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This is a celebration of the beauties and possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle, Auricula, Snapdragon, Spanish Iris and Corydalis, and all the other plants that enliven and exalt the gardens of England. Gertrude Jekyll gives good advice on how to make a garden a place of repose and pleasure. Writing with enthusiasm on the colours and scents of flowers, on the frustrations (and delights) of weeding and on the debasing influence of flower shows, she is practical, wise and entertaining in equal measure. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780141190877
eBay Product ID (ePID)86650246
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Beauties of a Cottage Garden
Number of Pages96 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicGardening, Local Interest
AuthorGertrude Jekyll
Book SeriesPenguin English Journeys
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height181 mm
Item Weight62 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorGertrude Jekyll