms, each with their own life to lead. 

In this book, rooted in the daily dramas of his own garden in Norfolk, Richard Mabey presents a scenario in which nature becomes a partner, a 'gardener' itself. Against a background of disordered seasons, Mabey watches his 'accidental' garden reorganise itself. Ants sow cowslip seeds in the parched grass; moorhens take to nesting in trees; a spectacular self-seeded rose springs up in the gravel. Amid disordered seasons and climate change, things fall apart and new ecological marvels take form - a metaphor for the Earth itself.  This is Mabey at his finest: maverick, closely observant and with an unquenchable sense of wonder. 

'Mabey is an ecological ethicist and superb stylist'   Robert Macfarlane

'An enchanting meditative account of a garden and its lives'  Noreen Masud

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