The Children's Garden Book: Instruction, Plans & Stories: a
Voice from a Gentle Age Written by: Olive Percival Format: 9 3/4
x 8 1/2, 64 pages, 106 illustrations, cloth Release Date:
2005-11-01 About this Book A gardener "ought to have a little
make-believe," the Southern California garden maven Olive
Percival mused more than 80 years ago. Inspired by this
principle, she devised plans for whimsical gardens that could be
enjoyed by children and adults alike. Her delightful schemes
included "The Garden of Aladdin," an enchanted, sunken orchard
fragrant with kumquat, persimmon, and orange trees; "The Fairy
Ring," a blue fairyland of forget-me-nots, larkspur, and borage;
and "The Sliced Cake," a round, pink-and-white garden divided
into wedges—the perfect setting for afternoon tea. Percival’s
charming illustrations and instructions for fifteen fanciful
children’s gardens, all selected from her unpublished manuscript
in the Huntington Library, are reproduced for the first time in
this volume, designed in keeping w