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melvatoo
Denton, TX
(Zone 7a)
March 23, 2009
01:53 AM Post #6306715
| It was worth the wait...thank you! |
Hemophobic
Kannapolis, NC
March 23, 2009
07:32 AM Post #6307021
| Carrie: What a delightful way to start my morning and my week! Makes me determined to get the book and read it again to my ggranddaughter (when she's old enough)!
Thank you. Your articles was as much a joy as the book itself!
Angie |
senlarrs
Harrisburg, PA
(Zone 6a)
March 23, 2009
07:39 AM Post #6307041
| Thank you for such a wonderful reminder of a beautiful story! It has been a long time!!
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carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
March 23, 2009
07:42 AM Post #6307052
| Thank you, ladies . . . Angie, that is just the response I was hoping for! We'll get another generation of TSG fans yet. Thank you all for reading.
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Hemophobic
Kannapolis, NC
March 23, 2009
07:48 AM Post #6307072
| Carrie: I will add that I always gave books for Christmas to nieces and nephews when they were growing up. One year I didn't and the protest was long and loud: "But Aunt Angie always gives us books!" One of the books I gave my nieces was "The Secret Garden."
I have been a bookworm all my life and my mission in life is to instill in my own family my love of books. I am never alone if I have a book!
Angie |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
March 23, 2009
08:18 AM Post #6307151
| Oh, I'm the same way with my grandchildren. I hardly ever get to see them, and they don't remember me very well, but I start reading them a story, and it's as if I never left. |
bbrookrd
nantucket, MA
(Zone 7a)
March 23, 2009
08:57 AM Post #6307290
| Carrie, You should get a commission for all the copies of The Secret Garden that you have inspired people to rush out and buy by the printing of your charming article. I must reread it and as my copy was destroyed when we had water damage a few years ago, I will seek out the old edition of it that I remember.
One of my regular customers at the Bookstore in Vt was Tasha Tudor. She was as thorny in demeanor as those tangled roses that grew up the walls in Burnett's Secret Garden. She was a wee bit of thing with a huge attitude. She had a band of devoted family and followers always in tow who were easy. Of course I loved her illustrations and became a fan of of her beloved dog breed after reading Corgiville Fair and then meeting a charming one of another customer, a certain dog called Miss Lucy.
But back to your article. It is delightful to see how the book has so inspired you to continue to cultivate the blooms that you so obviously and so vividly remember from your first reading of "The Secret Garden". Such a sweet connection from the well remembered pages of the gift book from your Grandmother to the currant dirt under your nails. Lovely.
Do you think that you and your DH would like to romp and roll through the Garden in the Woods this spring, and do we have a date for Lilacs at the Arboretum. Thanks, Patti |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
March 23, 2009
09:05 AM Post #6307322
| Gosh, Patti, you think they would give me a commission? Someone else (another writer) suggested I do a coffee table edition of the secret garden with big, glossy photos. I grew up with Tasha Tudor books whenever possible, although she is quoted as saying she just did illustrations for the money. My mother wanted my life to be like Becky's Christmas. |
bbrookrd
nantucket, MA
(Zone 7a)
March 23, 2009
09:15 AM Post #6307359
| She was a "sharp" business women. I think her family still run a business around her image and work in Marlboro Vt which is just over the mountain from our Vt house.
Maybe a Children's gardening book which is inspired by all the great gardens mentioned in children's books which combines the practical with the lit. Patti |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
March 23, 2009
09:16 AM Post #6307365
| All the Great Gardens. |
CapeCodGardener
Mid-Cape, MA
(Zone 7a)
March 23, 2009
10:08 AM Post #6307568
| Carrie, a lovely article with great photos. What an imaginative idea and just in time to inspire me to get out and get planting! Thank you!
I will ALWAYS remember my teacher, Miss Veatch, who for one lovely period of weeks read us fourth graders a portion of The Secret Garden everyday after lunch. How we loved that book and cherished that quiet time. I can still see my Southern California classmates, with even the rowdiest of us settled peacefully at our desks, some with our heads down, as we imagined the far-off worlds of India and a magical garden in the North of England.
