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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > General
In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners
were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were
stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his
son were at the vanguard of this change - as gardeners, as
collectors and above all as exemplars of an age that began in
wonder and ended with the dawning of science. Jennifer Potter's
book vividly evokes the drama of their lives and takes its readers
to the edge of an expanding universe. Strange Blooms is a
magnificent pleasure for gardeners and non-gardeners alike. This
'wonderful book' (Jane Stevenson, Daily Telegraph) describes the
remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants.
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