{"id":97789,"date":"2016-05-05T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=97789"},"modified":"2016-05-05T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:31:24","slug":"green-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/05\/green-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97794\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/perenyi.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97794\" class=\"wp-image-97794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/perenyi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/perenyi.jpg 1499w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/perenyi-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/perenyi-768x648.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/perenyi-1024x863.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the cover of <i>Green Thoughts<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m terrified by the concept of the green thumb. Your proverbial green thumb combines all the factors for maximum intimidation: he or she has the worthy ability to interest herself in something really boring, a general competence and practicality, and a quality that\u2019s something like mystical virtue\u2014like being able to horse whisper or something. (I think\u00a0<em>The Secret Garden<\/em>\u2019s Dickon is partially responsible for this stereotype.)\u00a0When someone loves to garden, he or she immediately becomes an alien species to me, just as do people who love to run.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And in an urban setting, any kind of gardening feels\u00a0<em>rich<\/em>. It implies the wealth required for space and leisure, or at least for ample sunlight. It used to be that the notion of a garden conjured a lady of the manor walking around with a flat basket of flowers, a la Rebecca de Winter. But nowadays, a \u201cValencia\u201d-tinted, sun-filled space restfully endowed with a few flourishing ferns feels almost as aspirational.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the other end of the spectrum, there\u2019s a certain louche glamour to the urbanite who simply can\u2019t keep a houseplant alive\u2014who doesn\u2019t even try to water it, really. It\u2019s like someone who can only conceive of the oven as a shoe closet.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I\u2019m the worst of all worlds: I try, and I fail. \u00a0Some of my plants wither from neglect but others from overwatering. Even with diligent trimming and water rotation, the cut-flower life expectancy in my apartment\u00a0is alarmingly low. Flowers are always a reminder of death. For some of us, they\u2019re also a memento of failure.<\/p>\n<p>Which perhaps makes it curious that I\u2019ve been on a kick of gardening books. It started with Eleanor Perenyi\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Green-Thoughts-Writer-Library-Gardening\/dp\/037575945X\"><em>Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden<\/em><\/a><\/em>. I\u2019d loved the bracing, crisp voice in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/helped-by-recollection\/\">her memoir of 1930s Eastern Europe<\/a>,\u00a0<em>More Was Lost<\/em>, and didn\u2019t want to say good-bye. I\u2019d seen <em>Green Thoughts<\/em> described as a \u201cclassic of gardening literature,\u201d but if, like me, you find those the least enticing words in English, don\u2019t worry: it\u2019s a good book on\u00a0any terms. Perenyi\u2019s a tough person, not always \u201clikable.\u201d She makes no apology for her competence. Her love of growing things is clearly wrapped up with conjuring a life and a world that\u2019s lost\u2014in her case, the prewar years detailed in\u00a0<em>More Was Lost.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0The book is \u2026 gorgeous. It\u2019s not about flowers\u2014or not solely\u2014it\u2019s about an animating passion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After that I picked up Elizabeth von Arnim\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elizabeth-Her-German-Garden-Arnim\/dp\/1438285493\"><em>Elizabeth and Her German Garden<\/em><\/a><\/em>, from 1898.\u00a0Nominally a novel, this also proved to be a tough, personal but fundamentally unsentimental work. It\u2019s been called a feminist book, although it\u2019s not overtly polemical, but light and wry. Elizabeth is opinionated, independent-minded, curious, tough. Both books deal with a seemingly frivolous hobby, but in each case the work of growing things creates a natural framework for talking about life, physical and otherwise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no sense in either case that building a garden is at odds with a fundamental seriousness\u2014about politics, the world, life. On the contrary. (Perenyi complains about the government\u2019s refusal to let her grow weed, for one thing.) A garden provides a refuge, a release, yes, but not a place to hide so much as a way to make sense of the world. It is a strange fact that both women had failed marriages to aristocrats, and later had to make it on their own in new countries and very different worlds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gardening memoir is a vast field, and I\u2019m sure as it\u2019s well larded with self-absorbed duds as any other. A couple I picked up were too lyrical by half, and too on the nose\u2014but that\u2019s memoir for you. What I can say is that I\u2019ve learned, if not a new enthusiasm for gardening, a renewed appreciation. We don\u2019t all have gardens; we all need a metaphorical one. As Von Arnim wrote to a friend,\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m so glad I didn\u2019t die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review<em>, and the <\/em>Daily<em>\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m terrified by the concept of the green thumb. Your proverbial green thumb combines all the factors for maximum intimidation: he or she has the worthy ability to interest herself in something really boring, a general competence and practicality, and a quality that\u2019s something like mystical virtue\u2014like being able to horse whisper or something. 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