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Informationen zum Autor Alice Vincent is Features Editor at Penguin Books, having previously worked as a writer and editor on the arts desk of the Telegraph. After teaching herself to garden in 2014, Alice started to share her adventures in urban gardening through Noughticulture, a newsletter and Instagram account, as well as in a column for the Telegraph . She has since written for Gardener's World and Gardens Illustrated , appeared on Gardeners' Question Time, collaborated with Hunter, Finery, Monsoon and Seedlip, among others, and hosts workshops and a YouTube channel for Patch Plants. Her first book, How To Grow Stuff , was published in 2017. Rootbound was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. She lives in South London. @noughticulture | @alice_emily Klappentext A mixture of memoir, botanical history and biography in which the author considers the power bringing the outside in had for her across a difficult period given comfort and purpose through tending to pot plants and windowsill greenery. From the founder of Noughticulture, Rootbound explores how a whole new generation are discovering the power of plants Zusammenfassung LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE When she was a girl, Alice Vincent loved her grandfather's garden - the freedom, the calm, the beauty of it. Twenty years later, living in a tiny flat in South London, that childhood in the garden feels like a dream. When she suddenly finds herself uprooted, heartbroken, living out of a suitcase and yearning for the comfort of home, Alice starts to plant seeds. She nurtures pot plants and vines on windowsills and draining boards, filling her new space with green, and with each unfurling petal and budding leaf, she begins to come back to life. Mixing memoir, botanical history and biography, Rootbound examines how bringing a little bit of the outside in can help us find our feet in a world spinning far too fast. Inhaltsverzeichnis @alice_emily ...