Thank you for bringing back those memories. And I'm buying a copy right now to read to my young granddaughter.
Patti, interesting comments from you about Miss Tudor and her prickly temperament. I'd heard this. Not all children's book authors are warm and fuzzy! |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
March 23, 2009
10:21 AM Post #6307610
| Emily, what a dear memory of Miss Veatch! This article had 21 photographers, more photos than that, a whole lot of text, and still was a pleasure to write. I'm glad you enjoyed it! |
jamieos
Ridgefield, CT
March 23, 2009
10:51 AM Post #6307732
| What a beautiful presentation! The way you told a much longer story and used the flower photos was thrilling. My mother gave me this book - she was just 7 when it was first published, and later when I was in my teens, she and I and my little sister went to the movie - black and white all th eway through till the end when everything was in color. And dear Margaret O"Brian was the little girl.
Now I have my own secret garden - or in Italy Il Giardino Segreto - but the walls are of wood lattice - we do not have many stone-walled gardens in Connecticut - all that masonry is just too expensive. It was made on the ground of our former vegetable garden 50 feet square - with a summer house entrance and a pergola. And it too is somewhat wild and overgrown, especially by the end of summer.
Here are the photos of my garden through the years since the beginning http://jamieos.smugmug.com/Nature
And here is the beginning in 1993. Feel free to look around! Here's the earliest group of photos showing the garden bones: The Secret Garden in 1993 & Favorite Flower Photos (http://jamieos.smugmug.com/gallery/373226_Ran3D#14852516_FQb...).
Enjoy! |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
March 23, 2009
11:02 AM Post #6307767
| What a lovely garden!!!! (You should subscribe and join the North East Forum - and I don't get paid to say that. We have parties and visit each others gardens.)
I notice you don't restrict yourself to flowers that grew in the Yorkshire secret garden, which is probably wise. The climate there is allegedly as warm as maybe Georgia but without the hot, humid summers. Not like New England at least!
Thank you for sharing your garden and for your kind comment. |
irisMA
South Hamilton, MA
March 23, 2009
11:31 AM Post #6307884
| Carrie: a wonderful presentation. Our middle daughter was a great fan of the book, but grandaughters have found it 'too slow'. See what TVs & movies have done to them. Glad that you did the article & I'm sure it will help others discover it. |
KansasRose
Belleville, KS
(Zone 5b)
March 23, 2009
11:54 AM Post #6307986
| What a great article...I loved the Secret Garden as a child (and still do!) and I also love Tasha Tudor's illustrations. I've always wanted a secret garden, but live on a very flat prairie acreage...so the cascades of roses will probably never happen for me! But I haven't given up on a walled garden...we have lots of cut limestone from early pioneer houses and fences around here and someday my husband may give in and start building! |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
March 23, 2009
11:55 AM Post #6307993
| I hope so - thank you for your kind remarks. My daughters listened to it on tape on long car trips, then by the time they were ready to read it to themselves HARRY POTTER had taken over their hearts. (Sigh.) I hope this article redeems me for my missed opportunities with my own kids! |
Dinu
Mysore
India
(Zone 10a)
March 23, 2009
12:33 PM Post #6308202
| Very nice Carrie. At first browsing the length of the article, I wondered if I would go through fully, but when I began, I realized soon that I had already slipped through near the end. Wonderfully told. Yes, I had forgotten your request to use my pictures, but had I known I'd have suggested better pictures from my collection!! That would have deserved a place in such a finely written piece. Congratulations to you. |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
March 23, 2009
12:40 PM Post #6308240
| Thank you - they only needed to be bright red hibiscus (and I could probably swap some).
The dialect the author uses for the locals is charming to some people (like me), irritating for others (like my husband) and unintelligible altogether to my Spanish-speaking friend. (I'm trying to find her a translation. I don't think it will translate well.) I'm glad you made it though! Thank you for writing. |
