Lady Gardeners : : Seeds, Roots, Propagation, from England to the Wider World.

• VerfasserIn: Orestano, Francesca.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Vickers, Michael.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 pages)

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.

Table of 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).