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Title: She finally admits to having a gardener!
Review: I had high expectations for the book and did read the entire thing. As other reviewers commented, her rooms were done beautifully, then crammed more full of just too much stuff. She seems to be such a collector, unable to delete anything and even going so far a buying the house accross the street because she couldn't imagine anyone else owning it! It is now the guest house, basicly the third "guest quarters" outside of the main house. But what really irked me was how these really magnificent gardens unfolded in front of me, chapter after chapter, all introduced in the first person, ie "I decided to do create this" or "I love to do that with my gardens". The volume of gardens is far beyond the ability for one working woman who just lives onsite on the weekends. Not until the very end of the book does she 'fess up to having a "gardener", a "head gardener" no less. Really not realistic for mere mortals to aspire to.
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