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This is the Hebrew edition of My Wild Garden by the Israeli novelist Meir Shalev, published in Hebrew as גינת בר by Am Oved in 2017. Shalev writes about the garden around his home in the Jezreel Valley, where he grows the wild plants of the Land of Israel: wild trees and shrubs, cyclamens, anemones, narcissus, rockroses and more.
The book gathers some fifty short pieces about one modest wild garden and the gardener who tends it. Shalev describes nature in its colors, scents and sounds, the turning of the seasons, sprouting and wilting, all woven with personal stories and gentle humor. As he says himself, it is not a gardening manual or a botany textbook.
The drawings are by Refaella Shir, the author's sister. A delight for garden lovers, nature lovers and readers of Shalev's novels. The book was later published in English as My Wild Garden.