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A collection of sparkling and unpredictable essays ranging across the whole world of gardening, and sometimes slightly beyond, from the acclaimed author of The Transplanted Gardener and The Potting Shed Papers. Tales of great gardeners and heroic plant hunters share space with more personal revelations - exactly why every man needs a tractor, how to deal with woodchucks or a relentless west wind, the challenge of a knotweed infestation. Botanical frauds and heroic plant hunters, splendid gardens past and present, stirring discoveries and hopeless failures - all these and more fall beneath the writer's amused and endlessly curious eye. Funny, informative and dependably entertaining, Elliott once again demonstrates why readers from Bill Bryson to Alan Titchmarsh have so enjoyed and praised his work.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION GARDEN TOURS H. Avray Tipping and a Debate Reconciled Piercefield and the Picturesque A Visit to Highgrove Royal Gardeners Hidcote Morville and Ninfa ORIENTALIA Japonaiserie From Chinese Gardens Pruning A Collector in the Right Place ECCENTRICITIES Electro-Horticulture Frauds and Figments Imaginary Plants HEROES AND HEROINES The Tragedy of Vavilov The Queer German A Floral Orgy Two Remarkable Women Anglo-Florentines Luther Burbank A Galaxy of Gardeners BOTANY The Knotweed Challenge The GLP The Maize Maze Long Live the Seeds! Names COUNTRY LIFE Wild West Wind Commuting with Cats Logs Critters Time

About the Author :
Charles Elliott is an editor and writer who lives in London and gardens in Monmouth near the Welsh border. He is a regular contributor to Horticulture magazine, and has been a magazine editor and senior editor for Alfred A. Knopf in New York. He has written several books, including The Potting Shed Papers and More Papers from the Potting Shed. He lives in Monmouthshire and West London.

Review :
Charles Elliott is a saint. He provides all the pleasures of gardening without any of the aches and pains. Bill Bryson As autumn's chills set in, this elegant volume, with its mixture of personal anecdote and wide-ranging scholarship, is the ideal armchair gardener's companion. Daily Mail As a reader, you are in safe hands with Charles Elliott. Lauded author of 'The Transplanted Gardener' and the 'Potting Shed Papers' series of books, you know what you are getting when he puts his eloquent and yet amusing pen to paper. The title piece is a point in kind - 'Why Every Man Needs a Tractor' is instantly engaging, pleasant, inclusive and informative - but mostly entertaining, thanks to Elliott's innate ability to insightfully look back and laugh at himself. English Garden A hymn to the glories of owning a tractor, even when you don't really need one. (Or especially when you don't really need one.) Independent on Sunday These essays about the whole universe of gardening are both wide ranging and hugely entertaining. Saga His charming collection of short essays covers subjects from the feats of Victorian plant hunters to the horrors of knotweed. Daily Mail Hidden Gem! Oldie Tales of great gardeners and heroic plant hunters share space with more personal revelations in this hummorous gem. Eastern Daily Press Entertaining essays for the green-fingered. Field Entertaining and knowledgeable essays. Cornwall Gardens Trust Journal Tales of great gardeners and heroic plant hunters share space with more personal revelations in this humorous gem Grimsby Telegraph


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781781010839
  • Publisher: Frances Lincoln Ebooks
  • Publisher Imprint: Frances Lincoln Ebooks
  • Sub Title: and Other Revelations in the Garden
  • ISBN-10: 1781010838
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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