Gardening Across the Pond: Anglo-American Exchanges from the Settlers in Virginia to Prairie Gardens in England

by Richard Bisgrove

Book Overview

For four hundred years there has been a special relationship between Britain and what is now the United States of America in many aspects of life, not least in gardening. From the early settlers taking their familiar English plants to the New World and early plant-hunters bringing back exciting new plants for English gardens to the twenty-first-century English infatuation with "prairie gardening," ideas and plants have been crossing and re-crossing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910258245
• ISBN13: 9781910258248
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Pimpernel Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.2"