Author: Heidi Howcroft
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ISBN: 9789995936952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Heidi Howcroft
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 1781011958
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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The English Garden is the universal measure of all things related to garden design. It is in the UK that the great garden designers live and work and where a major gardening movement has developed over the last few decades, influencing the rest of the world with its ideas and vision. This book introduces the “grandes dames” of contemporary English garden design and includes the great names of the garden world which have emerged since the 1950s, from Vita Sackville-West and Beth Chatto to Beatrix Havergal. It also presents outstanding women gardeners of the present-day who have likewise had a substantial influence on the development of contemporary garden design. Heidi Howcroft has discovered these women’s gardening secrets and writes sensitively and informatively about the individual women and their influence on the English country garden. The individual gardens' charm and design are captured in photos by Marianne Majerus.

Author: Francis Parkman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Heidi Howcroft
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770858749
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Mitchell Beazley an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group Limited"--Title page verso.

Author: André Wolff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Luxembourgers
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances)
Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Vincent Derkenne
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 232223706X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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André Dupont (1742-1817), is the first rose collector we know of. From 1785 onwards, he developed a passion for this beautiful genus, striving to have a garden where he could produce his Roses and observe them, in Paris, mainly in the surroundings of the Luxembourg Palace. He was not a horticulturist, so he immersed himself in the books lent to him by the National Museum of Natural History, met botanists, erudite men of the Enlightenment, gardeners and nurserymen. He thus became a good connoisseur of the Roses of his time, planning to write a monograph. At the beginning of the 19th century, the fashion for roses began, and André Dupont made a major contribution to this development; he was its forerunner. Madame Bonaparte, Empress Joséphine, brought him great fame, as she turned him into her main supplier of roses to embellish the greenhouses and flowerbeds of her estate in Malmaison. Renowned as the depositary of a complete École de Roses and of the oddities that nature provides them with, he gathered the very first herbarium exclusively devoted to Roses that we may still consult. In 1814, Dupont was at the end of his life and gave his collection to the Luxembourg Gardens. It was the beginning of the largest rose garden in the world that one could admire during most of the 19th century. He could thus observe the flowering of his beloved Roses for two or three more seasons, before passing away not far from them. While his botanist friends, or famous horticulturists, were collecting fame and honours, he ended his life in a boarding house in his neighbourhood, under the threat of a ban and ruined. His Roses, cheerful and good girls, sang his praises for a long time in front of the palace where their gardener had the honour to serve. Very little, too little, has been written about him. The main book of the present work, in French, brings together, for the first time, all the known elements of his life, from the period of the princely court he was a part of, to the 2nd Restoration, through the French Revolution and the 1st Empire. The present booklet proposes, in English, the essential parts of the original text. In the course of this story, André Dupont reveals his temper - sometimes a bit of an eccentric - so imbued with tenderness for his Roses!

Author: Klaus Gietinger
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788734491
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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On the tracks of the killers of Rosa Luxemburg The cold-blooded murder of revolutionary icons Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the pitched political battles of post-WWI Germany marks one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. No other political assassination inflamed popular passions and transformed Germany's political climate as that killing in the night of 15-16 January 1919 in front of the luxurious Hotel Eden. It not only cut short the lives of two of the country's most brilliant political leaders, but also inaugurated a series of further political assassinations designed to snuff out the revolutionary flame and, ultimately, pave the way for the ultra-reactionary forces that would take power in 1933. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of their untimely deaths, Klaus Gietinger has carefully reconstructed the events on that fateful night, digging deep into the archives to identify who exactly was responsible for the murder, and what forces in high-placed positions had a hand in facilitating it and protecting the culprits.

Author: American Rose Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rosaceae
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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