This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the
extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain,
even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own.
Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest records of the
laboring classes in the country to today, Margaret Willes's
research unearths lush gardens nurtured outside rough workers'
cottages and horticultural miracles performed in blackened yards,
and reveals the ingenious, sometimes devious, methods employed by
determined, obsessive, and eccentric workers to make their drab
surroundings bloom. She also explores the stories of the great
philanthropic industrialists who provided gardens for their
workforces, the fashionable rich stealing the gardening ideas of
the poor, alehouse syndicates and fierce rivalries between
vegetable growers, flower-fanciers cultivating exotic blooms on
their city windowsills, and the rich lore handed down from gardener
to gardener through generations. This is a sumptuous record of the
myriad ways in which the popular cultivation of plants, vegetables,
and flowers has played-and continues to play-an integral role in
everyday British life.
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