Old Herbaceous

Book info: Old Herbaceous (Hardcover, 164 pages – Isis Large Print, 2002) – Isis Large Print, 2002. Language: Eng.

Delightful descriptions and characterizations enliven this tale of an old-time gardener in an English countryside garden and his love of plants. Old Herbaceous sat, propped amongst his cushions, by the cottage window, surveying the Manor gardens he'd so lovingly tended for so many years. Gardens! He let his thoughts wander through the scented past. He had started as a nobody, an abandoned baby found on the doorstep who, as a boy with a gammy leg and a passion for flowers, never seemed to fit in. But with tender mentoring and the luck of a prize at the flower show, young Herbert had become a somebody. Old Herbaceous traces his journey from young help to head gardener and although things were different than in his day, the world had started with a garden and things that old don't disappear so easily.