Frances Lincoln - The Bad Tempered Gardener by Anne Wareham

http://www.franceslincoln.co.uk/en/C/0/Book/2870/The_Bad_Tempered_Gardener.html

I  count myself privileged  to have met Anne Wareham and Charles Hawes in 2008 at their property

Veddw House Garden on the border of Wales and England.

See http://veddw.com/

In this day and age (in particular the U.K.) it is quite rare to find new gardens which elevate the craft into an art form. If Edwardian style borders are your kinda thing might I suggest you don't visit the place..BUT if fresh planting and design (and un-design) concepts tickle your  fancy then this is the place for you. (the short review..phew said Anne)  Now whats all this got to do about the above book you ask! Well a lot and much more.. Simply put.. what can you expect from a writer/reviewer/artist/website creator  http://thinkingardens.co.uk/ /bad tempered gardener and much more and thats only Anne i am talking about!

Charles is almost all the above http://veddw.com/gallery/ but adds Photographer to his repertoire and http://veddw.com/discovering-welsh-gardens/ a splendid book with writer Stephen Anderton.

Need i say more?

Anne tells it like it is so much better

"Gardening is talked-up housework that you have to do outside. It has everything in common with housework, even some of the tools. I have a vacuum cleaner that I use indoors and out since it sucks up wet as happily as dry. Gardening has a great deal of the same objective as housework and is mostly depressingly judged on the same criteria - is it neatandtidy and is it weed-free, alongside is it neatandtidy and is it dust-free?

Gardening is boring. It is repetitious, repetitive and mind-blowing boring, just like housework. All of it - sowing seeds, mowing, cutting hedges, potting up, propagating - is boring, and all of it requires doing over and over again. If there are enjoyable jobs they're mostly enjoyable for the result not the process.
There is no actual intellectual content to the task itself, even if there may be in the planning and designing. So, if there is something wrong in my world, if an editor has snubbed me or a call centre driven me round the bend, I find myself obsessing. I think we are supposed to be delighting in being out in the open air, communing with nature, but me, I'll be obsessing, writing rude letters in my head. Wishing I was sitting comfortably indoors writing rude letters."