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Seedtime and Harvest: How Gardens Grow Roots, Connection, Wholeness, and Hope
Seedtime and Harvest is a series of lyrical essays exploring the myriad ways that gardening deepens our understanding of the natural world and grows our capacity for care and connection. *** “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22). All the earth is a garden—full of beauty and decay, untimely ends and new beginnings, promises and possibilities. You are invited to treasure these beautiful reflections on the soul-healing gifts the garden graciously yields, revealing that gardening can be more than a hobby—it can be embraced as a way of life. <!--EndFragment --> As you explore how the garden grows roots, connection, wholeness, and hope, you’ll gain greater perspective on what matters most in life.
208 pages, Hardcover
Published March 5, 2024
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About the author
Christie Purifoy
9 books281 followersMy name is Christie Purifoy. I am a writer and gardener who loves to grow flowers and community.
I am the author of two memoirs, Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons (Revell 2016) and Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace (Zondervan 2019). Garden Maker: Growing A Life of Beauty and Wonder With Flowers releases in January 2022 from Harvest House Publishers.
A decade ago, I earned a PhD in English Literature from the University of Chicago, but eventually I traded the classroom for an old Pennsylvania farmhouse called Maplehurst. I still love to teach, but today I teach virtually and for small groups here at the Maplehurst Black Barn.
Each Wednesday, I join my long-time friend and fellow writer, Lisa-Jo Baker, for storytelling and conversation on a new episode of the Out of the Ordinary podcast. We believe that the very best stories grow out of the soil of ordinary life.
Lisa-Jo and I, along with a whole host of others, are turning social media’s usual ways upside down through quiet, weekly rhythms of listening, sharing, and celebrating in a virtual gathering place called the Black Barn Online. You are invited to join us in helping to build a place where art and faith cultivated in community can take root, flourish, and grow.
I am the author of two memoirs, Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons (Revell 2016) and Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace (Zondervan 2019). Garden Maker: Growing A Life of Beauty and Wonder With Flowers releases in January 2022 from Harvest House Publishers.
A decade ago, I earned a PhD in English Literature from the University of Chicago, but eventually I traded the classroom for an old Pennsylvania farmhouse called Maplehurst. I still love to teach, but today I teach virtually and for small groups here at the Maplehurst Black Barn.
Each Wednesday, I join my long-time friend and fellow writer, Lisa-Jo Baker, for storytelling and conversation on a new episode of the Out of the Ordinary podcast. We believe that the very best stories grow out of the soil of ordinary life.
Lisa-Jo and I, along with a whole host of others, are turning social media’s usual ways upside down through quiet, weekly rhythms of listening, sharing, and celebrating in a virtual gathering place called the Black Barn Online. You are invited to join us in helping to build a place where art and faith cultivated in community can take root, flourish, and grow.
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March 18, 2024
I will never not read Christie Purifoy's writing. She is one of the more impactful writers in my life and her books are beautiful and despair fighting. They've helped me more times than once sow proverbially and literally into the space I'm in. This book is the 3rd of a trilogy and it's equally as beautiful and helpful as the first.
March 14, 2024
A beautiful book for the home. Great conversation starter, easy to flip through, and written with care and intention. I also adore the tips on what plants to grow and things to admire about these plants—some I’ve not considered before! Christie writes about the garden as I imagine it when I’m out there. It’s so nice to read a kindred’s words on this holy space.
May 11, 2024
No lengthy words just: beauty, soulful, grounded, and thought proving.
All in a gardening book. ❤️
All in a gardening book. ❤️
July 30, 2024
Such a beautiful and hope-filled book! It makes me eager for the weekend rain to end so I can get back out there.
Last fall, my children and I dug out the sod in part of our front yard to extend garden beds filled with groundcover in our quest to gradually eliminate the lawn (thanks, John Gidding!). In its place, I transplanted tiny starts of vinca minor (otherwise known as myrtle or periwinkle), pachysandra, and three fiddlehead ferns, along with a river birch and a couple of dappled willows.
And then winter came.
I know, rationally, that the fall is a great time to plant perennials and trees because plants can focus all of their energy on establishing roots during the winter months. But still, for months my garden bed looked dead. The birch looked dead. The willows looked dead. And where the lawn used to be there were only mulched leaves blown to cover the soil.
