prunings

Here lie the secrets of keeping African lilies blooming on the terrace from June to frost, how to grow primroses from seed, and how to build a fence out of willow prunings over a trench planted with petits pois, those tiny peas Marie Antoinette cooked herself, we are told, “in a silver saucepan with her own butter.”

2009 February 12, Anne Raver, “More Magic From an Enchanting Garden”, in New York Times