Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us by Biggs, Matthew
Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us by Biggs, Matthew

Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us

Like heirloom seeds and grafts from trees, advice from great gardeners handed down through the centuries has...
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Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us by Biggs, Matthew

Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us

$90.66
Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us by Biggs, Matthew

Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us

$90.66
Author: Matthew Biggs
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Like heirloom seeds and grafts from trees, advice from great gardeners handed down through the centuries has shaped the science and art of gardens across the globe. Spanning gardeners from fifteenth-century Japan to the contemporary United States, Lessons from the Great Gardeners profiles forty groundbreaking botanists, nurserymen, and tillers of earth, men and women whose passion, innovation, and green thumbs endure in the formal landscapes and vegetable patches of today.

Entries for each gardening great highlight their iconic plants and garden designs, revealing both the gardeners' own influences and the seeds--sometimes literal--that they sowed for gardens yet to sprout. From Andr Le N tre in seventeenth-century France, who drew on his training as an architect and hydraulic engineer to bring the topiary form to Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles, to the work of High Line and Lurie Garden designer Piet Oudolf, and Thomas Jefferson's advice on creating protected garden microclimates for help growing early crops and tender fruit like figs (with peas, a Jefferson favorite), Lessons from the Great Gardeners is a resource as rich as the soil from which it springs.

Featuring lush illustrations harvested from the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society, as well as sections on a dozen international gardens that showcase the lessons of the greats, this homage to the love of good, clean dirt is sure to inspire readers to get out in the sun and dig.

Author: Matthew Biggs
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 03/07/2016
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780226369488


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Booklist 05/15/2016 pg. 17

About the Author
Matthew Biggs trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is a member of the Woody Plant Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, and panel member on BBC Radio Four's Gardeners' Question Time. A well-known broadcaster, gardening writer, and personality, he has written several books including The Complete Book of Vegetables: The Ultimate Guide to Growing, Cooking and Eating Vegetables.
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