The earth and soil have warmed now, and I’ve been eyeing my front bed for weeks, annoyed at how many weeds I can see. It turns out that we didn’t pull up all of the grass. So yesterday, I spent part of the day getting up close and personal with the dirt in that patch of land, and between the dandelions and grass and other springy weeds whose seeds dispersed all over the place when I pulled them, I found vinca minor starts, everywhere, already spreading. And then, then! overnight, the fiddlehead ferns sprung up! And leaves have filled out on the willows, and branches are already growing taller on the birch, and it turns out that the life I started that looked like it had died off all winter actually persists and even spreads in my little garden bed.
This little 10×10 work-in-progress is my current delight, my garden bed filled with rich metaphors, ripe for the plucking.
My little project is actually an extension of a much older gardener’s vision on our property, one of which I’m the benefactor. Whoever built and landscaped around our house decided not to do battle with the woods but instead to embrace the shade. When I work in the soil around our property, I am keenly aware that someone who loves this place also loves these plants, and I harvest daily the work of their hands. The mature Japanese maple growing in front of our main entrance and the towering maple that provides so much shade all came long before me. The rhododendron next to the garage that is as tall as our house now could only be this way because someone decided to plant a couple small bushes sometime in the last 70 years.
And now it’s all here, continuing to grow.
Whether we’re aware of it or not, plants and gardening connect us to each other.
I have been reading Christie Purifoy’s beautiful book, Seedtime and Harvest while all of this has been going on in my front yard, and I can think of no better companion while the work I did last fall comes back to life without any help from me.
Purifoy writes in the introduction, “Your pots of herbs on the windowsill may seem isolated and small, but they are a link with your neighbor’s tomato bed, which is a link with the community garden, and a link to the forest preserve, the botanical garden, the organic farm—all of them joining up to wind the earth round in green ribbons of life. From seedtime to harvest and back again, the reconciling work of a garden is never finished, always, ongoing, and, in every season, eager for us to join in and receive the more that is our heart’s desire.”
That line, “From seedtime to harvest,” which inspires the title of Purifoy’s book, comes from Genesis 8:22, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
It is the truth; the work of the garden doesn’t stop once the leaves fall and the vines die back. Life persists in the soil, underground. Each season is given to us for its purpose, sometimes to put down roots, sometimes to stretch and grow, sometimes to plant, sometimes to harvest.
Purifoy’s book blends lyrical reflections on our garden lives with practical advice about types of plants and ways of gardening, and every page is paired with stunning images from the garden to inspire and celebrate the beauty of creation. The book is organized into four parts—how gardens grow roots, how gardens grow connection, how gardens grow wholeness, and how gardens grow hope.
I connected with so much of Purifoy’s book, but the very first chapter hooked me right away—this is a woman who gets me, I thought. “The Ghost in My Garden” reflects on Dorothy, the woman who planted heirloom roses generations before Christie and her family moved into the Victorian farmhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania. I thought of Purifoy’s “ghost” while I weeded around my infant groundcover transplants, both because some “Dorothy” started these beds at my home long before I came along and also because, like Purifoy, I am a transplant to this property myself, the benefactor of former gardeners.
As much as we’d like to deny it, we are all inextricably tied to the past and connected to each other. Gardening reminds us of this truth and re-roots us, re-grounds us, and reconnects us in a very tangible way to each other, to our planet, and to our history.
My effort to get rid of our lawn is rooted in several desires—first, to try to return more and more of our property to a more natural landscape; second, to rely less on lawn mowing; third, to grow more plants we can eat; fourth, to nurture beauty; fifth, to live out of abundance and share with our neighbors, both human and non-human; sixth, to spend more time creating and cultivating a space of sanctuary outdoors.
Purifoy reflects on some of these same urges in her chapter on “The Art of Wildness”:
Because the world has changed (or rather, because we have changed the world), our culture of gardening must change. Even our definition of sanctuary must shift. The word sanctuary comes from a Latin word for a container used to keep holy objects or cherished things, even cherished people. Today, then, our gardens cannot function as true sanctuaries if we tend them in ways that keep life out. If we cherish birds and bees and butterflies—and children!—as well as green leaves and flowers and waving grasses, then our gardens should be containers for all these. In so many ways the world we have made has become hostile to life. When we garden, we have the opportunity to create places where life is nurtured. If we allow our gardens to become a little messier, a little wilder, then paradoxically we’ll find it that much easier to discover what the poet Wendell Berry has called the ‘peace of wild things.’ And where there is peace, there is hope.
