The Last Garden

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Let’s get specific about the numbers here. In the space of a few days, I bought over 500 box plants, north of 200 lavenders, probably a hundred or so assorted Mediterranean herbs, maybe 75 alliums, a few dozen Japanese anemones, fifty or so hellebores, twenty-odd foxgloves, because they’ll self-seed anyway, nineteen peonies (I have no idea why I went with nineteen, but it still feels right) and a respectable copse of trees. Venetia Smith is commissioned to design a garden at Highbury House. She finds the owners - her employers challenging. Brother of the owners breeds roses. Her designing a garden and him breeding some roses lead to a romantic relationship. These three women were easy to like, and I loved how the gardens were the main focus for all three of them. We also meet two other women who had something to do with the gardens and Highbury House. Each time we meet one of the women, we find a little more about the garden, their lives, and their connection to it all.

The Last Garden | Centre for Literacy in Primary Education - CLPE The Last Garden | Centre for Literacy in Primary Education - CLPE

It exists still, the last garden. As I write this, the philadelphus is in extravagant blossom, the cistus too. The showy bed that faces the road is at its best just now, dizzy with catmint and purple sage, and the roses—everywhere in the adoring sunlight there are roses. Introduce children to the topics of migration, war and the power of nature and gardens throughout history in a gentle, hopeful way with The Last Garden. These resources guide you through the picture book, with suggested questions, classroom activities and additional resources on the key topics. A little-known-but-soon-to-be-famous garden designer, Venetia Smith, specializes in long-neglected gardens. She is working to design elaborate gardens for famous Highbury House, a Downtown Abbey type home for British landed aristocrats. It never really leaves you, though. You know how you can tell? Because spring and summer are unbearable still. I told you about this, the thing with the seasons. You’d think it would get easier with age, but no. If anything, it gets worse. the title somewhat confuses me! Why "Last Garden"? " Lost" Garden may have been more suitable; and,England, 2021. Emma is commissioned to restore a historic garden at Highbury House. She strives for historical accuracy in re-creating a garden. And that’s the part I enjoyed the most in this story. The process of finding any kind of trace, a drawing or a picture, that would lead her in the right direction. The story is also consumed by her relationship with her parents. And her mom’s regret that Emma didn’t go to college. Instead, she took a course in garden design and opened her own company, which her mother doesn’t applaud as she doesn’t see it as having a stable life. Julia Kelly's captivating novel, The Last Garden in England, is as immersive as it is enchanting...Historical fiction at its very best." - Patti Callahan, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis The book highlights the way that the socioeconomic status of women has changed over the years by giving the reader a first hand look at some strong female protagonists.

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The dual timelines, a beautiful setting, compelling storyline that draws you in, and fascinating characters that I feel hold all the secrets to the past. I do know that I worked myself into the ground, in the weeks that followed. That’s not a figure of speech, by the way. I had to dig a lot of trenches – a form of physical labour for which I was manifestly no longer equipped – and sometimes I would have to lie down in them, to avoid falling over. Other times, I would fail to avoid falling over. I would go ahead and pass out.I’m sorry, I said. Not actually crying, because for some reason I couldn’t any more. That mechanism was gone. I’m so very sorry. Because it’s not a moment at all. Moments are ending in there. That’s how it works. Time and space have collapsed, are reconfiguring. There are new dimensions now, unfolding from this dark and pristine singularity. The gardens represent peace during times of turmoil and becomes a place of meditation through many generations. Eventually, fate draws all the women together. All plant life – and by extension, all life on earth – is sustained by sunlight. One day, billions of years from now, that light will vanish forever. In the meantime, to keep us on our toes, the solar system conducts an annual dress rehearsal. Every year, at midsummer, it starts turning down the dial.

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After 3 years, New Zealand based Alicia Merz breaks her silence with her 5th Birds of Passage album ‘The Last Garden’. Alicia doesn’t share much with the public, except through her music, and so this album offers a rare glimpse into her secret world. Lose yourself in a universe of minimalist soundscapes, reinvented shoegaze, and the words of a poet who all too well knows the cold loneliness of the dark, but can find the breathless beauty in it also. He sees himself again, as a child. Sees himself running. Through deep grass and hazed air, towards the bend of a river. It’s June and a blush suffuses everything, a gentle heat. I found the tale of the elaborate garden at Highbury House and its evolution over the decades to be interesting too. Not only its evolution, but the work going in to planting, tending and restoring it was fascinating to even a very amateur gardener such as myself. These English gardens are a fascinating piece of history in and of themselves. I've always been an admirer of gardens, so this novel appealed to me right away. The stunning cover also attracted my attention. Unlike many historical novels that feature a 'dual timeline', this one has a 'triple timeline' which the author skillfully weaves together.Then the last shot, from outside the office, through the glass. You see the guy shift a little in his seat. But he doesn’t slump, doesn’t hold his head in his hands. Not yet.