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Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-west and the Creation of a Garden

Product Description: From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century...read more

By Sarah Raven

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9781250060051 | St Martins Pr, November 4, 2014, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century.

There Is a Garden in the Mind: A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California

By Paul A. Lee

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Paperback:

9781583945599 | North Atlantic Books, March 12, 2013, cover price $19.95

Rosemary Verey: The Life and Lessons of a Legendary Gardener

By Barbara Paul Robinson

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9781567924503, titled "Rosemary Verey: The Life & Lessons of a Legendary Gardener" | David R Godine Pub, July 1, 2012, cover price $30.00

Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

By Gertrude Jekyll

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Hardcover:

9781851491964 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, May 1, 1982, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781108037204 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 22, 2011), cover price $44.99

Nature's Alchemist: John Parkinson, Herbalist to Charles I

Product Description: John Parkinson's beautiful Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris inspired Anna Parkinson from an early age. Who was this man who wrote so engagingly about plants? Was he a relation, as her father believed? And why was so little known about a man who was a key influence on the flowering of the English garden in the 17th century? Intrigued, she set out to find the answers...read more

By Anna Parkinson

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9780711227675 | 1 edition (Frances Lincoln Ltd, October 31, 2007), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: John Parkinson's beautiful Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris inspired Anna Parkinson from an early age.

The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen

Product Description: This is the definitive study of John Tradescant the elder and his son, two remarkable men who traveled to new or little-known landsÂ in search of botanical treasuresâJohn the elder to Russia, the Near East, and North Africa, and John the younger to the new colony of Virginia...read more

By Prudence Leith-Ross

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Hardcover:

9780720606126 | Kapitan Szabo Pub, June 1, 1984, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780720612462 | Revised edition (Peter Owen Ltd, June 15, 2005), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This is the definitive study of John Tradescant the elder and his son, two remarkable men who traveled to new or little-known landsÂ in search of botanical treasuresâJohn the elder to Russia, the Near East, and North Africa, and John the younger to the new colony of Virginia.

9780720610734 | Dufour Editions, June 1, 1999, cover price $41.95

Down the Garden Path

This entertaining gardening classic has been reissued to delight and beguile a new generation of readers with the joys of horticulture.

By Beverley Nichols

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9780881927108 | Timber Pr, December 13, 2004, cover price $24.95

9781870673228 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, June 1, 1998, cover price $29.50

9781851490073 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, July 1, 1986, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: This entertaining gardening classic has been reissued to delight and beguile a new generation of readers with the joys of horticulture.

The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild: The Forgotten Father of the Flower Garden

The pioneer of hybridization is chronicled in a fascinating portrait of the earliest days of genetic engineering as it describes the life and times of Thomas Fairchild, an eighteenth-century London nurseryman who created the first human-made hybrid in Europe. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Michael Leapman

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9780312276683 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, June 1, 2001), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A look at the earliest days of genetic engineering describes the life and times of Thomas Fairchild, an eighteenth-century London nurseryman who created the first human-made hybrid in Europe.

Beverly Nichols: A Life

Product Description: The reissuing of Beverley Nichols's delightful books by Timber Press has sparked renewed interest in this unjustly neglected writer. He burst onto the literary scene not long after his studies at Oxford, and his versatility was impressive; his successes included novels, plays, children's stories, biography, political commentary, and books on religion, travel, and gardening...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bryan Connon

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9780881924442 | Timber Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The reissuing of Beverley Nichols's delightful books by Timber Press has sparked renewed interest in this unjustly neglected writer.

Sunlight on the Lawn

Product Description: Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his rundown Georgian mansion and its garden. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Beverley Nichols

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9780881924671 | Timber Pr, February 15, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his rundown Georgian mansion and its garden.

Laughter on the Stairs

A fictionalized account of the author's experiences in a sleepy British village, where he tends to the pleasures of gardening and garden writing after World War II (view table of contents)

By Beverley Nichols

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9780881924602 | Reprint edition (Timber Pr, August 15, 1998), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A fictionalized account of the author's experiences in a sleepy British village, where he tends to the pleasures of gardening and garden writing after World War II

Merry Hall

An unusual gardening book that discusses flowers and gardens in a non-fictional novel format, telling the story of a deserted garden that is transformed into a paradise

By Nichols Beverley and Beverley Nichols

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9780881924176 | Reissue edition (Timber Pr, March 30, 1998), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An unusual gardening book that discusses flowers and gardens in a non-fictional novel format, telling the story of a deserted garden that is transformed into a paradise

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9781604694680 | Timber Pr, March 30, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: First in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England.

The Garden Makers: The Great Tradition of Garden Design from 1600 to the Present Day

Lavishly illustrated, THE GARDEN MAKERS profiles more than seventy gardeners, profesional and amateur, from Frederick Law Olmsted to Vita Sackville-West

By George Plumptre

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9780679430148 | Random House Inc, October 1, 1994, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Lavishly illustrated, THE GARDEN MAKERS profiles more than seventy gardeners, profesional and amateur, from Frederick Law Olmsted to Vita Sackville-West

Paperback:

9781857932829 | Reprint edition (Trafalgar Square, July 1, 1997), cover price $27.50

All My Edens: A Gardener's Memoir

Product Description: In an appealing narrative style reminiscent of the writings of M.F.K. Fisher and Vita Sackville-West, this beguiling memoir takes readers on a stroll through the many gardens which acclaimed writer Pat Welsh has cultivated and loved...read more

By Pat Welsh

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9780811809047 | Chronicle Books Llc, April 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In an appealing narrative style reminiscent of the writings of M.

Passionate Gardener

Product Description: Sm Quarto, 1990, PP.128, The Gardeners And What Their Garden Means To Them. The Famous And Not So Such As Mary Keen, Beth Chatto, Germaine Greer, John Mortimer, Dana Wynter, Terence Conran, And Others From The Past

By Miranda Innes (editor)

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9780943955247 | Trafalgar Square Pub, October 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Sm Quarto, 1990, PP.

The Englishman's Garden

Thirty-three gardens of exceptional merit, quality, and beauty are described by their owners, professional and nonprofessional gardeners, recounting the planning and maintenance of the garden in detail

By Lees-Milne (editor) and Rosemary Verey (editor)

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9780879234560 | David R Godine Pub, March 1, 1983, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Thirty-three gardens of exceptional merit, quality, and beauty are described by their owners, professional and nonprofessional gardeners, recounting the planning and maintenance of the garden in detail

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