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Hortus revisited : a twenty-first birthday anthology / editor, David Wheeler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Frances Lincoln, ©2008.Description: 367 pages : illustrations, plans ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0711227381
  • 9780711227385
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB450.92 .H67 2008
Contents:
From the editor's desk / David Wheeler -- Scent gardening / Stephen Lacey -- Sir Cedric Morris, artist-gardener / Beth Chatto -- English bones, American flesh / Robert Dash -- The Aspern papers / Nancy-Mary Goodall -- Phyllis Reiss at Tintinhull / Penelope Hobhouse -- Lawrence Johnston of Hidcote Garden / Alvide Lees-Milne -- A gentle plea for chaos / Mirabel Osler -- An essayist in the garden : spring / Ronald Blythe -- Take me to your hostas / Nigel Colborn -- A rash of endemics / Richard Mabey -- Tulipa / Audrey Le Lièvre -- Paradise in the parks / John Francis -- The art of gardens / Andrew Lawson -- Colour from plants / Dawn MacLeod -- The artist as God / Mitchell Owens -- The gardener's diamond year / Elizabeth Seager -- The Annapurna Sanctuary / Tony Schilling -- Gardening myths and commandments / John Kelly -- The Laskett / Roy Strong -- Pugs, peacocks and pekingese / Deborah Kellaway -- William Robinson and the art of the book / Judith Tankard -- Blue pleasure / Jim Gould -- Companion planting / Catherine Umphrey -- Indispensible plants / Carol Klein -- The gardens of Beatrix Potter / Peter Parker -- Le rouge et le noir ... et le vert / Derek Toms -- A time there was, at Sissinghurst / Antony King-Deacon -- Young Stoneface / Tim Longville -- The gardens of war / Anne Powell -- Letter from Orkney / Katherine Swift -- Myosotis / Fergus Garrett -- Plas Brondanw / Diana Ross -- The danger of desert gardens / Susan Elderkin -- With malus aforethought / Marta McDowell -- The garden of Eden in Venice / John Hall -- Ridler's garden / Alex Dufort -- The age of guano / Charles Elliott -- Lighting the touch-paper / Elspeth Thompson -- The best teacher a gardener can have / Graham Gough -- Iris unguicularis / Ursula Buchan -- The wild and the gardened / Noel Kingsbury -- On meeting Ian Hamilton Finlay / Ambra Edwards -- A fragment of Italy on an Atlantic shore / John Akeroyd -- In an Irish garden / Peter Dale -- A work to wonder at / Celia Fisher -- Who's who -- Index.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves SB455 .W44 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800184368
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the editor's desk / David Wheeler -- Scent gardening / Stephen Lacey -- Sir Cedric Morris, artist-gardener / Beth Chatto -- English bones, American flesh / Robert Dash -- The Aspern papers / Nancy-Mary Goodall -- Phyllis Reiss at Tintinhull / Penelope Hobhouse -- Lawrence Johnston of Hidcote Garden / Alvide Lees-Milne -- A gentle plea for chaos / Mirabel Osler -- An essayist in the garden : spring / Ronald Blythe -- Take me to your hostas / Nigel Colborn -- A rash of endemics / Richard Mabey -- Tulipa / Audrey Le Lièvre -- Paradise in the parks / John Francis -- The art of gardens / Andrew Lawson -- Colour from plants / Dawn MacLeod -- The artist as God / Mitchell Owens -- The gardener's diamond year / Elizabeth Seager -- The Annapurna Sanctuary / Tony Schilling -- Gardening myths and commandments / John Kelly -- The Laskett / Roy Strong -- Pugs, peacocks and pekingese / Deborah Kellaway -- William Robinson and the art of the book / Judith Tankard -- Blue pleasure / Jim Gould -- Companion planting / Catherine Umphrey -- Indispensible plants / Carol Klein -- The gardens of Beatrix Potter / Peter Parker -- Le rouge et le noir ... et le vert / Derek Toms -- A time there was, at Sissinghurst / Antony King-Deacon -- Young Stoneface / Tim Longville -- The gardens of war / Anne Powell -- Letter from Orkney / Katherine Swift -- Myosotis / Fergus Garrett -- Plas Brondanw / Diana Ross -- The danger of desert gardens / Susan Elderkin -- With malus aforethought / Marta McDowell -- The garden of Eden in Venice / John Hall -- Ridler's garden / Alex Dufort -- The age of guano / Charles Elliott -- Lighting the touch-paper / Elspeth Thompson -- The best teacher a gardener can have / Graham Gough -- Iris unguicularis / Ursula Buchan -- The wild and the gardened / Noel Kingsbury -- On meeting Ian Hamilton Finlay / Ambra Edwards -- A fragment of Italy on an Atlantic shore / John Akeroyd -- In an Irish garden / Peter Dale -- A work to wonder at / Celia Fisher -- Who's who -- Index.

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