Gardeners: Encounters with Exceptional People

Author:   Diana Ross ,  Howard Sooley
Publisher:   Quarto Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9780711228962


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   13 November 2008
Format:   Hardback
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Gardening writer Diana Ross visits twenty gardens and interviews their owners, including Roy Lancaster, Thomas Pakenham, Lady Salisbury, Beth Chatto and James Lovelock. She learns about their relationship with plants, who and what have inspired them, and how they approach the pleasures and challenges of garden making. Some are famous horticulturalists and designers, others have a more tangential relationship with gardening. The full list of gardeners is: Roy RobertsTony Hall Roy Lancaster Tony Schilling Christian LambThomas Pakenham Hugh JohnsonGeoffrey Dutton Lady Salisbury Penelope LivelyBeth Chatto Elizabeth Jane Howard Donald WatererAnthea Gibson Dan Pearson Kim Wilkie Ronald Blythe Richard Mabey James LovelockLucinda Lambton 'She brings a lovely sense of discovery to each of her victims' Hugh Johnson

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Author:   Diana Ross ,  Howard Sooley
Publisher:   Quarto Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Frances Lincoln
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 20.10cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780711228962


ISBN 10:   0711228965
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   13 November 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Ross has chosen her subjects well. They have one thing in common: they are all exceptional. Her collection is absorbing reading. Waterstone's Books Quarterly


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Diana Ross is an amateur gardener who turned her hand to writing relatively recently. She began writing for Hortus in 1995, and in 2000 began her series of interviews with gardeners.

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