Garden Flora
The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants In Your Garden
The plants we grow in our gardens have dual personalities. All of them originated in the wild, and evolved highly specific traits in response to their environments. But then humans took them up—either for their beauty or their useful qualities—and changed them, altering their colors, foliage, fragrance, size, and hardiness in order to align them with our wants and needs. Kingsbury relates these absorbing histories with erudition as well as a story-teller’s instinct for revealing detail. In all, he covers 133 plant groups that are the mainstays of our gardens. The time you spend poring over the pages of Garden Flora will not only bring you ple…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60469-565-6
- EAN: 9781604695656
- Produktnummer: 19233950
- Verlag: Workman
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H28.9 cm x B22.8 cm x D3.2 cm 1'584 g
- Abbildungen: Hardback - Paper Over Boards; 199 color photos
- Gewicht: 1584
Über den Autor
Noel Kingsbury is a researcher, writer, and teacher. A gardener since childhood, he has run a nursery, designed gardens and public spaces, and done doctoral research at the University of Sheffield’s Department of Landscape on the ecology of ornamental perennials. He lives and gardens in the Welsh Borders near Hay-on-Wye.
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