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Nachts, wenn der Garten blüht
Das Leben ist doch noch nicht vorbei ... Maggie, weit jenseits der Blüte ihrer Jahre und an den Rollstuhl gefesselt, hat jeden Gedanken an die Liebe längst verdrängt. Da begegnet ihr der Landschaftsgärtner Tristan, unter dessen Händen von vitaler Zärtlichkeit bald nicht nur ihre Pflanzen zu neuem Leben erwachen. Die Geschichte einer ergreifenden und ungewöhnlichen Liebesbeziehung und zugleich eine Reise durch zauberhafte reale und metaphorische Gärten.
239 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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February 17, 2014
Another beautiful find from the library. A gorgeously written novel that combines gardening with a golden years romance. The hero and heroine are 63 and 61 respectively and they find love through their common passion of gardening. A very bittersweet but quick and delightful read.
August 30, 2020
A warm, wonderful weekend read while, coincidentally, working on our own gardens and landscaping. How special to read a sensual, meaningful little book about sixty-year-olds.
November 26, 2007
this book took me by surprise, and i loved it. the environment made the delights in this book even more unlikely, and i'm not going to tell you anything more because i don't want to ruin a single bit of it. i picked it up because a jacket review said something about it being as good as young adult fiction, but for adults, and i agree - and it turns out that the author is actually a pseudonym of kathryn lasky, who looks to have written a metric ton of children's books. ... does "metric ton" even make any sense?
August 5, 2020
Posso dire che è un libro tenero che parla di una bella storia d'amore nata tra fiori e giardini. Tuttavia a me la storia è rimasta un pò lenta e per questo motivo ho impiegato tanto tempo nella lettura.
December 5, 2015
“Night Gardening” is a special find I will remember. Maggie recovers from a stroke and her ne’er-do-well children check-in on her. I don’t think her elderly. She and professional landscaper, Tristan, are sixty. An alcoholic husband with whom she never connected was wealthy, thus as a widow she lives comfortably. She, her Mother, and parish priest adored since childhood, “Monseigneur” built an exquisite, uplifting garden together. It is called a step garden, which unfolds onto differing terrains as if travelling to fresh places, each highlighting its own vegetation.
Kathryn Lasky brings you into Maggie’s confidences and what it’s like to practice speaking with a specialist. You learn the perseverance to isolate your thoughts and declare them aloud, following a stroke. You triumph with Maggie. When she observes her neighbour’s expensive landscaping project, grown trees float above her fence like a sky parade! You understand this revitalizing moment of joy to a plant-lover. She hasn’t had the capacity to tend her gardens. Tristan observes her predicament and marvels at her therapy achievements, recognizing a fellow-gardener. He surprises her with an uncovered stretch of her garden, weeded at night. As she recovers, a romance blooms and they rebuild her sanctuary.
There is suspense, when her money-desperate son attempts to nab her assets by declaring her incompetent. Her daughter proves trustworthy and sympathetic, as Maggie surprises everyone with her restored health. Many will relate to the novel’s unique array of circumstances and warm to this witty Irishwoman regardless. It’s satisfying when she fires a grumpy nurse she no longer needs. Kathryn’s colourful writing is riveting all along the way. Some realizations that dawn on Maggie resemble mysteries and the last chapters grow intense. It is her unique personal situation that captivates us. Had I liked the ending, this would easily have five stars.
Kathryn Lasky brings you into Maggie’s confidences and what it’s like to practice speaking with a specialist. You learn the perseverance to isolate your thoughts and declare them aloud, following a stroke. You triumph with Maggie. When she observes her neighbour’s expensive landscaping project, grown trees float above her fence like a sky parade! You understand this revitalizing moment of joy to a plant-lover. She hasn’t had the capacity to tend her gardens. Tristan observes her predicament and marvels at her therapy achievements, recognizing a fellow-gardener. He surprises her with an uncovered stretch of her garden, weeded at night. As she recovers, a romance blooms and they rebuild her sanctuary.
There is suspense, when her money-desperate son attempts to nab her assets by declaring her incompetent. Her daughter proves trustworthy and sympathetic, as Maggie surprises everyone with her restored health. Many will relate to the novel’s unique array of circumstances and warm to this witty Irishwoman regardless. It’s satisfying when she fires a grumpy nurse she no longer needs. Kathryn’s colourful writing is riveting all along the way. Some realizations that dawn on Maggie resemble mysteries and the last chapters grow intense. It is her unique personal situation that captivates us. Had I liked the ending, this would easily have five stars.
