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Overview

From secateurs to seed bombs, hybrids to ha-has, lawnmowers to land artists, the gardening world has long attracted innovators. This delightful book outlines the advances that changed horticulture and the landscape forever. The fascinating and amusing short entries are accompanied by charming specially created illustrations. This beautifully produced book is the ideal gift for the gardener in your life.

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ISBN-13:	9781786273178
Publisher:	Laurence King Publishing
Publication date:	09/04/2018
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Abigail Willis is an arts and gardening writer. She has written about urban gardens, and London gardens, in particular. Her London Garden Book A-Z has twice been shortlisted for the Garden Media Guild's Inspirational Garden Book of Year award. She is a member of the Critics' Circle and the Garden Media Guild.

Dave Hopkins is an illustrator specializing in all forms of line work. His clients include numerous publications from The Economist to Mojo.

Introduction 5

The Wardian Case 6

Use Lawnmower 8

Arts & Crafts Gardens 10

Roses 13

Secateurs 14

Fairchild's Mule 16

Plant Hunters 18

Chemical Gardening 20

Organic Gardening 22

Garden Rooms 24

Herbaceous Borders 26

Mixed Borders 28

Island Beds 30

Allotments 32

Potagers 35

Container Gardening 36

Taxonomy and Nomenclature 38

Botanic Gardens 40

Hortus Conclusus 42

English Landscape Gardens 44

Wilderness Gardens 46

Prairie Planting 48

Zen Gardens 50

White Gardens 52

The Anti Lawn 54

Water Features 56

Glasshouses 59

Dry Gardening 62

Rockeries 64

Topiary 66

Carpet Bedding 68

Climate Change 71

Rus in Lrbe: The Garden Square 73

The Ha-Ha 76

Horticultural Societies 78

Gardeners' Almanaes 80

No Dig Gardening 82

Aerial and vertical Gardens 84

Knot Gardens and Parterres 86

The Garden centre 88

Women Gardeners 90

Plant Crazes 92

Paradise Gardens 94

Nurserymen & Seedsmen 97

Guerrilla Gardening 99

Gurus 100

Public Parks 102

Low Maintenance Garden 104

Garden Restoration 106

Gardening Magazines 108

Index 111

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Editorial Reviews

09/03/2018
The influence of the guillotine on gardening shear design and the invention of plant-hunting by the pharaoh Hatshepsut in 1500 BCE are just two of the surprising historical tidbits strewn throughout this delightful horticultural survey. Willis (The London Garden Book A–Z), an arts and gardening writer, starts with the Wardian Case, a miniature greenhouse, and finishes up with gardening magazines (the first published in the U.K.: The Botanical Magazine, 1787). In between, she informs green-thumbed readers about herbaceous and mixed borders; “Fairchild’s mule” (the first, albeit infertile, human-made hybrid plant); the lawn mower (patented in 1830); roses, of course; and English landscape gardens. In general, the U.K. dominates her subjects, but the U.S. sneaks in, too, in references to New York City’s High Line, the now-gone Gardens of the Nations at Rockefeller Center, and Washington, D.C.’s Dumbarton Oaks estate. Chief among the delights of the book is the wry humor: on techniques for mowing prairie planting, she cautions parenthetically, “bison need not apply.” Another delight comes from Dave Hopkins’s b&w engravings. While marred by its minuscule font size, this book will otherwise make a welcome addition to any gardener’s library. (Sept.)

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The Compendium of Amazing Gardening Innovations

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