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Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us

Hardcover • 2016 • English

Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us

By Matthew Biggs

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About the book

Like heirloom seeds and grafts from trees, advice from great gardeners handed down through the centuries has shaped the science and art of gardens across the globe. Spanning gardeners from fifteenth-century Japan to the contemporary United States, Lessons from the Great Gardeners profiles forty groundbreaking botanists, nurserymen, and tillers of earth, men and women whose passion, innovation, and green thumbs endure in the formal landscapes and vegetable patches of today. Entries for each g...Show more

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ISBN

9780226369488

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us

Format

Hardcover

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