December 16, 2017
Plants and love are in Maggie’s life as she is recovering from a stroke. She is working with a landscape artist Tristan to achieve many gardens, all different. This brings out passion between Maggie and Tristan as the worked for perfection
August 15, 2014
This caught me by surprise for sure. My sister recommended it to me. Very good book, one that I still keep in my nightstand even now. Read this book in 2002.
July 26, 2020
"El romance que presenta esta historia me ha resultado encantador y, aunque no me ha convencido que no se le haya sacado más partido, he disfrutado de la lectura. Lo peor es que las descripciones de plantas y flores me hacían desconectar un poco. Si se hubiera ahondado más en determinadas escenas o situaciones, hubiera sido un libro perfecto".
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La puntuación real sería un 3,5/5, pero se la voy a dejar en un 3 y no en un 4 porque creo que es una pena que no se describieran mejor ciertos momentos. En mi caso, eso impidió que no me emocionara más.
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La puntuación real sería un 3,5/5, pero se la voy a dejar en un 3 y no en un 4 porque creo que es una pena que no se describieran mejor ciertos momentos. En mi caso, eso impidió que no me emocionara más.
June 13, 2014
I absolutely adored this reading experience! E. L. Swan aka Kathryn Lasky; took me on a magical journey of gardening, romance, and enduring love. The symbolism of rebirth was paralleled in the protagonist's life as well as the life of the forgotten garden being resuscitated. Pruning, planting, observing, standing still, breaking man-made rules and stereotypes, planting seedlings, and supporting fledgling love were topics encapsulated in this awesome story that encompassed only 215 pages.....I walked and loved with Maggie and Tristan... The author's insightful descriptions of Maggie's inner struggles as she rehabilitated from a stroke made me think that she knew the experience first hand. Her descriptions were so authentic. I loved pausing at the beginning of each chapter to become acquainted with a gardening philosophy.... it propelled me into a world I already loved, but moved me to it's deeper folds. I went out and purchased this novel and it sits beside my bed as a constant reminder to slow down in life, to sneak out and dance in the moonlight and to always appreciate the littlest element of green or the energy emitted from a rock..... to go looking in the moonlight for the nightshades that share their beauty for the night creatures... a time when I normally would be giving into sleep and missing the elegance. I encouraged my husband to experience this book. I told him it epitomized who I was as a person in book form.... He loved it too and was touched and inspired to create!
May 30, 2015
The story is very well written. As a parent of grown children, the book says a lot. I feel some of the intimate scenes do not have to be so intimate but I imagine to some readers it is an important aspect.
June 4, 2015
I read this when it was first released. Forget about fifty shades of beige! More readers will relate to the romantic story in this book than the other one. Made me want to plant lady slippers in my shade garden!
January 29, 2016
A lovely read about a 61 year old stroke victim and a gardener. A love of flowers and gardens certainly help to sustain the reader's interest
October 29, 2014
This one stuck with me.
Not listed in regional library catalog. Should be.
KIRKUS REVIEW
Children’s writer Kathryn Lasky becomes E.L. Swann to author this adult melodrama about declining families, thankless children, and, above all, blossoming love in the golden years. Maggie Welles is 61 when, working in the multileveled but badly neglected garden of her large house just off Harvard Square, she suffers a stroke. Widowed, spunky, and well-off, Maggie at 61 still has much of the beauty she possessed as a girl in Boston, where she grew up in a lace-curtain Irish family; and it’s this beauty—in her green eyes, for example, and once-red and still-abundant hair—that first attracts the eye and soon thereafter the heart of one Tristan Mallory, hyper-successful landscape artist to the very, very rich, himself 60, long divorced, and at the moment (since it’s spring) creating an elaborate new landscaped garden at the house next door. In a hint of Pyramus and Thisbe, Tristan peeks at Maggie through the crack in a garden wall as, in the woebegone garden on her side, she works with her speech therapist and does walking exercises at parallel bars. The mysterious attraction that the handsome Tristan feels for Maggie is intensified quickly when it’s discovered that both he and she are expert lovers of floral beauty and rarity (——Oh my goodness, Polymnia canadensis,” Maggie whispered—), and, under Mallory’s “care” as a gardener-lover (—He wanted only to submit himself completely to her rareness—), Maggie begins making great strides in recovering from the losses of her stroke; but, even as she and Tristan fix up her garden by night (and make love in it), the legacy of Maggie’s insensitive and alcoholic husband (who married her with no sense of her true rarity) intrudes in the form of her insensitive and alcoholic son, whose eager desire for his inheritance will prove itself the canker in the rose garden indeed. Many a stylistic stumble, a paper-thin male lead, and much horticulture aimed straight at the sentimental.
