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The Beauties of a Cottage Garden

This is a celebration of the beauties and Possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle. Auricula. Snapdragon Spanish Iris and Corydalis and all the other plants that Enliven and Exalt the Gardens of England. Gertrude Jekyll gives good advice on how to make a garden a place of repose and pleasure. Writing with enthusiasm on the colours and scents of flowers. on the frustrations (and delights) of weeding and on the debasing influence of flower shows. she is practical. wise and entertaining in equal measure. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside — but it has profoundly shaped us too. It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists. writers. musicians and people who live and work on the land — as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celeates this long tradition...

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-119087-7
  • EAN
  • 9780141190877
  • Genres
  • gardening
  • Release date
  • 2009