From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today’s gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened. Women gardeners have grown vegetables for their kitchens and herbs for their medicine cupboards. They have been footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. They taught young women about gardening twenty-five years before women’s horticultural schools officially existed. And their influence on the style of our gardens, frequently unacknowledged, survives to the present day.
From these triumphs to the battles fought against male-dominated institutions, from the horticultural pioneers to the bringers of change in society’s attitudes, this book is a celebration of the best of the species -- gardening women.
- ‘An authoritative writer . . . it is about time that women gardeners received the generous tribute awarded to them by Horwood’s splendid book . . . lively, superbly researched and highly enjoyable' LITERARY REVIEW
- 'Beautifully structured and cogently written, GARDENING WOMEN is as rich, full and lasting as potpourri. Neither gardens, nor women, will seem quite the same again' THE TIMES
Hardback:
£20.00
Published 06/05/2010