History, Discovery, and the Quiet Heroics of Gardening
Illustration by Beatrix Potter When people think of gardeners, many of them tend to picture little old ladies in straw hats with bright green gloves, pottering among the roses. When people think of gardeners who are also children’s book authors, they go straight to Beatrix Potter and assume that not only are these little old ladies in straw hats pottering among the roses, but they are also greeting the friendly woodland creatures by name—“Hello, Mister Robin! You’re looking very feathery today!” “Why, Missus Tiggywinkle, how have you been?” “Oh dear, that naughty little cotton...
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