Gardening across the pond : Anglo-American exchanges from the settlers in Virginia to prairie gardens in England /
Bisgrove, Richard,
Gardening across the pond : Anglo-American exchanges from the settlers in Virginia to prairie gardens in England / Richard Bisgrove. - 208 pages, xxxii pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
9781910258248 1910258245
GBB8C6166 bnb
018934226 Uk
Gardening--History.--United States
Gardening--History.--England
Botanists--History.--United States
Botanists--History.--England
Plant collectors--History.
United States--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--United States.
History.
QK26 / .B57 2018
Gardening across the pond : Anglo-American exchanges from the settlers in Virginia to prairie gardens in England / Richard Bisgrove. - 208 pages, xxxii pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
9781910258248 1910258245
GBB8C6166 bnb
018934226 Uk
Gardening--History.--United States
Gardening--History.--England
Botanists--History.--United States
Botanists--History.--England
Plant collectors--History.
United States--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--United States.
History.
QK26 / .B57 2018