Natural World  /  Garden History & Gardening
Everything for the Garden Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780989059848
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2019
Description:
Everything for the Garden is for anyone who enjoys gardening at home, visiting historic landscapes, or admiring plants and flowers in art and culture. Colorfully illustrated by material from Historic New England’s extensive collection, the book celebrates the objects and literature that people used to make and enjoy gardens from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Essays by well-known experts include Virginia Lopez Begg on garden clubs and horticultural societies, Alan Emmet on garden portraits, Richard Nylander on a cornucopia of catalogues and on garden architecture and ornament, and Judith Tankard on designing and making the garden.
Jardin Médiéval et Biodiversité Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9782840483342
Pub Date: 19 Jan 2013
Imprint: Heimdal
Description:
Reconstructing a medieval garden is part of the concerns of the modern man conscious of biodiversity, the environment and the balance of nature. Plant biodiversity is not confined to the maintenance of species currently cultivated, it consists of reintroducing plants formerly grown and long forgotten, as well as allowing plants, which are considered wild. The links between the environment control that are our gardens and the wild nature are necessary for the accomodation of helpful fauna.
Digging for Victory Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780955272370
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2010
Illustrations: colour throughout
Description:
Beans as bullets', 'Vegetables for Victory' and 'Cloches against Hitler': these slogans convey just how vital gardening and growing food were to the British war effort during the Second World War. Exhorted to 'Grow More Food', then to 'Dig for Victory', Britain's 'allotment army' was soon out in force, growing as many vegetables as possible in suburban allotments, private gardens, even the grounds of stately homes. Richly illustrated with contemporary photographs and ephemera relating to the 'Dig For Victory' campaign, this expertly researched, highly engaging and informative account also includes archive images of home front gardening, garden produce and advertisements.
RRP: £20.00
Allotment and Garden Guide Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780955272356
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2009
Illustrations: colour throughout
Description:
Produced by the Ministry of Agriculture, the "Allotment and Garden Guides" were issued monthly throughout 1945. Aimed at the amateur gardener, they were to be the final rallying call in the wartime campaign to Dig for Victory. Concentrating on the productive garden, the guides were designed to take the amateur gardener through the basic tasks of each month.
RRP: £9.99