Lady Gardeners
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Lady Gardeners

Seeds, Roots, Propagation, from England to the Wider World

  1. 182 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Lady Gardeners

Seeds, Roots, Propagation, from England to the Wider World

About this book

The Lady Gardeners to whom the chapters of this book are devoted are those women who, from the eighteenth century to the present day, have been working in a garden, from imagining and creating it, to sowing, planting, pruning, painting and photographing plants, and moving from garden design to more urgent themes such as landscape conservation and environmental issues.

However, and this is the reason why this collection differs from other excellent models that deal with women and gardens, the essays also dwell on the personal lives and experiences of women who have lived in gardens, and enjoyed landscape, jotting simple notes in their diaries or working as landscape architects, describing it in stories for children, portraying strange exotic plants in their paintings, assembling bunches of flowers to decorate their home, and defending such spaces with their strong commitment to preservation. From England, and its long well-documented garden history, they have moved to Africa, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, the Far East: the chapters in this book thus also confirm the vocation of the English garden that can enlarge its boundaries, transform and adapt itself to modern times and distant climates without foregoing its old roots.

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Yes, you can access Lady Gardeners by Francesca Orestano,Michael Vickers, Francesca Orestano, Michael Vickers in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Literary Essays. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents Page
  5. List of Figures
  6. Introduction. Lady Gardeners, from England to the wider world
  7. Chapter 1. The Eighteenth Century: three princesses at Kew Gardens
  8. Chapter 2. Dorothy Wordsworth: a romantic garden in the Lake District
  9. Chapter 3. Jane Loudon, notes on gardening for Victorian ladies
  10. Chapter 4. Marianne North, the world is a garden to paint
  11. Chapter 5. Children and Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll: training young gardeners
  12. Chapter 6. Beatrix Potter, playful and scientific illustrations
  13. Chapter 7. Garden and Landscape in North America
  14. Chapter 8. Vita Sackville West: a garden that looks like home, from Knole to Sissinghurst
  15. Chapter 9. Edna Walling and her gardening work, or “the happiest days of my life”
  16. Chapter 10. History, design, vision: Sylvia Crowe
  17. Chapter 11. The adventure of an exotic species: Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard
  18. Chapter 12. Rosemary Verey: re-reading English history in the modern garden
  19. Chapter 13. Beth Chatto: going along with the environment, or “the right plant for the right place”