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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

This life of Reginald Farrer offers a window on the opulence and drama of Edwardian horticulture. "Half-poet, half-botanist", as Vita Sackville West described him, he was active during the last great age of plant-hunters, inspiring generations of gardeners with a love of flowers.

A biography of Renaissance poet and courtier, Thomas Wyatt.

A hundred years ago there was a pronounced change in the direction of British gardening. The garden was transformed from a plaything for the rich to a democratic exercise, a hobby for the millions. Few figures were more central to and prominent in this transition than eccentric Reginald Farrer, whose passion for alpines would put a rockery in the backyards of countless enthusiasts and whose adventures in Tibet and China collecting elusive and ...