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(Paperback)
Theresa Burns
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The British have always been a nation of gardeners. Our gardening
history began even before the Romans, who brought Mediterranean
plants which still flourish across Britain. Gardening grew in the
sixteenth century and a distinctively British style became a major
export in the eighteenth century. Today, the annual Chelsea Flower
Show is an international festival, and our garden designers are in
demand all over the world. This book traces the history of British
gardening over 450 years through the stories of twenty-six key
figures, showing what drove them, and their role in the evolution
of Britain's gardens. Their work reveals changes in taste and
society down the centuries. Familiar names are featured, such as
'Capability' Brown, Humphry Repton, Gertrude Jekyll, Vita
Sackville-West and Christopher Lloyd, together with less generally
known figures such as John Gerard, whose Herball of 1597 inspired
generations of plantsmen, the Tradescants, pioneer plant hunters,
and J. C. Loudon, nineteenth-century champion of smaller gardens.
In the present day, we meet Beth Chatto, advocate of the right
plant in the right place, and John Brookes, who did for gardening
what Elizabeth David did for cooking. Their achievements provide a
colourful history and inspiration to every gardening enthusiast.
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