I've found one other title - THE ENGLISH GARDEN _ A SOCIAL HISTORY, by Charles Quest-Ritson.I've only read the preface so far, and he does make...
Sorry...it wasn't quite intended as a joke when I started it...actually I didn't quite start it, I started a thread about gardening books, one of...
I love knitting too! I haven't yet worked out how to upload pics here, but... I mainly do Fair Isle and Shetland; including Shetland Lace. I did a...
Well yes, I've always understood this to be the case!! :D Although of course fashions change in gardening, like everything else... The other day...
Found a few reviews of Hoyles' book, mostly favourable, and pointing out that it's an aspect of gardening that has hardly been touched on - and...
Oh, I am so envious! I love cats.....
Why would you want senior citizen concessions - the RHS is a Charity, for �£40 odd pounds a year, you get free entry to their gardens, and on...
Exactly...it matters that you love your plants and nurture them. [img]
Wow! Then what happened? :D
[/b]</font> Ooh....what did he do?? I am wondering if I'll be allowed to join Hampstead Horticultural Society...but also if I actually WANT to...
Went to Homebase this morning - it had been pouring with rain all morning, but I ended up rescuing a courgette pot and a chive pot because they...
Yes, what makes them our betters? They are richer?? Does that make them BETTER or just richer?? And how did they - or their families - acquire...
I am in complete agreement here - I am a GARDENER, not a garden designer! I had thought about the topic before I read Hoyles' book, but not in...
I think if I ever do write a follow-up to Hoyle's book, I shall investigate this question!
RIGHT!! The point is that for most of history the ones who CARE about the plants and nurture them are not always the same as those who PROFIT from...
this is true...if you're a member you get priority booking for Chelsea and other flower shows, and you get their journal, which does sometimes...
yes, me...sorry and all that! Actually it always gets a bit of laugh from the comrades when we're discussing environmental issues!
And have it designed by Capability Brown - if necessary moving entire villages and enclosing the land of the common people if it interrupts my view.
I really started thinking about this seriously when I lived in Leeds, and visited various Stately Homes in Yorkshire. Once in Harewood House I...
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