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The Cottage Garden (Shire Library)
Twigs Way
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Description for The Cottage Garden (Shire Library)
Paperback. Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combines beauty and utility, pride and productivity. Gardens did not just appeal to the senses, however: they played a philosophical and moral role in society, and thus in our social history. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 64 pages, 1 col. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBT; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 6. Weight in Grams: 164.
Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combined beauty and utility, pride and productivity. But what was the reality of the space immortalised in images of thatched cottages with floral borders and ducks on the path? For many the garden was crucial in keeping food on the table, for many simply a status symbol and blaze of colour; and gardens did not just appeal to the senses, but played a philosophical and moral role in society, and thus in our social history. Visions of the rural cottager were never far from the mind of the Victorian ... Read more
Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combined beauty and utility, pride and productivity. But what was the reality of the space immortalised in images of thatched cottages with floral borders and ducks on the path? For many the garden was crucial in keeping food on the table, for many simply a status symbol and blaze of colour; and gardens did not just appeal to the senses, but played a philosophical and moral role in society, and thus in our social history. Visions of the rural cottager were never far from the mind of the Victorian ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Shire Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747808183
SKU
V9780747808183
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Ref
99-7
About Twigs Way
Twigs Way is a garden historian and author who specialises in the social and political aspects of gardens and landscapes. Her other successful titles for Shire include Allotments, Garden Gnomes and Topiary.
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