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Monday 20 February 2006
D. H. Lawrence as vegetable gardener
[Zennor, Cornwall:] For the rest, what is there to say? — I have made wonderful gardens, where things grew by magic: fat marrows, on plants that seemed as if they were going to roam till they encircled the earth; long, flat beans in festoons among the red flowers, and a harvest of peas, myriads of rich full pods — and kohl rabi, and salsify, and scorzonera, and leeks, and spinach, — everything in the world it seems. But we have had massive storms that have smashed my pea-rows back into the earth. Sic transit.
1917 D. H. Lawrence, Letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith, 3 September 1917 [ Letters, vol. 3, pp 157–8]