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A Miscellany for Garden-Lovers - Facts and folklore through the ages

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 01.07.2025

Description

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A beautiful gift book filled with charming illustrations, it will take you through the facts and folklore of gardening, its history and curiosities.

List of contents










Foreword

Early Garden Tools
Inverting the Sod
Draining Soil
Conserving Moisture in Soil
Sowing Seeds
Early Plant Hunters
Plant Folklore
Weather Folklore
Pest and Disease Folklore
The World of Garden Gnomes
Down on the Farm
Early Lawn
Healing Gardens

Index
About the author
Other titles in the series


About the author

David Squire has a lifetime’s experience with plants and bees. He studied botany and gardening at the Hertfordshire College of Horticulture and at RHS Garden Wisley, where he gained the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He also was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants. David’s passionate interest in native plants ranges from eating and survival to their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.

Throughout his gardening and journalist career, David has written more than eighty books on plants, gardening and insects, as well as dogs and self-sufficiency, including keeping chickens and honey bees. David’s books have been sold in twenty countries and The Scented Garden won the Garden Writer’s of America ’Quill and Trowel’ award.

Product details

Authors David Squire, Squire David
Publisher Bloomsbury
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 01.07.2025
 
EAN 9781399427517
ISBN 978-1-3994-2751-7
No. of pages 144
Dimensions 126 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
Weight 180 g
Illustrations Beautifully designed with more than 100 black and white illustrations
Series Wise Words
Subjects Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias

Gardening, GARDENING / General, Folklore, myths & legends, Reference works, Miscellanies and compendia, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)

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