Lessons from the great gardeners : forty gardening icons and what they teach us / Matthew Biggs.

"Like heirloom seeds and grafts from trees, advice from great gardeners handed down through the centuries has shaped the science and art of gardens across the globe. Spanning gardeners from fifteenth-century Japan to the contemporary United States, "Lessons from the Great Gardeners" profiles forty g...

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Main Author: Biggs, Matthew (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
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Physical Description:224 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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505 0 |a Somai -- Wang Xianchen -- André Le Nôtre -- Philip Miller -- Thomas Jefferson -- Sir Joseph Paxton -- James Veitch, Jr. -- Sir Thomas Hanbury -- William Robinson -- Claude Monet -- Gertrude Jekyll -- Henry E. Huntington -- Ellen Willmott -- Edward Augustus Bowles -- Pierre S. du Pont -- Lawrence Johnston -- Beatrix Farrand -- Henry Duncan McLaren -- Rae Selling Berry -- Sir Frederick Stern -- Jacques Majorelle -- Madame Ganna Walska -- Vita Sackville-West -- Margery Fish -- Beatrix Havergal -- Mildred Blandy -- Robert Burle Marx -- Princess Lelia Caetani -- Princess Greta Sturdza -- Carl Ferris Miller (Min Pyong-gal) -- Christopher Lloyd -- Beth Chatto -- Geoffrey Smith -- Penelope Hobhouse -- Bev McConnell -- Geoff Hamilton -- Piet Oudolf -- Jeremy Francis -- Will Giles -- Dan Hinkley. 
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