Not listed in regional library catalog. Should be.
KIRKUS REVIEW
Children’s writer Kathryn Lasky becomes E.L. Swann to author this adult melodrama about declining families, thankless children, and, above all, blossoming love in the golden years. Maggie Welles is 61 when, working in the multileveled but badly neglected garden of her large house just off Harvard Square, she suffers a stroke. Widowed, spunky, and well-off, Maggie at 61 still has much of the beauty she possessed as a girl in Boston, where she grew up in a lace-curtain Irish family; and it’s this beauty—in her green eyes, for example, and once-red and still-abundant hair—that first attracts the eye and soon thereafter the heart of one Tristan Mallory, hyper-successful landscape artist to the very, very rich, himself 60, long divorced, and at the moment (since it’s spring) creating an elaborate new landscaped garden at the house next door. In a hint of Pyramus and Thisbe, Tristan peeks at Maggie through the crack in a garden wall as, in the woebegone garden on her side, she works with her speech therapist and does walking exercises at parallel bars. The mysterious attraction that the handsome Tristan feels for Maggie is intensified quickly when it’s discovered that both he and she are expert lovers of floral beauty and rarity (——Oh my goodness, Polymnia canadensis,” Maggie whispered—), and, under Mallory’s “care” as a gardener-lover (—He wanted only to submit himself completely to her rareness—), Maggie begins making great strides in recovering from the losses of her stroke; but, even as she and Tristan fix up her garden by night (and make love in it), the legacy of Maggie’s insensitive and alcoholic husband (who married her with no sense of her true rarity) intrudes in the form of her insensitive and alcoholic son, whose eager desire for his inheritance will prove itself the canker in the rose garden indeed. Many a stylistic stumble, a paper-thin male lead, and much horticulture aimed straight at the sentimental.
June 19, 2015
Night Gardening by E.L. Swann
Cambridge, MA-Maggie Wells is recovering from a stroke, she's a widow. Her garden has gone by the wayside.
Tristan Mallory, the landscape architect gardens next door, during the light of the moon. His clients are rich women who have something in mind but want the famous gardens recreated in their backyards.
The Steins have hired him and he would be able to use his heavy equipment and blue slate he transports to this area.
Alternating chapters from each. He discovers her through the cracked wall and proceeds to help her with the physical therapy as he uncovers her sexuality. Turmoil comes in the form of her son who tries to take over her financial world...
Loved all the Latin names and their combined forces to create what was once at her garden.
I received this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.
Cambridge, MA-Maggie Wells is recovering from a stroke, she's a widow. Her garden has gone by the wayside.
Tristan Mallory, the landscape architect gardens next door, during the light of the moon. His clients are rich women who have something in mind but want the famous gardens recreated in their backyards.
The Steins have hired him and he would be able to use his heavy equipment and blue slate he transports to this area.
Alternating chapters from each. He discovers her through the cracked wall and proceeds to help her with the physical therapy as he uncovers her sexuality. Turmoil comes in the form of her son who tries to take over her financial world...
Loved all the Latin names and their combined forces to create what was once at her garden.
I received this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.
September 9, 2013
My husband asked me what I thought was the worst book I had ever read, and I told him this one. So, as someone who has no problem articulating how I feel about a book for story, plot, movement, language, writing style, etc., he asks me what is wrong with it and was shocked when I came back with "everything." So, he tried another tactic and asked what one word I would use to describe this book - "vomit."
What I can tell you is that it is trying to be "The Secret Garden" for adults...but it fails misarably. Read "The Secret Garden" instead.
It gets one star because it got published which at the time was a feat for any author before self-publishing.
What I can tell you is that it is trying to be "The Secret Garden" for adults...but it fails misarably. Read "The Secret Garden" instead.
It gets one star because it got published which at the time was a feat for any author before self-publishing.
June 18, 2019
Well researched and well written. Many references to beautiful flowers and plants that would make a garden a place of enchantment. Realistic characters and a story very poignant to the culture we live in .Our expectations of growing older and living with a disability. Children sometimes can't imagine that the lives of their parents can be exciting or that new persons can come into their lives. Although there wasn't a fairy tale ending, it was appropriate and the loose ends all tied up. The garden didn't disappoint. Very enjoyable read.
