The Origin of Plants: The People and Plants That Have Shaped Britain's Garden History
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (521 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1903919401 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 449 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Valerie Fletcher Adolph said First rate history of plants. This is an extensively researched and well-written book that investigates how garden plants arrived in England. The writer, a respected garden historian and fellow of the Linnean Society, has chosen to divide her material into centuries. She sets the scene with a look at Roman and Anglo-Saxon approaches to gardening and plants, then gets into more detail about plant immigrants, starting with the first century of the second millennium.To put . Happy said Five Stars. thankyou
In doing so, Campbell-Culver reveals the traditional uses of plants among commoners and kings, and recounts the myriad ways plants were conveyed from distant lands. Antique prints and paintings, colorful photographs, and botanical illustrations enrich tales of individuals who wrote about, studied, and went hunting far and wide in the name of plants. With A.D. All rights reserved. Important dates in history provide a context to open each chapter, while a listing of plant introductions brings each to a close. Contemplating the panoply of flora gracing British gardens today, Campbell-Culver proceeds to retrace the origins of countless ornamental and edible plants attributable to a Roman heritage, and examines comprehensively the movement of plants from foreign shores. 1000 as a starting point, Campbell-Culver culls material from across the centuries to the present, melding fact-filled narrative with fascinating legends and liv
A thousand years ago, there were only a few hundred plants indigenous to the British Isles. Maggie Campbell-Culver has researched the provenance and often strange histories of many of these thousands of species, as well as the intriguing stories of the people behind them. Over the past millennium, however, countless seeds, bulbs, and cuttings have been brought into Britaindeliberately or unwittinglyby travelers, warriors, explorers, and plant hunters who introduced what are now considered common plantsrhododendrons from the Far East, gladioli from Africa, exotics like the monkey puzzle tree from Chile. Eur