Home and Garden

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-03720-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Life Sciences

Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), the distinguished and influential garden designer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, originally trained as an artist but later turned her hand to craftwork, gardening, and plant collecting and breeding. During her career she collaborated with distinguished architects such as Sir Edwin Lutyens and reached a popular audience through the publication of articles in newspapers and magazines such as William Robinson's The Garden. Jekyll's second book, first published in 1890, is a collection of her advice and reflections on a range of topics, particularly those relating to her own home, Munstead Wood. It contains chapters on particular plants, and gives guidance on projects such as building rock gardens, as well as more idiosyncratic pieces on her cats, or the importance of one's own tools. Jekyll's informal tone and the range of topics discussed make this a fascinating work of social and gardening history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jekyll, Gertrude

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Gartenbau

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. How the house was built
2. A wood ramble in April
3. A garden of wall-flowers
4. Trees and lanes
5. Wild honeysuckle
6. Brier roses
7. Midsummer
8. Roses and lilies
9. Large rock-gardens
10. Small rock-gardens
11. The workshop
12. The kinship of common tools
13. Cut flowers
14. Conservatories
15. The making of pot-pourri
16. Plants for poor soil
17. Gardening for short tenancies
18. Some names of plants
19. Wild ferns
20. The kitchen garden
21. The home pussies
22. Things worth doing
23. Life in the hut
Index.