That is, ultimately, the same roots I hope to nurture, in my gardens and in my life—peace and hope. Perhaps alongside Purifoy, we can all embrace a little more space to nurture life that is a little messy and a little wild in pursuit of growing peace and hope.
Review originally published on Root & Vine: https://rootandvine.com/rv-reflection...
Last fall, my children and I dug out the sod in part of our front yard to extend garden beds filled with groundcover in our quest to gradually eliminate the lawn (thanks, John Gidding!). In its place, I transplanted tiny starts of vinca minor (otherwise known as myrtle or periwinkle), pachysandra, and three fiddlehead ferns, along with a river birch and a couple of dappled willows.
And then winter came.
I know, rationally, that the fall is a great time to plant perennials and trees because plants can focus all of their energy on establishing roots during the winter months. But still, for months my garden bed looked dead. The birch looked dead. The willows looked dead. And where the lawn used to be there were only mulched leaves blown to cover the soil.
The earth and soil have warmed now, and I’ve been eyeing my front bed for weeks, annoyed at how many weeds I can see. It turns out that we didn’t pull up all of the grass. So yesterday, I spent part of the day getting up close and personal with the dirt in that patch of land, and between the dandelions and grass and other springy weeds whose seeds dispersed all over the place when I pulled them, I found vinca minor starts, everywhere, already spreading. And then, then! overnight, the fiddlehead ferns sprung up! And leaves have filled out on the willows, and branches are already growing taller on the birch, and it turns out that the life I started that looked like it had died off all winter actually persists and even spreads in my little garden bed.
This little 10×10 work-in-progress is my current delight, my garden bed filled with rich metaphors, ripe for the plucking.
My little project is actually an extension of a much older gardener’s vision on our property, one of which I’m the benefactor. Whoever built and landscaped around our house decided not to do battle with the woods but instead to embrace the shade. When I work in the soil around our property, I am keenly aware that someone who loves this place also loves these plants, and I harvest daily the work of their hands. The mature Japanese maple growing in front of our main entrance and the towering maple that provides so much shade all came long before me. The rhododendron next to the garage that is as tall as our house now could only be this way because someone decided to plant a couple small bushes sometime in the last 70 years.
And now it’s all here, continuing to grow.
Whether we’re aware of it or not, plants and gardening connect us to each other.
I have been reading Christie Purifoy’s beautiful book, Seedtime and Harvest while all of this has been going on in my front yard, and I can think of no better companion while the work I did last fall comes back to life without any help from me.
Purifoy writes in the introduction, “Your pots of herbs on the windowsill may seem isolated and small, but they are a link with your neighbor’s tomato bed, which is a link with the community garden, and a link to the forest preserve, the botanical garden, the organic farm—all of them joining up to wind the earth round in green ribbons of life. From seedtime to harvest and back again, the reconciling work of a garden is never finished, always, ongoing, and, in every season, eager for us to join in and receive the more that is our heart’s desire.”
That line, “From seedtime to harvest,” which inspires the title of Purifoy’s book, comes from Genesis 8:22, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
It is the truth; the work of the garden doesn’t stop once the leaves fall and the vines die back. Life persists in the soil, underground. Each season is given to us for its purpose, sometimes to put down roots, sometimes to stretch and grow, sometimes to plant, sometimes to harvest.
Purifoy’s book blends lyrical reflections on our garden lives with practical advice about types of plants and ways of gardening, and every page is paired with stunning images from the garden to inspire and celebrate the beauty of creation. The book is organized into four parts—how gardens grow roots, how gardens grow connection, how gardens grow wholeness, and how gardens grow hope.
I connected with so much of Purifoy’s book, but the very first chapter hooked me right away—this is a woman who gets me, I thought. “The Ghost in My Garden” reflects on Dorothy, the woman who planted heirloom roses generations before Christie and her family moved into the Victorian farmhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania. I thought of Purifoy’s “ghost” while I weeded around my infant groundcover transplants, both because some “Dorothy” started these beds at my home long before I came along and also because, like Purifoy, I am a transplant to this property myself, the benefactor of former gardeners.
