With much charm, Elizabeth depicts the progress of her lovely garden, the beauty of the surrounding forest, and the various sounds of nature’s creatures.

If you like Jane Austen's humor, you'll probably find this very amusing as well (I laughed out loud a few times, and often smiled). Undoubtedly, Elizabeth’s love for gardening and her German garden is the strongest attraction of this memoir. I know you have to view this through eyes of the time but I found her views of people from a class she saw as below her awful. I'm afraid I was too mean to send mine to France and I wasn't sure it would make the journey as it is so old - so I have bought this new copy and plan to send it to her immediately.I absolutely loved 'Enchanted April', so perhaps my expectations of 'Elizabeth and her German Garden' were too high? Von Arnim wrote another 20 books, which were all published "By the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden".

Minora (one of her visitors) was angry at this, and at last pulled off her glove, but quickly put it on again. Although it supposedly read like a diary, for me it really didn't, as I've read other "diary" type books that really drew me in immediately. They were mismatched, with Elizabeth being bright, sensitive and happy by nature and her husband being somber, pragmatic and bound by duty to the arduous task of farming his estate to bring in a meager income. Count von Arnim died in 1910, and in 1916 Elizabeth married John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, Bertrand Russell's elder brother.Second, the descriptions of all the flowers and the garden were longish and slightly boring since I'm not into gardening, at all (I unfortunately kill everything!