Open LibraryWhy every man needs a tractor : [and other revelations in the garden]
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- Publication date
- 2011
- Topics
- Gardening
- Publisher
- London : Frances Lincoln
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- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 366.2M
222 pages ; 21 cm
"A collection of sparkling and unpredictable essays ranging across the whole world of gardening and sometimes slightly beyond ... 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."--Jacket
Includes index
Introduction -- ECCENTRICITIES. Wired -- Frauds and figments -- Imaginary plants -- ORIENTALIA. Japonaiserie -- From Chinese gardens -- Pruning -- A collector in the right place -- GARDEN TOURS. H. Avray tipping and a debate reconciled -- Piercefield and the picturesque -- A visit to Highgrove -- Royal gardeners -- Three gardens -- HEROES AND OTHERS. 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! -- A political fly -- Names -- COUNTRY LIFE. Wild west wind -- Commuting with cats -- Logs -- Critters -- Why every man needs a tractor -- Time and the garden
"A collection of sparkling and unpredictable essays ranging across the whole world of gardening and sometimes slightly beyond ... 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."--Jacket
Includes index
Introduction -- ECCENTRICITIES. Wired -- Frauds and figments -- Imaginary plants -- ORIENTALIA. Japonaiserie -- From Chinese gardens -- Pruning -- A collector in the right place -- GARDEN TOURS. H. Avray tipping and a debate reconciled -- Piercefield and the picturesque -- A visit to Highgrove -- Royal gardeners -- Three gardens -- HEROES AND OTHERS. 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! -- A political fly -- Names -- COUNTRY LIFE. Wild west wind -- Commuting with cats -- Logs -- Critters -- Why every man needs a tractor -- Time and the garden
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