December 15, 2010
Not exactly a romance - the main characters are in their 60's, one has had a severe stroke - and there is too much talk about plants, gardening, alcoholic middle-aged children, and class in Boston (daughter of immigrants & son of monied WASPs) - for this to qualify as romance, I think. But it is a moving and beautiful story. Interestingly, Swann is a pseudonym for Newbery Honors winning author Kathryn Lasky.
May 8, 2011
We finished up Night Gardening yesterday. A delightful tale of a stroke victim who is befriended by a landscaper working on the property adjacent to her home.
The romance that ensues is richly flavoured with descriptions of all the wonderful plants that grow in her garden.
A page turner that not only gives a good story, but educates the reader with details about the growth of her large, multi-sectioned plots, including his home in New Hampshire and others he has worked on.
The romance that ensues is richly flavoured with descriptions of all the wonderful plants that grow in her garden.
A page turner that not only gives a good story, but educates the reader with details about the growth of her large, multi-sectioned plots, including his home in New Hampshire and others he has worked on.
August 20, 2009
Lots of great gardening factoids. If this had been "One Woman's Garden Journal" I would have liked it better. I DID like the fact that She and He found each other--- heck, it's a romance with good gardening on the sly.
April 17, 2015
A gentle, sensual story about a sixty-year old woman who faces rejuvenation in her life when her garden is rejuvenated. (To say more would rob you of discovering this 215-page gem written by Kathryn Lasky using the pseudonym E.L Swann.)
August 10, 2016
I loved the garden descriptions.
July 24, 2014
Beautiful descriptions of a step garden.
March 19, 2018
This is a deceptively simple story which deals with strokes, and how they can completely change the dynamics within a family.
November 20, 2019
I didn’t expect to love this book as much as I do. It would be perfect for my gArden book club but for the hot sex scenes? This book is one of those treasure finds unexpected and wonderful.
November 7, 2024
"A timeless tale of love and healing that proves it is never too late for romance.
"Within the shadows of night, in a grand old city. in a graceful neighborhood, there was a garden where lives would be changed and hopes renewed and two hearts forever restored.
"Maggie Flaherty Welles is a vibrant, sparkling, Irish-American widow whose feisty, determined spirit is matched only by her love of life. While she is recovering from a life-threatening illness, Maggie's passion lies in her beloved garden, now thrown into disrepair with the passing of time.
"When Maggie meets Tristan Mallory, the handsome landscape architect remodeling the garden next door, they begin a friendship that transforms them both, blossoming along with the exotic flowers in Maggie's garden that Tristan secretly tends to by the light of the moon. Brought together by a shared passion, Maggie and Tristan discover the sensuous pleasure of a relationship neither one had ever dared to imagine. Their romance gives proof to the restorative powers of love.
"Set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Night Gardening is an enchanting journey into a real and metaphorical garden. It is a story of love and healing that celebrates passion in all its forms in such a way that it will touch your heart and linger at the edge of your dreams."
~~front & back flaps
That's a lovely review, but it doesn't match my reaction to the book. It certainly is "a story of love and healing that celebrates passion in all its forms." It's a relatively slim novel at 207 pages, and the writing is certainly outstanding. The book is definitely a paean to finding love when one is older and recovering from a stroke that's rendered their left side relatively useless. The idea that someone like that, at her age and in her condition, could find emotional and physical love is wonderful -- indeed giving a sliver of hope to elderly single people.
The part that did resonate with me was Maggie's son trying to do an end run around her to have a guardian ad litem (GAL) (a person appointed by a court to look after and protect the interests of someone who is unable to take care of themselves) appointed so that he could take control of the two trust funds and the house she lives in, after he'd run through all his money. I'm afraid that actually happens in many cases, and unless the aged parent is as clear headed as Maggie was, the suit goes through and the aged p0arent is shuttled off to a care facility of some kind and the child (or children) feast themselves on the spoils.
But it didn't "touch my heart and linger at the edge of my dreams." Perhaps I'm too cynical of world-weary to completely believe in love that's out of the ordinary.
"Within the shadows of night, in a grand old city. in a graceful neighborhood, there was a garden where lives would be changed and hopes renewed and two hearts forever restored.
