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Roses: a Celebration.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Ed. by Wayne Winterrowd. Oct. 2003. 256p. illus. index. Farrar/North Point, $30 (0-86547-661-6). 635.9.
Daisies may be delightful and carnations as charming as they come, but it's hard to imagine either of them inspiring volumes of rhapsodic prose extolling their virtues. This, it seems, is the exclusive purview of the rose, at least as far as Winterrowd is concerned, and he's brought together 32 distinguished gardeners and garden writers to honor their favorite rose in a captivating collection of essays, exquisitely complemented by Pamela Stagg's sumptuous ...
- Henry Mitchell, This Bud's for You
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Joost Polak June 12, 1994 700+ words
Henry Mitchell's children are going out into the world. They - all 215 of them...clones, lovely or not, are just more of the same; this was not the Henry Mitchell approach to gardening. Clutching a copy of a Salem, Ore., iris...
- Henry Mitchell on Gardening.
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Segall, Vivian June 5, 1998 700+ words
...natural disasters that must go into making a garden. The late Henry Mitchell, a Washington Post reporter, wrote his weekly "Earthman" column for the Post for twenty years; Henry Mitchell on Gardening is the final of three collections of these...
- Henry Mitchell, Remembered In Flowers
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Adrian Higgins September 22, 1994 700+ words
Henry Mitchell, the Washington Post garden columnist who died last year, will be remembered at a gathering Sept. 24 at the National Arboretum...
- Rev. Henry Mitchell, Community Activist
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times November 2, 1994 700+ words
Visitation for the Rev. Henry Mitchell, an outspoken West Side church leader and community activist, will be from 1 to 9 p.m. Friday at Greater Gallilee Missionary...
- Henry Mitchell's Plane Crash Theories
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post January 10, 1989 700+ words
I don't know how to explain Henry Mitchell's Dec. 30 column {Style}. While its headline, "Plane Crashes and Questions of Security," promised a certain coherence...
- HENRY MITCHELL
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post HENRY MITCHELL April 29, 1988 700+ words
Lady Walton, Looking Back on a Dream Lady Walton had the most tiresome time with her libel lawyers. You know what they're like, of course. "You can't say that," they would say. "But why not? He makes no secret of all his good-looking boyfriends." Then she had another kind friend, besides the libel
- HENRY MITCHELL Series Number: THE BLOOM IS OFF THE TOURISTS
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post HENRY MITCHELL March 31, 1989 700+ words
Welcome tourists, I say. You can always tell when spring comes in Washington. The chief sign is not, of course, the song of the mockingbird or the sighting of a Camberwell Beauty fluttering through the garden, but the jammed subway train. Only yesterday morning there were people standing in a
- The mighty spruce: when glistening with snow, the graceful silhouettes of these...
- Magazine article from: Country Living Gardener Ogden, Lauren Springer December 22, 2004 700+ words
...be left with a desolate. dry brown area to contend with beneath the tree. * Spruces offer many compact and slow-growing selections that will not outcompete companion shrubs, small trees, and perennials. TEXT BY LAUREN SPRINGER OGDEN
