For anyone who has ever put on a pair of gloves, picked up a shovel, and gone into a garden in search of flowers, beauty, and inspiration, just open this book. You'll soon find out why leaves change color, who invented the flame-throwing weeder, why the Victorians prevented women from owning orchids, what happened when David Niven found Greta Garbo swimming naked in a pool, what Saffron Walden is famous for, and where the practice of kissing under mistletoe originated. All that, and over 500 more gardening gobbets, botanical amusements, and horticultural ha-has make this book a must for any garden-lover.
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Ever wonder what happens to the 36,000 tennis balls used at the annual Wimbledon championships? Or what was on the menu at Henry IV’s coronation? Would you like to know how to master the Japanese art of packing a rucksack? Or how to say hello in 20 different languages? The delightfully eclectic, exceedingly collectable volumes in the Companion Series are bursting with useful trivia and quirky facts to amuse and amaze. Pleasingly designed, eminently browsable, downright addictive.
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Vicky Bamforth is a gardener and environmental writer. She is based in London.
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George Acland was the first person to commercially manufacture jute garden twine, in Dundee, Scotland in 1828. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Blue Peter, Cox's Orange Pippin, Royal Horticultural Society, South America, Chelsea Physic Garden, Percy Thrower, Duke of Devonshire, Geoff Hamilton, Joseph Paxton, Nek Chand, Prince Charles, The Times, William Shakespeare, Eden Project, Ground Force, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Royal Botanical Gardens New!
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George Acland was the first person to commercially manufacture jute garden twine, in Dundee, Scotland in 1828. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Blue Peter, Cox's Orange Pippin, Royal Horticultural Society, South America, Chelsea Physic Garden, Percy Thrower, Duke of Devonshire, Geoff Hamilton, Joseph Paxton, Nek Chand, Prince Charles, The Times, William Shakespeare, Eden Project, Ground Force, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Royal Botanical Gardens New!
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- The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, Book 1) by Paul Scott on page 94, and Back Matter
- The Well-Tempered Garden (Horticulture Garden Classic) by Christopher Lloyd on page 57, and Back Matter
- Color Your Garden: The Royal Horticultural Society (Rhs) by Jill Billington on page 45, and page 128
- Gnomes and Gardens by Alan Melville on page 82, and Back Matter
- The Tale of Johnny Town-mouse (Potter) by Beatrix Potter on page 48, and Back Matter
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