A New Leaf Growing with My Garden Author:Merilyn Simonds A graceful and sharply observed book of inspiration that uses the garden as its central muse — A New Leaf traces a year of growing seasons at The Leaf, Merilyn Simonds' acreage in eastern Ontario. A lifelong gardener, Simonds works the soil and the soul for wide-ranging revelations about everything from flowers that keep time, to the strange gift... more » of compost, to great gardens of the world, to things lost and found underground.
She is joined on her journey by a host of companions ? including her Beloved, who tills by her side; the Rosarian, who tends to both bud and thorn in roses and life; and the Frisarian, who weeds unwelcome visitors to make room for new growth. Intelligent and intimate, irreverent and elegant, A New Leaf offers a cornucopia of enrichment and inspiration for the fertile mind.« less