Allen Lacy, a philosphy professor and writer, gardens in New Jersey.
Unfortunately, writers of garden articles do not understand this.
She writes in genteel, refined tones — in part because many writers make gardening seem so arduous "that we can discourage people from doing it at all".
After four years there he worked for a number of private nurseries, and started to build up a reputation as a writer on garden design and restoration.
She wanted a writer's garden, so she put in a wooden chair, a desk, the bones of a floor lamp.
Noel Kingsbury, environmental writer and garden designer, has just published his hymn to the narcissi family, Daffodil: The Remarkable Story of the World's Most Popular Spring Flower (£17.99, Timber), which makes it clear just how very Cornish the daffodil story is.
From Christian Louboutin's home in Luxor, Egypt, to the Italian writer and garden designer Umberto Pasti's home in Tangier, click through the slide show to see highlights from the book.
Perhaps that, along with the love of Austen's novels, is what's driving so many dear readers to be laid to rest (or, to put it more bluntly, furtively dumped) in the writer's garden.
But for Kathryn Adisman, a local writer, Vegetable Garden is still there as a memory: the place where she used to buy canned sardines in olive oil from the Portuguese-born owner, whose family bought the store in 1966.
Two dauntless women sprouted up to join the Sunflower Mural project: writer and garden teacher, Kirsten Neff and muralist and art teacher, Laurie Marshall, founder of www.unitythroughcreativity.net.net
