Glad McArthur’s Lifetime of Gardening. and is illustrated with sixty

and is illustrated with sixty pages of colour photographs of plants

ISBN 9781860460593

The story begins billions of years ago with simple single cell organisms and proceeds to the explosion of life in the seas and then its beginnings and development on land until now

Atlantic Books

RD Press Ltd

Glad McArthur’s Lifetime of Gardening. and is illustrated with sixtyGladys McArthur. An edited version of the authors newspaper Gardening Notes, a chronicle of what was happening in her Central Otago garden, season by season. It is full of insight, advice and charm and there is also a chapter on Paeonies, her favourite flower. From 1956 until her death in 1992, Glad McArthur wrote a weekly column for the Central Otago News. Gardeners in the region would not plant their peas until she said it was the right time.