As much as we’d like to deny it, we are all inextricably tied to the past and connected to each other. Gardening reminds us of this truth and re-roots us, re-grounds us, and reconnects us in a very tangible way to each other, to our planet, and to our history.
My effort to get rid of our lawn is rooted in several desires—first, to try to return more and more of our property to a more natural landscape; second, to rely less on lawn mowing; third, to grow more plants we can eat; fourth, to nurture beauty; fifth, to live out of abundance and share with our neighbors, both human and non-human; sixth, to spend more time creating and cultivating a space of sanctuary outdoors.
Purifoy reflects on some of these same urges in her chapter on “The Art of Wildness”:
Because the world has changed (or rather, because we have changed the world), our culture of gardening must change. Even our definition of sanctuary must shift. The word sanctuary comes from a Latin word for a container used to keep holy objects or cherished things, even cherished people. Today, then, our gardens cannot function as true sanctuaries if we tend them in ways that keep life out. If we cherish birds and bees and butterflies—and children!—as well as green leaves and flowers and waving grasses, then our gardens should be containers for all these. In so many ways the world we have made has become hostile to life. When we garden, we have the opportunity to create places where life is nurtured. If we allow our gardens to become a little messier, a little wilder, then paradoxically we’ll find it that much easier to discover what the poet Wendell Berry has called the ‘peace of wild things.’ And where there is peace, there is hope.
That is, ultimately, the same roots I hope to nurture, in my gardens and in my life—peace and hope. Perhaps alongside Purifoy, we can all embrace a little more space to nurture life that is a little messy and a little wild in pursuit of growing peace and hope.
Review originally published on Root & Vine: https://rootandvine.com/rv-reflection...
March 5, 2024
Christie continues to weave lessons for growth as a human in community and in relationship with her lessons on growing a garden in her works. This book is a beautiful, helpful, hopeful conclusion to her garden “trilogy” of gorgeous books. Her writing is the only inspiration that could ever induce me to keep trying to grow things here in our almost-eight-months-of-winter growing season. She uses plants to teach lessons on spiritual life, seeing the world in a holistic way, how to nurture our lives and relationships in ways that will feed future generations and contribute goodness and beauty to our worlds, starting with soil and seed and growing all kinds of deep life. Her words are soul food and light and water, worth digging your hands into and sitting for while with.
December 19, 2024
Christie Purifoy strikes again.
This book was a breath of fresh air in an era of technology and monotony and utility. Christie beckons us back out to the world and inspires us into gardening not just for the beauty of it all but for the meaning under it all, the hope of it all, the pain of it all, and the joy of it all.
“After all, it isn’t certainty or guarantees that make the ground beneath our feet firm. It is love.”
This book was a breath of fresh air in an era of technology and monotony and utility. Christie beckons us back out to the world and inspires us into gardening not just for the beauty of it all but for the meaning under it all, the hope of it all, the pain of it all, and the joy of it all.
“After all, it isn’t certainty or guarantees that make the ground beneath our feet firm. It is love.”
January 17, 2025
Another beautiful collection of essays and photographs. I found the themes of seasons and beauty to be profoundly hopeful.
April 4, 2024
Simple, perfect garden-hearted readings. This book was a gift!
March 8, 2024
Seedtime and Harvest is the third and final instalment in Christie Purifoy’s coffee table gardening book trilogy. Whether you’ve read the previous two books or not, you’ll be reminded of the truths gardens hold - that gardens grow roots, connection, wholeness and hope.
Following the same pattern as Garden Maker and A Home in Bloom, Seedtime and Harvest includes mini chapter essays full of lyrical prose, practical tips and gardening suggestions sprinkled amongst stunning spreads of self captured shots of the Maplehurst gardens!
Following the same pattern as Garden Maker and A Home in Bloom, Seedtime and Harvest includes mini chapter essays full of lyrical prose, practical tips and gardening suggestions sprinkled amongst stunning spreads of self captured shots of the Maplehurst gardens!
