Founding Gardeners
Founding Gardeners

Author: Andrea Wulf

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0307390683

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A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. • “Illuminating and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation. Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his estate manager even as British warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of environmentalism. Through these and other stories, Wulf reveals a fresh, nuanced portrait of the men who created our nation.

Gardener's Journal
Gardener's Journal

Author: Penelope Hobhouse

Publisher:

Published: 1997-07

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780711211889

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This journal introduces each month with a key concept to guide gardeners.his record book features the 12 Hobhouse "rules" for good gardening, theirst of which is to keep personal notes of gardens visited, of plants seennd plants bought, of setbacks as well as successes.;She reminds gardeners ofhe pleasures as well as the value of recording seasonal changes in thearden, of noting tasks accomplished and jobs to be done. Photographs show aide range of successful gardens, from Butterstream in Ireland to West Deann Sussex and Penelope Hobhouse's own garden in Dorset. Penelope Hobhouse ishe author of "Colour in Your Garden", "Garden Style", "The Country Gardener",Flower Gardens" and "Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening".