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Inspiration for stunning planting for your garden throughout the year from one of todays most globally-inspiring and much-loved garden writers and author of global bestseller The Tulip First published in 2004, and now fully revised and updated, in this inspirational book, acclaimed bestselling author Anna Pavord selects 60 star plants from iris to hostas and pairs each with two perfect partners: shrubs, herbaceous perennials, bulbs, and annu...

A revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling classic Anna Pavord's now classic, internationally bestselling sensation, The Tulip, is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has driven men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip from a wild flower of the Asian steppes to the worldwide phenomenon it is today. No other flower carries so much baggage, i...

A twentieth anniversary edition of the classic, featuring new material by the author. Anna Pavord's internationally bestselling sensation, The Tulip, is the story of a flower that has driven men mad. Greed, desire, anguish, and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into a worldwide phenomenon. Today, the United States alone imports three thousand million tulip bulbs each year. No other flower has ever carried so m...

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Both a history and travel book, this is a meditation on the nature of the British landscape, opening in the 18th century and encompassing the early travel guides, the paintings of Constable and Turner, the poetry and prose of Coleridge and Hardy. Nature writing which aims to reshape the way we think about our country.

Paperback edition of the meditation on the nature of the British landscape, which mixes history and travel writing. Explores the different ways in which we have, through the ages, responded to the land, and how it has been managed and farmed. From the author of "The Tulip, The Naming Of Names" and "The Curious Gardener". 'Intensely enjoyable' Lucy Lethbridge, "Observer

In "The Curious Gardener, " Anna Pavord brings together in 12 chapters - one from each month of the year - 72 pieces on all aspects of gardening. From what to do in each month and how to get the best from flowers, plants, herbs, fruit and vegetables, through reflections on the weather, soil, the English landscape and favourite old gardening clothes, to office greenery, spring in New York, waterfalls, Derek Jarman and garden design, Anna Pavord...

A complete history of the tulip and its commercial cultivation, which describes, in great detail, how a wild flower of the Asian steppes has become something of a world-wide horticultural phenomenon. Taking us from Asia Minor through India, Russia and the Ottoman Empire, this is a story which charts political upheaval, illuminates social behaviour, and describes how the tulip became a symbol in times of religious persecution. On a more rigorou...