A Gardener's Eden:Barbara Worl's World

摘要

Barbara Worl, eminent practitioner of gardening— that most ephemeral of arts—died on September 12, 2017, at age 90. Born in Indiana, she made her home in California after graduating in 1950 with a degree in English history from Stanford. With a small inheritance, she bought a house on a 100-foot by 100-foot lot in Menlo Park and began making her first garden. Over a 55-year career as a bookseller at Bell's Books in Palo Alto, she built up a superb gardening book section and befriended gardeners and old rose lovers around the world.