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Whitfield Press, 1998. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Very rare signed copy of this self published work from the author of The Canadian Gardeners Journal (1991). Gardener Helen Dillon's copy "Many of the essays in this collection are about the 'consumption' of gardens rather than their 'production.' They are less about what went into the making of our garden, but more about what came out of it: despair and jubilation, chance successes, shifting enthusiasms, tranquillity and turmoil, the ambiguous poetry of a frail and temporary beauty. The decision to "make a garden" is momentous, since the consequences of that decision fill our eyes, our minds, our hearts.

Dundurn, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Garden of Dreams: Kingsmere and Mackenzie King by Edwin a von Baeyer. 1st Edition, very good condition, unmarked, dust jacket very good, couple of pages after page 73 protrude slightly, but are tight. Gardener Helen Dillon's copy.William Lyon Mackenzie King was Canada's longest serving Prime Minister, and perhaps its shrewdest political tactician, and perhaps its most enigmatic. He died at his beloved home "Kingsmere" near Ottawa in 1950. This is a book about King's beloved garden in the Mackenzie King Estate, where he withdrew from the difficulties of political life to interact with the natural world.

Prepared for The Niagara Parks Commission by Moriyama & Teshima Planners Limited, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good condition, slight foxing inside cover, otherwise clean. Given as a gift to Gardener Helen Dillon, on inside page a book plate reads, 'Presented by the class of 2000 from the Niagara Falls Botanical Gardens and School of Horticulture Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. International Horticultural Study Tour August 1999'. Very rare book prepared for the Niagara Parks Commission.