{"id":981,"date":"2018-09-02T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eudoraweltysociety.org\/?page_id=981"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:08:36","slug":"gardening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eudoraweltysociety.org\/?page_id=981","title":{"rendered":"Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eudora Welty was an enthusiastic gardener, to the point that at times her dedication competed with her devotion to writing: \u201cI have lots of energy and full days working, but on flowers, not stories\u2014there is so much to do outside that I may never get through and never get to stories.\u201d Although she always referred to the garden at 1119 Pinehurst as her mother\u2019s garden, two books reveal that she was herself a passionate gardener: Julia Eichelberger in Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty\u2019s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949<\/em><\/a> collects Welty\u2019s letters to her literary agent, Diarmuid Russell, and to her romantic interest, John Robinson, who was away at war during most of this time period. Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown in One Writer\u2019s Garden: Eudora Welty\u2019s Home Place<\/em><\/a> detail the planning, construction, and ongoing effort by Welty\u2019s mother, Chestina, and then by Eudora Welty herself, on the Pinehurst garden, placing this one garden in the larger context of gardening in American life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>