"Maggie Flaherty Welles is a vibrant, sparkling, Irish-American widow whose feisty, determined spirit is matched only by her love of life. While she is recovering from a life-threatening illness, Maggie's passion lies in her beloved garden, now thrown into disrepair with the passing of time.
"When Maggie meets Tristan Mallory, the handsome landscape architect remodeling the garden next door, they begin a friendship that transforms them both, blossoming along with the exotic flowers in Maggie's garden that Tristan secretly tends to by the light of the moon. Brought together by a shared passion, Maggie and Tristan discover the sensuous pleasure of a relationship neither one had ever dared to imagine. Their romance gives proof to the restorative powers of love.
"Set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Night Gardening is an enchanting journey into a real and metaphorical garden. It is a story of love and healing that celebrates passion in all its forms in such a way that it will touch your heart and linger at the edge of your dreams."
~~front & back flaps
That's a lovely review, but it doesn't match my reaction to the book. It certainly is "a story of love and healing that celebrates passion in all its forms." It's a relatively slim novel at 207 pages, and the writing is certainly outstanding. The book is definitely a paean to finding love when one is older and recovering from a stroke that's rendered their left side relatively useless. The idea that someone like that, at her age and in her condition, could find emotional and physical love is wonderful -- indeed giving a sliver of hope to elderly single people.
The part that did resonate with me was Maggie's son trying to do an end run around her to have a guardian ad litem (GAL) (a person appointed by a court to look after and protect the interests of someone who is unable to take care of themselves) appointed so that he could take control of the two trust funds and the house she lives in, after he'd run through all his money. I'm afraid that actually happens in many cases, and unless the aged parent is as clear headed as Maggie was, the suit goes through and the aged p0arent is shuttled off to a care facility of some kind and the child (or children) feast themselves on the spoils.
But it didn't "touch my heart and linger at the edge of my dreams." Perhaps I'm too cynical of world-weary to completely believe in love that's out of the ordinary.
September 2, 2020
"Nachts, wenn der Garten blüht" von E.L. Swann
Was für ein wunderbares Buch. Ich habe es heute morgen angefangen und in einem Rutsch durchgelesen.
Neugierig auf das Buch, war ich allein schon durch diesen Klappentext:
Das Leben ist doch noch nicht vorbei ... Maggie, weit jenseits der Blüte ihrer Jahre und an den Rollstuhl gefesselt, hat jeden Gedanken an die Liebe längst verdrängt. Da begegnet ihr der Landschaftsgärtner Tristan, unter dessen Händen von vitaler Zärtlichkeit bald nicht nur ihre Pflanzen zu neuem Leben erwachen. Die Geschichte einer ergreifenden und ungewöhnlichen Liebesbeziehung und zugleich eine Reise durch zauberhafte reale und metaphorische Gärten.
Ich weiss gar nicht so genau wo ich anfangen soll.
E.L. Swann entführt uns mit " Nachts, wenn der Garten blüht" in
eine wunderschöne Liebesgeschichte, die einfach nur lesenswert ist. Für mich war es heute eine kurzweilige Flucht aus dem Alltag in eine toll geschriebene und flüssig zu lesende Geschichte.
Die Hauptprotagonisten haben mir sehr gut gefallen, sind sie doch authentisch dargestellt und gerade mit Maggie habe ich mich sehr über ihre Fortschritte gefreut.
Auch Tristan hat mir gut gefallen in seiner sensiblen und charmanten Art.
Von Herzen gern vergebe ich eine klare Leseempfehlung und 5 Sterne !
Zum Inhalt:
Kurzbeschreibung
Es ist nie zu spät für die Liebe.
Maggie, eine noch immer beeindruckend schöne Frau, die seit einem Schlaganfall im Rollstuhl sitzt, hat mit dem Leben beinahe abgeschlossen. Bis Tristan Mallory, ein begnadeter Gartenarchitekt, der das Nachbargrundstück gestalten soll, sie auf ihrer Terrasse entdeckt. Um sie kennenzulernen, beginnt er nachts heimlich in ihrem Garten zu arbeiten. Eine magische Liebe entfaltet sich zwischen den beiden, der Neid und Missgunst ihrer Mitmenschen zunächst nichts anhaben können ...
Eine zeitlose, zauberhafte Liebesgeschichte, wunderschön erzählt.
Was für ein wunderbares Buch. Ich habe es heute morgen angefangen und in einem Rutsch durchgelesen.