March 19, 2024
Happy first day of spring! 🌱🌸🌱 The first day of spring feels like a perfect time to share about Christie Purifoy’s new book Seedtime and Harvest with you. 🥰
This lovely book is a collection of essays about gardening, and at the end of each essay there are practical suggestions—what to plant related to each essay’s content, numerous gardening tips and suggestions, and all sorts of gardening wisdom from Christie, a seasoned and thoughtful gardener. There are gorgeous, full color photos throughout the book, and it would make the perfect Mother’s Day gift for anyone who enjoys gardening or considers themselves a plant lady. I do not consider myself much of a gardener, yet I LOVE that Christie is not one bit snobbish about gardening and includes even me with my little houseplants and herbs and backyard flowers as a gardener. Her writing is a delight for all of us.
🌱 “A longing for Eden—for paradise—is buried deep in every human heart. Some are more aware of ‘paradise lost’ than others. For these, the weedy and overgrown vegetable beds in a corner of the backyard are not the sign of failure they first appear to be. Rather, they suggest that someone has listened to her heart. Someone has sought a good and right connection with the natural world. Others may be less aware that anything of importance is missing from their lives. Convinced they were born with black thumbs, they ignore the houseplants for sale at the supermarket…However, gardening is no mere hobby. It is not a pastime intended only to help us ‘pass the time.’ Gardening is a way of life, and as a way of life, it can cure so much that ails us” (10).
🌱 “Gardens grow much more than plants: gardens grow life…when we care for a garden, we are caring for our own selves, and we are caring for the entire green and blue jewel that is the garden of planet Earth. Your pot of herbs on the windowsill may seem isolated and small but they are a link with your neighbor’s tomato bed, which is a link with the community garden, and a link to the forest preserve, the botanical garden, the organic farm—all of them joining up to wind the earth round in green ribbons of life” (18).
This lovely book is a collection of essays about gardening, and at the end of each essay there are practical suggestions—what to plant related to each essay’s content, numerous gardening tips and suggestions, and all sorts of gardening wisdom from Christie, a seasoned and thoughtful gardener. There are gorgeous, full color photos throughout the book, and it would make the perfect Mother’s Day gift for anyone who enjoys gardening or considers themselves a plant lady. I do not consider myself much of a gardener, yet I LOVE that Christie is not one bit snobbish about gardening and includes even me with my little houseplants and herbs and backyard flowers as a gardener. Her writing is a delight for all of us.
🌱 “A longing for Eden—for paradise—is buried deep in every human heart. Some are more aware of ‘paradise lost’ than others. For these, the weedy and overgrown vegetable beds in a corner of the backyard are not the sign of failure they first appear to be. Rather, they suggest that someone has listened to her heart. Someone has sought a good and right connection with the natural world. Others may be less aware that anything of importance is missing from their lives. Convinced they were born with black thumbs, they ignore the houseplants for sale at the supermarket…However, gardening is no mere hobby. It is not a pastime intended only to help us ‘pass the time.’ Gardening is a way of life, and as a way of life, it can cure so much that ails us” (10).
🌱 “Gardens grow much more than plants: gardens grow life…when we care for a garden, we are caring for our own selves, and we are caring for the entire green and blue jewel that is the garden of planet Earth. Your pot of herbs on the windowsill may seem isolated and small but they are a link with your neighbor’s tomato bed, which is a link with the community garden, and a link to the forest preserve, the botanical garden, the organic farm—all of them joining up to wind the earth round in green ribbons of life” (18).
November 8, 2025
“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
(Genesis 8:22)
I’ve been slowly making my way through all of Christie’s books, and every time I open one, I’m filled with such joy. She writes in a way that paints such vivid pictures, even if the pages didn’t include photographs, I would still be able to see everything in my mind. But the beautiful photos she includes only add to the experience.
I’ve always believed that gardening and nature are full of life lessons, and Christie captures that so well in this book. She weaves together Bible verses, quotes, personal stories, and thoughtful insights that remind us how even the simplest day to day moments in the garden can hold deeper meaning when we take the time to pause and reflect.
A few quotes I tabbed:
" It matters less where we live; what matters most is how we live in each place."
"We are fragmented people in a fragmented world, but we do not feel made for fragmentation. No matter the form of our religion, no matter the shape of our spiritual lives, we long for a mode of being and relating in which the puzzle pieces fit, in which the picture - whatever exactly it depicts - is beautiful."
"How do we grow whole gardens? We ask ourselves not what others expect of us, but what we truly love."
I've received a complimentary copy. This review reflects my honest opinion.
