Cottage Garden Flowers

By Margery Fish

Book Overview

A classic book that's still THE go-to guide for today's gardeners
Margery Fish's advice and enthusiasm for horticulture has stood the test of time, and her definitive 1960s gardening book is still essential for anyone who wants to create a cottage garden. In her imaginative adaption of the traditional style, Fish brings together old-fashioned and contemporary plants--including Astrantia, columbines, daffodils, daisies, Dianthus, foxgloves, hollyhocks, Japonica, old roses, Phlox, Primula, and Virburnum.

This edition includes a foreword by Graham Rice, the widely published gardening author and the former London Evening Standard gardening correspondent. Rice has also reviewed the plant names in the original text, providing a plant name section at the back of the book so readers can identify current plants from the Latin names within the text.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184994363X
• ISBN13: 9781849943635
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Batsford
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Lovely book ok

This seems to be an excellent book , I looked forward to using as a reference on old fashioned flowers, however the type is so small as to be impossible to read

Lovely

I borrowed this book from the library and would love a copy of it. Reading this book is like sitting with a favourite Aunt discussing gardening. Her descriptions of flowers are at times hilarious and always filled with useful information. She lists a lot of the "old" flowers. The ones to watch for and beg from any gardener who might be willing to part with them.