The Gardener's Pocket Companion
Author(s): Vicky Bamforth
This attractive, handy pocket book is a treasure trove of gardening facts and curiosities, notes and quotes. Packed with useful and fascinating information, "The Gardener's Pocket Companion" will let you into many secrets, including how Joseph Paxton, designer of Crystal Palace and landscape gardener extraordinaire, rose from poverty to become a multi-millionaire, where London's hidden gardens are located, which tree provided sixteenth-century Europeans with a cure for venereal disease, how to perform the soil fist test to determine soil type, and what Nelson Mandela grew in his prison garden.
Product Information
Vicky Bamforth is a gardener and environmental writer. She is based in London.
General Fields
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- : Anova Books
- : Pavilion Books
- : 0.161
- : 16 March 2008
- : 160mm X 110mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Vicky Bamforth
- : Hardback
- : 4-Aug
- : 635
- : 160
- : Black & white illustrations throughout