Roy Lancaster - My Life with Plants

A world renowned plantsman and Vice President of the RHS, not to mention a presenter on BBC TV "Gardener's World" and panellist on Radio 4's "Gardener's Question Time", Roy Lancaster tells the story of his adventures with plants in "A Plantsman's Life".

About the author

Born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1937, Roy’s earliest recollection of garden plants were the dahlias, chrysanthemums and roses grown by his father in his childhood garden. He began his gardening with Bolton Parks Dept aged 15. Then a two-year stint as a national serviceman with HM Forces in Malaya enriched his experience of tropical plants and this along with a 3-month plant collecting expedition to Nepal in 1971 strengthened his love for the world’s high places and their plants. Since then he has continued to travel at every opportunity around the world without however, neglecting his love for British gardens and native flora.

 

 

Summary

Celebrated plantsman Roy Lancaster's chance find of a Mexican tobacco plant in a local allotment sowed the seeds of his future career. In this, the story of his life with plants, we hear about his experiences at home and abroad and the plants, insects, birds and people he met along the way.

Product details

• Authors: Roy Lancaster, Lancaster Roy
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780993389252
• ISBN: 978-0-9933892-5-2
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 1039 g
• Illustrations: 200 photographs, farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Nature > Garden; GARDENING / General, Memoirs, Gardening: plants, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs