Gardening across the pond
Anglo-American exchanges from the settlers in Virginia to prairie gardens in England
Bisgrove, Richard
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enk
2018
monographic
eng
208 pages, xxxii pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
"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.
Richard Bisgrove.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gardening
United States
History
Gardening
England
History
Botanists
United States
History
Botanists
England
History
Plant collectors
History
United States
Relations
Great Britain
Great Britain
Relations
United States
QK26 .B57 2018
9781910258248
1910258245
NZAUC
180325
20190906130555.0
on1060193057
eng