Gardening across the pond: Anglo-American exchanges from the settlers in Virginia to prairie gardens in England

"For four hundred years there has been a special relationship in many aspects of life between Britain and what is now the United States of America, not least in gardening. From the early settlers taking their familiar English plants to the New World and early plant-hunters bringing back excitin...

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1. Verfasser: Bisgrove, Richard (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [London] Pimpernel Press Ltd 2018
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Zusammenfassung:"For four hundred years there has been a special relationship in many aspects of life between Britain and what is now the United States of America, not least in gardening. From the early settlers taking their familiar English plants to the New World and early plant-hunters bringing back exciting new plants for English gardens, to the twenty-first-century English infatuation with 'prairie gardening', ideas and plants have been crossing and re-crossing the Atlantic. In Gardening Across the Pond, Richard Bisgrove explores four centuries of translantic influences, from the Tradescants plant-hunting in seventeenth century Virginia, to the prairie landscapes of the 2012 London Olympic Park, and attempts to answer that thorny question - is the English cottage garden an American invention?"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:208 Seiten, XXXII Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781910258248
1910258245