The Origin of Plants: The People and Plants That Have Shaped Britain's Garden History Since the Year 1000 - Hardcover

Campbell-Culver, Maggie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074727214X ISBN 13: 9780747272144

Verlag: Headline Book Publishing, 2001

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Book by CampbellCulver Maggie

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Críticas:

What a beautiful and much needed book - Museum of Garden History Whether used as a good read, as a reference of for browsing through, it is value for money - Plant Heritage The author...clearly has a finely tuned feeling for how plants are used and how they contribute to different garden styles' 'this is a splendid book and worth every penny... It should be on every gardener's bookshelf - Penelope Hobhouse, Gardens Illustrated ,Richly illustrated and exhaustively reseached, this a book for the armchair gardener who likes others to do the digging, in this case into history' - The Times A lot of learning with a light touch - Financial Times An impressive book in both scope and detail...a most welcome and accessible reference - TLS

Reseña del editor:

In AD 1000 Britain had only a few hundred indigenous plants and many of the species we take for granted in our gardens and parks were as yet unknown in the UK. Over the past millennium, plant hunters have introduced what we now consider everyday plants, such as rhododendrons from China and gladiolus from Africa and exotics such as the monkey puzzle tree from Brazil. Respected garden historian Maggie Campbell-Culver has researched the provenance and often strange stories of many of the thousands of plants which add colour and beauty to our gardens to produce a gorgeous and valuable book.

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• Verlag: Headline Book Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 074727214X
• ISBN 13: 9780747272144
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256