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
(Genesis 8:22)
I’ve been slowly making my way through all of Christie’s books, and every time I open one, I’m filled with such joy. She writes in a way that paints such vivid pictures, even if the pages didn’t include photographs, I would still be able to see everything in my mind. But the beautiful photos she includes only add to the experience.
I’ve always believed that gardening and nature are full of life lessons, and Christie captures that so well in this book. She weaves together Bible verses, quotes, personal stories, and thoughtful insights that remind us how even the simplest day to day moments in the garden can hold deeper meaning when we take the time to pause and reflect.
A few quotes I tabbed:
" It matters less where we live; what matters most is how we live in each place."
"We are fragmented people in a fragmented world, but we do not feel made for fragmentation. No matter the form of our religion, no matter the shape of our spiritual lives, we long for a mode of being and relating in which the puzzle pieces fit, in which the picture - whatever exactly it depicts - is beautiful."
"How do we grow whole gardens? We ask ourselves not what others expect of us, but what we truly love."
I've received a complimentary copy. This review reflects my honest opinion.
March 17, 2024
Christie Purifoy has done a beautiful thing with the final installment in her trilogy centering on gardens and the beauty they bring to our lives. “Seedtime and Harvest” explores roots, connections, wholeness and hope through the lens of gardens, trees and wildlife. Each of the short chapters are brought to life by Christie’s stories and gorgeous photos taken at her historic home. It’s a book whose wisdom stretches beyond the garden fence into our daily routines so it’s a brilliant read for those of us who are less than skilled in raising plants - although the encouragement throughout the book may just prompt more of us to put in a tomato plant or two this year.
September 2, 2024
I thoroughly enjoyed this book that is based on the gardens of the author over the years. Now living on a farm in Pennsylania called Maplehurst, she reminisces about her gardening adventures in other states, and how she has learned and grown from all her planting experiences. There are four sections - Gardens grow roots, Gardens grow connection, Gardens grow wholeness and, my favorite one, Gardens grow hope. The illustrations and tips in each section are also very helpful. If you're a gardener or have been on in the past or are thinking about gardening, I highly recommend this book for you.
March 24, 2025
Just so lovely and grounding. Reading Christie Purifoy’s musings on gardening and life is like a beautiful walk through a gorgeous garden. So many beautiful little insights and the writing is rich and bright without pretentiousness. Grab it and head for a park bench or botanical garden! Or, like me, savor inside during colder times with a hot cuppa and dreams for the spring. You need not even be a gardener to appreciate it but the little gardening tips and plant suggestions along the way are just perfect for those who are.
March 5, 2024
A book about gardening and so much more! You will discover roots, connection, wholeness, and hope in this meaningful (and gorgeous!) book about gardening. The generous sharing of a garden is discussed, with humans, birds, other animals and insects benefitting from the choice of what is grown. The lovely photographs enhance the text and illustrate that the goodness of a garden, no matter the size, is for all to learn from and delight in.
June 6, 2024
Beautiful quiet pondering essays on cycles of life in a gardener’s world. And such lovely photos. Beautifully bound. Great for gifting ….. and reading on the porch with coffee of a quiet morning/evening.
January 5, 2026
Another inspiring ready by Christie Purifoy. Love how she is willing to adapt, learn, grow alongside her garden. So many layers of truth in her writing. Thankful to read another work and to join in the learning and growing.
April 22, 2024
A lovely read for gardeners.
April 24, 2024
Enjoyed every page! Beautiful, inspiring, and peaceful! The words and pictures were a balm for this tired soul! It got me out in the garden! Her books are a spiritual retreat.
July 7, 2024
Easy, informative read for the garden lover.
July 12, 2024
This is a beautiful book with a variety of great gardening insights and ideas. A treasure!
February 28, 2025
another beautifully written book by Christie! So enjoyable and hopeful!
March 23, 2025
Gorgeous pictures. Beautiful, meditative reflections on the significance of gardens and gardening. Some garden guidance and inspiration as well. Loved it, per usual with Christie Purifoy's work.
October 12, 2025
Love this author. As a gardener, I love her writing style, her beliefs and her photos. Reading this book made me feel like I was actually living inside this book.
February 17, 2026
Having read Purifoys other books recently I felt a little burnt out on this one but I do like the details into plants that she gives
January 2, 2025
This is a lovely book written by a gardener for gardeners, however amateurish they may be. Reading it is a wonderful way to spend a few hours.
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