The Cottage Garden - Couverture souple

Way, Twigs

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 074780818X ISBN 13 : 9780747808183

Editeur : Shire Publications, 2011

Synopsis

A charming introduction to the history, style, planting and morality of that most English creation, 'The Cottage Garden'.

Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combined beauty and utility, pride and productivity. But what were they used for in reality, beyond their immortalisation in images of thatched cottages with floral borders and ducks on the path?

This slim volume explores the many uses of the garden throughout England's history, including
- keeping food on the table
- as a status symbol and blaze of colour
- their philosophical and moral role in society: the rural cottager was never far from the mind of the Victorian middle classes, whether as a shining example to the indigent urban poor or as an aesthetic and social ideal of a utopian 'merrie England'.

The Cottage Garden is the history of this varied and important phenomenon and its myriad concepts and incarnations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Twigs Way is a professional landscape and garden historian. She divides her time between research and consultancy, giving lectures, talks and writing books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shire Publications
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074780818X
• ISBN 13: 9780747808183
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Bloomsbury Publishing Ireland Limited, Bloomsbury Publishing Ireland Limited; productsafety@bloomsbury.com; ; 29 Earlsfort Terrace; Dublin 2; D02 AY28; Irlande