Lessons from the Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us

by Matthew Biggs

Book Overview

Like heirloom seeds and grafts from trees, advice from great gardeners handed down through the centuries has shaped the science and art of gardens across the globe. Spanning gardeners from fifteenth-century Japan to the contemporary United States, Lessons from the Great Gardeners profiles forty groundbreaking botanists, nurserymen, and tillers of earth, men and women whose passion, innovation, and green thumbs endure in the formal landscapes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022636948X
• ISBN13: 9780226369488
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.0"