Neugierig auf das Buch, war ich allein schon durch diesen Klappentext:
Das Leben ist doch noch nicht vorbei ... Maggie, weit jenseits der Blüte ihrer Jahre und an den Rollstuhl gefesselt, hat jeden Gedanken an die Liebe längst verdrängt. Da begegnet ihr der Landschaftsgärtner Tristan, unter dessen Händen von vitaler Zärtlichkeit bald nicht nur ihre Pflanzen zu neuem Leben erwachen. Die Geschichte einer ergreifenden und ungewöhnlichen Liebesbeziehung und zugleich eine Reise durch zauberhafte reale und metaphorische Gärten.
Ich weiss gar nicht so genau wo ich anfangen soll.
E.L. Swann entführt uns mit " Nachts, wenn der Garten blüht" in
eine wunderschöne Liebesgeschichte, die einfach nur lesenswert ist. Für mich war es heute eine kurzweilige Flucht aus dem Alltag in eine toll geschriebene und flüssig zu lesende Geschichte.
Die Hauptprotagonisten haben mir sehr gut gefallen, sind sie doch authentisch dargestellt und gerade mit Maggie habe ich mich sehr über ihre Fortschritte gefreut.
Auch Tristan hat mir gut gefallen in seiner sensiblen und charmanten Art.
Von Herzen gern vergebe ich eine klare Leseempfehlung und 5 Sterne !
Zum Inhalt:
Kurzbeschreibung
Es ist nie zu spät für die Liebe.
Maggie, eine noch immer beeindruckend schöne Frau, die seit einem Schlaganfall im Rollstuhl sitzt, hat mit dem Leben beinahe abgeschlossen. Bis Tristan Mallory, ein begnadeter Gartenarchitekt, der das Nachbargrundstück gestalten soll, sie auf ihrer Terrasse entdeckt. Um sie kennenzulernen, beginnt er nachts heimlich in ihrem Garten zu arbeiten. Eine magische Liebe entfaltet sich zwischen den beiden, der Neid und Missgunst ihrer Mitmenschen zunächst nichts anhaben können ...
Eine zeitlose, zauberhafte Liebesgeschichte, wunderschön erzählt.
September 2, 2017
Oh well, see this was a library book sale purchase and the idea of night gardening sounded very cool. And honestly, a romance that takes place in later years rather than someone in their early 20's seemed like a good thing too, so I bought it.
This either needed to be longer to draw our more with the characters with more detail or it needed to be much shorter. A short story rather than a short novel. There is clearly a talent for writing there, but this story just didn't work for me on multiple levels.
This either needed to be longer to draw our more with the characters with more detail or it needed to be much shorter. A short story rather than a short novel. There is clearly a talent for writing there, but this story just didn't work for me on multiple levels.
April 22, 2023
This is a stunning tale of gardens on one's land and gardens in one's soul.
It's never too late for love in this bittersweet story, never too late for a family to become a better unit. It's not too late for individuals to seek self-improvement, and it's not too late for learning to forgive.
I could read this beautiful book over and over. The message of love, healing in unusual forms, and learning to appreciate God's gift of flora is simply stunning.
It's never too late for love in this bittersweet story, never too late for a family to become a better unit. It's not too late for individuals to seek self-improvement, and it's not too late for learning to forgive.
I could read this beautiful book over and over. The message of love, healing in unusual forms, and learning to appreciate God's gift of flora is simply stunning.
September 21, 2024
Love blooms, and a secret garden comes to life, just as Maggie, struggles to come to life after a recent stroke. Meeting the wealthy neighbors landscape architect changes Maggie and gives purpose as she reclaims her life, love and garden. Her children have different ideas, but everything blooms and grows some in this story. Night Gardening is a romance and life reckoning that will plant a seed in your heart.
March 6, 2020
My Original Notes (1999):
Another good "fluff" book. A nice romance between two older gardeners. Lovely description of the garden and plants. Reminiscent of The Bridges of Madison County.
My Current Thoughts:
I have fond memories of this book and since I still own the ARC, I hope to read it again sometime this year. With only 225 pages, it's one I can easily read in a day or two.
Another good "fluff" book. A nice romance between two older gardeners. Lovely description of the garden and plants. Reminiscent of The Bridges of Madison County.
My Current Thoughts:
I have fond memories of this book and since I still own the ARC, I hope to read it again sometime this year. With only 225 pages, it's one I can easily read in a day or two.
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