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Lessons from the great gardeners : forty gardening icons and what they teach us / Matthew Biggs.
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Title:Lessons from the great gardeners : forty gardening icons and what they teach us / Matthew Biggs.
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Author/Creator:Biggs, Matthew, author.
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Published/Created:Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
©2016
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) Great ReadsWhere is this?
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Call Number: SB451 .B554 2016
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Number of Items:1
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Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) Great ReadsWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Gardeners--Biography.
Gardening--History.
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Genre/Form: Biographies.
History.
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Description:224 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Summary:"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 groundbreaking botanists, nurserymen, and tillers of earth, men and women whose passion, innovation, and green thumbs endure in the formal landscapes and vegetable patches of today. Entries for each gardening great highlight their iconic plants and garden designs, revealing both the gardeners own influences and the seeds sometimes literal that they sowed for gardens yet to sprout. From Andre Le Notre in seventeenth-century France, who drew on his training as an architect and hydraulic engineer to bring the topiary form to Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles, to the work of High Line and Lurie Garden designer Piet Oudolf, and Thomas Jefferson s advice on creating protected garden microclimates for help growing early crops and tender fruit like figs (with peas, a Jefferson favorite), "Lessons from the Great Gardeners" is a resource as rich as the soil from which it springs. Featuring lush illustrations harvested from the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society, as well as sections on a dozen international gardens that showcase the lessons of the greats, this homage to the love of good, clean dirt is sure to inspire readers to get out in the sun and dig." -- Provided by publisher.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780226369488 (cloth : alk. paper)
022636948X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226369518 (e-book)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: Somai
1480
1525
Japan
Wang Xianchen
b. 1500s
China
Andre Le Notre
1613
1700
France
Philip Miller
1691
1771
United Kingdom
Thomas Jefferson
1743
1826
United States
Sir Joseph Paxton
1803
1865
United Kingdom
James Veitch, Jr.
1815
1869
United Kingdom
Sir Thomas Hanbury
1832
1907
United Kingdom
William Robinson
1838
1935
United Kingdom
Claude Monet
1840
1926
France
Gertrude Jekyll
1843
1932
United Kingdom
Henry E. Huntington
1850
1927
United States
Ellen Willmott
1858
1934
United Kingdom
Edward Augustus Bowles
1865
1954
United Kingdom
Pierre S. du Pont
1870
1954
United States
Lawrence Johnston
1871
1958
United Kingdom
Beatrix Farrand
1872
1959
United States
Henry Duncan McLaren
1879
1953
United Kingdom
Rae Selling Berry
1880
1976
United States
Sir Frederick Stern
1884
1967
United Kingdom
Jacques Majorelle
1886
1962
Africa
Madame Ganna Walska
1887
1984
United States
Vita Sackville
West
1892
1962
United Kingdom
Margery Fish
1892
1969
United Kingdom
Beatrix Havergal
1901
1980
United Kingdom
Mildred Blandy
1905
1984
Portugal
Roberto Burle Marx
1909
1994
South America
Princess Lelia Caetani
1913
1977
Italy
Princess Greta Sturdza
1915
2009
France
Carl Ferris Miller (Min Pyong-gal)
1921
2002
South Korea
Christopher Lloyd
1921
2006
United Kingdom
Beth Chatto
b. 1923
United Kingdom
Geoffrey Smith
1928
2009
United Kingdom
Penelope Hobhouse
b. 1929
United Kingdom
Bev McConnell
b. 1931
New Zealand
Geoff Hamilton
1936
1996
United Kingdom
Piet Oudolf
b. 1944
Netherlands
Jeremy Francis
b. 1951
Australia
Will Giles
b. 1951
United Kingdom
Dan Hinkley
b. 1953
United States.