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You could spend a lot of money trying to keep slugs, rats, moles, rabbits, squirrels, deer, and other herbivores out of your garden. But most of those purchases would have little, if any, value, especially if feeding pressure is high in the surrounding habitat. Learn about the few options that are both safe and effective. And remember, "man's best friend" might be your garden's best friend, too.
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"The Garden Party and Other Stories" is a 1922 collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888—1923) was a modernist writer from New Zealand who produced poetry and short stories under the pseudonym Katherine Mansfield. She left New Zealand when she was 19 and relocated to England, where she became friends with a number of notable literary figures including D. H. Lawrence, Ottoline Morrell, and Virginia Woolf....
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Mary Lennox leaves India to live with her cold uncle in his dreary mansion in England. When Mary hears of a secret garden kept locked for ten years, she is determined to find it and tend it back to life. With the help of her uncle's sickly son and a boy who knows all about nature, Mary secretly transforms the garden - and all of their lives.
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With Over 100 Million Copies Sold, Victoria Holt is the Queen of Gothic Romance "I shall be back," he said "When?" "Perhaps sooner than you think." He took my face in his hands and looked at me; I thought he was going to kiss me, but he seemed to change his mind and suddenly, he was gone and I was alone in the autumn-scented garden. Dark Secrets. Lost Treasure. Delicious Scandal. Anna Brett fears she's doomed to be a governess to an English family...
8) Giant
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A young bride arrives at Reata Ranch from Virginia unprepared for the narrow-mindedness of the wealthy Texans.
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It began as a dinner-party contest: when Mark Twain and his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner criticized the deplorable quality of their wives' reading material, the two writers were challenged to come up with something more intriguing. Thus, for the only time in his career, Twain collaborated on a novel with another author. The title of their rollicking 1873 tale became synonymous with the rampant post—Civil War corruption of Washington, D.C., where...
18) The lost garden
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In which horticulturist Gwen Davis has fled the Blitz in London for a rundown estate in Devon as a volunteer with the Women's Land Army. There, she must organize a group of young women who are to grow food for the war effort. Posted on the estate as well is a Canadian regiment awaiting orders for the front. These 3 months together are a time of rural escape for them and a time of change for Gwen, who, for the first time, experiences true friendship,...
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