Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
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An almost impossible thing
£12.00An almost impossible thing
While working at the Royal Horticultural Society, Fiona Davison discovered a cache of letters from a young gardener who was denied a scholarship by the RHS, on the grounds that she was female. Appalled and intrigued to find out what became of Olive, Fiona began to research the wider story of early female professional gardeners and discovered a group of pioneers whose struggles against patriarchy changed forever the rights and opportunities for women gardeners. ‘An Almost Impossible Thing’ follows six hitherto littleknown women gardeners in the years before the First World War, and examines their lives in the context of suffragism, collectivism and Empire.
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Birds as individuals
£16.99Birds as individuals
Enter the secret lives of Britain’s ordinary garden birds and the brilliant, unconventional woman who opened her doors to them. In the late 1930s, Len Howard packed up her life in London, bought a plot of land in Sussex and built herself a little house there. This was to be Bird Cottage, a place where the doors of the house were open to the birds of the garden – great tits, blue tits, robins, blackbirds, willow warblers and many others. Len lived the rest of her life alongside her bird neighbours, with some sleeping in her bedroom and many flitting in and out all day long. This is the book she wrote about the birds – a study not just of their behaviour but their individual personalities. We learn about their intelligence, emotional lives, and characters, their capacity for play and humour, the range of their song, their likes and dislikes, and their bond with Len.
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Garden heaven
£16.99Garden heaven
A beautiful tour of Britain’s greatest gardens, classic and modern. Inspiration and escapism for every gardener.
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RHS horti curious
£19.99RHS horti curious
This wonderfully diverse collection of facts, figures and foliage is a celebration of plants, gardens and gardening. All things horticultural can be found here, from the phantasmagorical to the practical and everything in between.
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The Botanic Garden
£30.00The Botanic Garden
The Botanic Garden takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens, as it tours the most magnificent botanic havens in the world.
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The botanists’ library
£28.00The botanists’ library
The Botanists’ Library is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the most significant publications that have informed botanical knowledge throughout history.
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The English Landscape Garden
£40.00The English Landscape Garden
The English Landscape Garden is a beautifully photographed celebration of the best of the 18th century English landscape garden – a quintessentially British art form that influenced the rest of the world.
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The garden against time
£20.00The garden against time
From one of our most original contemporary voices, The Garden Against Time is an inventive and deeply felt exploration of the long dream of a shared Eden, a common paradise.
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The resilient garden and allotment handbook
£15.99The resilient garden and allotment handbook
Create a thriving garden or allotment that works in harmony with nature and will flourish in the face of ever-changing environmental conditions. In ‘The Resilient Garden and Allotment Handbook’, expert organic gardener Sally Morgan shares a wide range of ecological concepts from permaculture, regenerative gardening, agroecology and more to boost your garden’s biodiversity and enrich your soil.
£15.99