Twigs Way

The Cottage Garden

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Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combined beauty and utility, pride and productivity. But what was the reality of the space immortalised in images of thatched cottages with floral borders and ducks on the path? For many the garden was crucial in keeping food on the table, for many simply a status symbol and blaze of colour; and gardens did not just appeal to the senses, but played a philosophical and moral role in society, and thus in our social history. Visions of the rural cottager were never far from the mind of the Victorian middle classes, whether as a shining example to the indigent urban poor… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-7478-0818-3
EAN: 9780747808183
Produktnummer: 16909509
Verlag: Shire Pubn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 64 S.
Masse: H21.2 cm x B15.1 cm x D0.7 cm 151 g
Gewicht: 151

Über den Autor

Twigs Way is a garden historian and author who specialises in the social and political aspects of gardens and landscapes. Her other successful titles for Shire include Allotments, Garden Gnomes and Topiary.