Lessons from the great gardeners Forty gardening icons and what they teach us

Matthew Biggs

Book - 2016

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Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press [2016]
Language
English
Main Author
Matthew Biggs (author)
Physical Description
224 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780226369488
  • Introduction
  • 1480-1525 Japan
  • b. 1500s China
  • 1613-1700 France
  • 1691-1771 United Kingdom
  • 1749-1826 United States
  • 1803-1865 United Kingdom
  • 1815-1869 United Kingdom
  • 1832-1907 United Kingdom
  • 1838-1935 United Kingdom
  • 1840-1926 France
  • 1843-1932 United Kingdom
  • 1850-1927 United States
  • 1853-1934 United Kingdom
  • 1865-1954 United Kingdom
  • 1870-1954 United States
  • 1871-1958 United kingdom
  • 1872-1959 United States
  • 1879-1953 United Kingdom
  • 1880-1976 United States
  • 1884-1967 United Kingdom
  • 1886-1962 Africa
  • 1887-1984 United States
  • 1892-1962 United Kingdom
  • 1892-1969 United Kingdom
  • 1901-1980 United Kingdom
  • 1905-1984 Portugal
  • 1909-1994 South America
  • 1913-1977 Italy
  • 1915-2009 France
  • 1921-2002 South Korea
  • 1921-2006 United Kingdom
  • b 1923 United kingdom
  • 1928-2009 United Kingdom
  • b. 1929 United Kingdom
  • b. 1931 New Zealand
  • 1936-1996 United Kingdom
  • b. 1944 The Netherlands
  • b. 1951 Australia
  • b. 1951 United Kingdom
  • b. 1953 - United States
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Credits and Acknowledgements
Review by Booklist Review

From the author of the encyclopedic The Complete Book of Vegetables (2010) comes an informal, primarily Western history of gardening through profiles of 40 iconic gardeners. There's André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), who brought topiary and sculpture, not to mention a sense of scale, to the gardens at Versailles; Briton William Robinson (1838-1935), who loosened the barren geometry of gardening and encouraged naturalistic planting and the use of gardens to feed his nation's poor; and American railroad tycoon Henry Huntington (1850-1927), whose astonishing desert garden near L.A. is still enjoyed by visitors today. Other figures include Thomas Jefferson, Claude Monet, James Veitch Jr. (namesake of Britain's coveted Veitch Memorial Medal), and such modern-day gardeners as Penelope Hobhouse, Piet Oudolf, and Dan Hinkley. Each profile features a biography of the gardener, a page of lessons that define that gardener's philosophy, and a generous selection of color illustrations of the gardens, and specific plants, they cultivated. A useful and entertaining, if not essential, reference.--Moores, Alan Copyright 2016 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.