Lady Gardeners : Seeds, Roots, Propagation, from England to the Wider World / edited by Francesca Orestano and Michael Vickers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orestano, Francesca, editor.

Vickers, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--History.

Gardening.

Women gardeners--History.

Women gardeners.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

The Lady Gardeners are those women who, from the eighteenth century to the present day, have been working in a garden, from imagining and creating it, to sowing, planting, pruning, painting and photographing plants, and moving from garden design to more urgent themes such as landscape conservation and environmental issues.

Contents:

Front Matter(pp. )

Table of Contents(pp. i-vi)

Introduction: Lady Gardeners, from England to the wider world(pp. vii-xiv)

Chapter 1 The Eighteenth Century: three princesses at Kew Gardens(pp. 1-15)

Chapter 2 Dorothy Wordsworth: a Romantic garden in the Lake District(pp. 16-25)

Chapter 3 Jane Loudon, notes on gardening for Victorian ladies(pp. 26-38)

Chapter 4 Marianne North, the world is a garden to paint(pp. 39-51)

Chapter 5 Children and Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll: training young gardeners(pp. 52-64)

Chapter 6 Beatrix Potter, playful and scientific illustrations. From Peter Rabbit to landscape conservation(pp. 65-75)

Chapter 7 Garden and Landscape in North America: Beatrix Farrand's inscription of Eden in the wilderness of the New World(pp. 76-87)

Chapter 8 Vita Sackville-West: a garden that looks like home, from Knole to Sissinghurst(pp. 88-99)

Chapter 9 Edna Walling and her gardening work, or 'the happiest days of my life'(pp. 100-113)

Chapter 10 History, design, vision: Sylvia Crowe(pp. 114-124)

Chapter 11 The adventure of an exotic species: Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard(pp. 125-136)

Chapter 12 Rosemary Verey: re-reading English history in the modern garden(pp. 137-150)

Chapter 13 Beth Chatto: going along with the environment, or 'the right plant for the right place'(pp. 151-164).

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ISBN:

1-80327-590-1