Of Rhubarb and Roses: The Telegraph Book of the Garden (Telegraph Books)

ISBN 10: 1845137744 / ISBN 13: 9781845137748

Published by Aurum Press Ltd, 2013

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Of Rhubarb and Roses: The Telegraph Book of the Garden (Telegraph Books)
• Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845137744
• ISBN 13: 9781845137748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used; Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The Telegraph has long enjoyed the closest association with gardeners. Indeed, as the newspaper of choice for the counties and the shires, it revels in the glory and variety of Britain's horticultural heritage, whether celebrating the most renowned gardens, like Great Dixter, or extolling the tart virtues of rhubarb. For gardening spans a vast spectrum. Variously hobby, art form, industry and, on occasion, cause of social unrest, it encompasses the annual spectacle of the Chelsea Flower Show, Vita Sackville-West's legendary White Garden at Sissinghurst, and the pursuit of prize-winning pumpkins. And while the Telegraph's weekend supplements might publish advice on growing asparagus or figs, the letters pages bristle with feuds and controversies at the RHS. Whatever form it takes, few things could be more central to the world of the Telegraph reader than the garden. Which is why the paper has always attracted the best writers on the subject: from the experts of today, such as Stephen Lacey, Mary Keen, Sarah Raven and Bunny Guinness, through great sages of yesteryear, like Fred Whitsey, Denis Wood and Rosemary Verey, to the more esoteric musings of Germaine Greer, Roy Strong and W. F. Deedes. All are collected here in this compendious and endlessly fascinating anthology, compiled by eminent green-fingered scribe Tim Richardson. As varied and colourful as a traditional herbaceous border at the height of summer, Of Rhubarb and Roses is the perfect book for an afternoon's reading in a deckchair, as the shadows lengthen across that newly mown lawn.

About the Author

Tim Richardson is a writer and historian, a garden columnist in the Daily Telegraph and the author of many books, including English Gardens in the Twentieth Century, The Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape Garden, Avant Gardeners and The New English Garden. He is a trustee of the Garden History Society, sits on the National Trust's gardens advisory panel and wrote Oxford University's first garden history course. Recently appointed professor of landscape art at Vienna University (Arts), he lives in London, where he is the founder-director of the Chelsea Fringe Festival.