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Gardening Women

Dr Catherine Horwood

From Shelf: Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries (A personal list of further reading)

* An inspirational social history of women's involvement with plants and gardening over the centuries

From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today's gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened. Women gardeners have grown vegetables for their kitchens and herbs for their medicine cupboards. They have been footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. They taught young women about gardening twenty-five years before women's horticultural schools officially existed. And their influence on the style of our gardens, frequently unacknowledged, survives to the present day.From these triumphs to the battles fought against male-dominated institutions, from the horticultural pioneers to the bringers of change in society's attitudes, this book is a celebration of the best of the species -- gardening women.

Format:
Hardback
Pages:
448
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:
9781844084630
Published Date:
6/5/2010
Dimensions:
165mm x 218mm x 39mm
Weight:
758g
Category:
Gardening

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